Taken the decs down yet?

Done by DH whilst DD and I trudged around Bath in the pouring rain- at least few people about!
All clean and tidy now, goldengirl's comment about changing furniture around sounds good ( DH def won't agree!)
Hopeless at colour schemes but getting fed up with magnolia, any suggestions very welcome! Bedroom definitely needs something doing to it this year - put 5 colour samples on wall 2 years ago....still don't know what colour [pretty useless emoticon]

Decorations down and I have spent some time sorting and labelling before they go in the loft - should be a doddle next year! (Bet I don't remember what the labelling means by then!)

Decorations down - except for fairy lights in the kitchen which lift my spirits in the morning. Have yet to wash the kitchen floor after an influx of family with little people yesterday. Now looking to do a bit of decluttering and possibly buying some new curtains - and even change some furniture around. Have bought some mags for ideas

All done this morning ready for a good clean tomorrow. Like the idea of fresh flowers hilda Must do that too.

rosiedee we are much like you all down now, cleaned through and we start the New Year afresh- popping into town for some fresh flowers now.
Happy New Year.

Family visiting today so I've left mine up. I'll put everything away when they have gone.
For a few days after the tree etc. is put away my house looks really empty!

The wind down starts today. DS and family return home this evening. Today will be spent packing, retrieving toys and presents from under every item of furniture we own, clothing recovered from the utility room. They are taking us out to the local Italian for lunch to say thank you for our hospitality.

Once they have gone, DH and I will relax among the detritus this evening and tomorrow the clean and tidy will start. By the time we go to France on Monday evening, everything will be back to normal. The trees will have been taken to the tip and I am crossing fingers that the decorations will be back in the loft.

They are like the tart after the party. We're done!

Everything came down this morning, had a good clean and dust and now we're back to normal - whatever that may be. Always feel that it puts the old year behind us and we can start afresh in the new year.
NY Day always feels like a Sunday, don't know why, so we're having a roast for tea and then we'll veg in front of the television and watch mindless things that we recorded over Christmas.
Happy New Year to all!!

granjura, DD would have them up 365 days of the year, bless her.
It's just that I'm feeling restless, been for walk, meal prepared, fed up with TV etc...... would hate to think decorations feel unwanted !

why not just wait for a couple of days loopylou-what difference would it make- and they may feel very unwelcome if you clean around them.

Planned to take everything down and give the house a good clean, but DD has been poorly and is still here - when I told her what I planned she was horrified so they'll stay up for another day or two and I'll clean around them.

Glad to hear many put up decorations up as late as poss and keep till 12th day- and I am a furiner.

Oh not till 12th night-6th January when every bit of holly, ivy, fir and mistletoe MUST leave the house and the deccies be stored away Any earlier, or worse still, later, and my Irish grandmother wil come back to haunt me! The number of superstitions she has bequeathed me is amazing. Stirring the Christmas pudding you have to wish. You also wish when you eat the first mince pie of the year. But leaving your deccies up too late brings gloom and misery!

Decs up as close to 24th December as I can leave it and down on 3 Jan as 4th is DHs birthday and he likes a bit of space for his cards! Would be driving me bonkers if they had been up since early December. I prefer to be traditional and stick to 12 days!

Alas, no longer Crafting. Switched off and stored away until next year

Twelfth night always and I prefer to dress the tree on Christmas Eve but we were away. The lovely house we stayed in had two trees up ,one an enormous one and the other In front of the hearth which we had to move so FC could come down the chimney. I transported an artificial tree from home to the holiday house in case they didn't have one and now have a spare.

12th night at our house

I love Christmas decorations and usually put mine up the first weekend in December and they don't come down till 12th night (except for the thing I forget to put away) It's always something different every year. Last year we were sitting at the dinner table in February when DH said "Do you realise we have 2 gold bells hanging on the ceiling lamp"

Agus just wondering, is your bush still illuminated?

Mine went up on 18 Dec and came down today.
It also helps to separate the Christmas festivities from the birthday of our dgs who is 4 today.

Mine have been up since 1st December and will stay firmly in place until 12th night, love all the colour and sparkle.

Still munching the mince pies here. How can We do that without the decs up?!

No, I love the Christmas decorations and ours will stay in place until 6 January when they'll be careful packed away, ready for their appearance next year.

I always take mine down on New Years eve so that I can clean the room to welcome in the New Year.

I have just the cards and a 9-foot Christmas tree which is in one of those stands that you fill with water so it's still green and no needles are falling. Having not been well for the last few days, I have no desire to struggle with undressing it, but I will change the doorbell chime back to "ding-dong" from the quick blast of Jingle Bells that it is currently set to. That will disappoint the grandchildren, but it's been driving me insane.