Putting away Christmas- when do you do yours?

12th night here

Just finished and packed up - including the guest bedding and towels. I love the fresh, airy feeling and it seems like the house is twice the size now! Very tired, though!

Took ours down this morning between downpours, we had lights all around the bungalow, they’re now hanging in the greenhouse to dry.
All inside decorations are away in boxes and back in the loft. The robot vacuum has kindly picked up any stray bits of tinsel in the living room.
Our living wreath will stay on the front door till twelfth night.

Took ours down this morning . DH has put them back in the loft. We don't decorate outside ,and have a fibre optic tree, so it didn't take long .

I have just finished deChristmassing here and DH has taken the 2 boxes (one decorations and one tree) to the garage. I have dusted and hoovered and cut next year's tags from Christmas cards. These are in a Christmassy box in the office.
We usually only decorate one room and so it doesn't take long.
I'm exhausted by the effort that some of you go to.

I was always told that the decorations should come down before Twelfth Night so I always take them down the day before. I love them and hate the sudden bare look when they’re taken down. Fortunately we don’t have any neighbours who go in for garish outdoor decorations, we all just have lit trees and door wreaths.

We're starting to pack things away today. We have to do it over a few days, as we have lots of decorations out, and would never get it done in time if we left everything til the 5th.

Progress will be slower than usual, as I am suffering with a bad back, so MrLP will be going up the ladders, and fetching the storage bags and boxes down from the loft. I shall direct operations!

The outside lights will not be turned on after the 5th, but will have to stay in place until the next weekend, when MrLP will have time to take them down.

The room tree ( a real one ) will be the last thing to be taken down , and then will sit in the garden until Saturday 8th, when the scouts come to collect it. The trees are shredded for garden mulch. We give a donation to scout funds, and don't have to make a trip to the tip. Win/win!

Take care, and Happy New Year everyone! xx

Today for me too, I took the cards down yesterday but left the tree and all the other decorations up for New Year’s Day. I don’t like the initial bare feeling once they’re down but soon get used to it, It will be good to get back to normal now it’s all over for another year. Once I’m tidy I might go and buy myself a nice bunch of fresh flowers.

Just took the tree down but I’m leaving the cards for another week because half of them arrive in January owing to our incredibly slow postage system.

All done and tidied away in new boxes.

Ours are coming down today.

Ours went yesterday, tree just has to be chopped up into garden recycling bin.

I usually take mine down on New Years Eve. It's a left over from when I was teaching and school started right after New Year. This year I'm a bit late. The tree, which was real, has gone back outside, but most of the other decorations are still up. I'll put them away today, but might leave the outside lights, which I love, a little longer.

Tomorrow I think, although we haven’t had much up this year as I have been poorly.

I took everything down today, put it all in the loft (cards in the recycling bin)

1st time i have taken allllll Christmas things down, away thrown, hoovered up dusted, cleaned, even the freezer has been defrosted ( dont ask )

So basically welcome 2022 to a clean, tidy, tidy, tidy house.

We leave the tree until 12th night. Everything else came down today.

12th night here.

I packed everything Christmassy away this morning

My tree is down, it was a real tree and it didn’t do well this year. By yesterday the branches were seriously droopy and the baubles kept dropping on the floor. I also have a Labrador pup who thought that was such good fun !!

Going this afternoon fed up with it all had too many worrying things happened over the christmas period I want to forget about it and move forward

Done it already, can't stand all the clutter of cards etc, would happily never have Xmas again, so over it

I’d left our cards fastened on the bannister rails but we said we’d take them down today. I guess our dog heard me say that.
This morning she was very quiet for a long time whilst I was busy in the kitchen. I went into the hall to find that she had jumped up and pulled off all the cards she could reach and shredded them very efficiently all over the hall and all the way up the stairs!
If I could just train her to pick up and bin stuff!!!

I'm always reluctant to take down the decorations and our tree is still looking great. No needle drop yet. What I won't miss is the gaudy outside lights across the road. Most of them are stuck behind a big white lump of a caravan. Not sure what is worse the caravan or the lights.

Whatever happened to tradition?