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Foxyferret

My neighbours decorate end of November and then remove everything on Boxing Day. Not being critical, each to their own.I don’t start until 15 December and they are there until twelfth night. I like the tradition as it reminds me of when I was a child.

Our are much the same. From the end of November the whole street is lit up throughout the night. On Boxing Day most of it disappears. We have less lights but they stay up from about a week before Christmas till 5th/6th January. Each to their own.

Not just you Bluebelle - I can't wait to get Christmas decorations down after Christmas - the freshness and tidiness of the house once its done really cheers me up. We leave outside lights up longer - usually until the batteries run out.
I love everything clear and organised for the new year.

I am a traditionalist so it will be twelvth night before mine go away. Mind you today has been a get all the washing done, and the ordinary basic shopping done.The weather wasnt worth putting the washing out, but if it is dry in the morning I shall be pleased to get it out early and enjoy things being cleaned and in more of the normal order. Tonight is my night to get out the new calendar and put in all the appointments etc , and also now mark up my newly bought thin diary that goes in my bag with me , then that way I wont get double booked for days, but I do like this little gap where no one is expecting me to either arrive or visit or them to visit me so it is a free and easy time, and any clear dry days will be the signal to start my new year as I mean to go on, with picnic stuff and spare towels etc kept in the car so can take off at a moments notice and enjoy any good mornings that arrive and leave the jobs to the dark afternoons.

Bluebell I took mine down today too. I do me is all 😊

Our tree went up on December 1st, mainly due to AC who has learning difficulties agitating for it! As we’ll have visitors on New Year’s Day, we’ll keep it up until the 2nd. For some reason, it feels as though the tree and decorations have only been on the go for a very short time this year, not for almost four weeks.

I will take all mine down on the 6th, just as my parents did before me.
I will miss it all though, as it looks so pretty.

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Bad luck to take down your tree and decorations before Twelfth Night !!
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What a load of rubbish! The tree was always taken down in my family before Hogmanay as that was our important celebration. Bad luck indeed

Barbadosbelle I m shaking in my shoes 🤣🤣🤣

Barbadosbelle

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Bad luck to take down your tree and decorations before Twelfth Night !!
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I thought it was bad luck to leave them up after Twelfth Night!

Or - What you Will

I don't have a tree as I'm on my own but I love the decorations around and keep them till Twelfth Night. Then any that are non Christmassy plus any lights stay till Candlemas. Then I'm ready to enjoy them being packed away.

I took my indoors tree down because we are away for New Year - but leave the outside trees decorated and lit up so the neighbours don’t think I’m Scrooge. I love a good clean up afterwards and putting the first vase of daffodils out .

Worst offence is to keep the Christmas decs on display all year! You know - the figures ones bolted on to people’s outside walls or on top of porches etc - not lit up, but clearly a snowman or Santa etc . There should be a law against it! (Only half joking)

Our little town looks attractive with the tree in the centre and smaller trees above the shops, plus lit decorations high up down the main street.

The Lions do a sterling job of putting them up.

Trouble is, they don’t get taken down so quickly.

I think it looks depressing if stuff is still up later on in January, all looks tired and tacky by then.

Mine is put up on 21 December and stays until my DGC go back to school (next Monday).

Both DDs go totally overboard with massive real trees put up mid-November, and they’re always impatient to take them down the day after Boxing Day!

2 GC here for the day on 2nd so the tree will stay up until the weekend. Usually the tree comes down on NYD. This year I wondered whether to get a tree (has to be a real one!) but we found one being sold off just before Christmas Day so got that.

12th night is 5th jan.not 6th.(look on your calendars) But we always take everything down by then anyway as my late mam died on 5th jan, so it seems respectful to do so.🫤 Anyway she was VERY superstitious so its what she used to tell us- "it's bad luck after the 5th"- so it's what we've always known i guess.Makes sense why the Royal family have had so much bad luck now does'nt it, with them keeping 'em up so long?😆

One of my DD takes everything down before bed on christmas day and puts up all the birthday decs for my granddaughters birthday on Boxing day.(now shes older i get the feeling that GD would rather keep at least some of the xmas stuff up alongside the birthday banners/balloons but has'nt the heart to tell her mum. 😁

I thought the younger ones trend now is back to using fake trees so to save the earth etc? Also ive never been keen since i read that the real ones have mould & spores etc and arent good for your health- with so many children having asthma i would have thought the parents would be veetoing the real trees.I only ever had one real tree when my kids were younger.And i can remember we had real ones only a handful of times when i was a child, as the 'tinsel' type trees became a bigger thing in late 60's early 70's.I do like the pine smell though but i think you can get fake pine hanging things now

My ex in-laws dont bother trimming at all now that my youngest son is at uni so can only visit once by christmas(we dont live close to them) but it just looks a bit sad and 'bah humbug' when we do visit.I think if i gave up the decs i would at least keep a small fake tree.Each to their own i guess.

No BlueBelle you are not alone. Mine will come down today or tomorrow if I have time. I don’t like to give the cleaner extra work dusting around everything and as it is only hubby and myself now as the grandchildren departed on Sunday. My husband has dementia and is confused by all the extra items . I usually keep surfaces uncluttered so if he misplaces items they are easier to find. As a child we always kept them up till 6th Jan. I loved unpacking them the following year and making paperchain decorations.

6th Jan marking when the three kings arrived in Bethlehem according to tradition. That’s the date my family has always used but I am sure it can be either 5 th or the 6 th. I am leaving some of the lights up because I like them, they look nice. We are going away on the 2 nd so will probably take the tree down after NYE. Plus all the cards - last year they were still arriving until early Feb . Postal service not crash hot these days. Only a couple of days a week now, that’s Oz for you.

Phew, calm down Bluebelle! Blimey.😁

Yes i guess you can all choose which day suits, but my Calendar on phone states 5th as one of the dedicated marked calendar dates for national/bank holiday dates etc.Says TWELFTH NIGHT on it in green.Thats good enough for me.

The first day of Christmas isn't, as seems to be commonly believed these days, the 1st of December, it's the 25th December, Christmas Day. Unless my finger counting is wrong, I make the twelfth day of Christmas the 5th January. That's 12th Night,

As my tree didn't go up until Christmas Eve it most definitely isn't coming down again until 5th Jan. I'll miss it when it does come down....