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nanna8

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.

My cards arrived before Christmas this year 😲

Sometimes it's February, once an airmail parcel posted in November arrived in March.

Mine has all gone too. Went up 20th Dec so 8days was enough. I do it for family but my ocd means my brain is buzzing to put things back.

Tinsel and decorations down but the two trees are still up and will be until twelfth night as I love the scent and the lights. I have a vintage aluminium tree from the 1930s, found in my loft many years ago, and I’m the only one in the family that loves it so it goes up first and is the last to come down!

Nannan2

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. 😁

My DDs birthday is 28th December and she has said that she liked having all the Christmas decorations up when she had her parties as a child. It seems an unnecessary palaver to replace them?🤔

On another note, a neighbour who keeps to herself, has no decorations or lights at all and every house shows something lit up outside, even if, like mine, it’s a modest trellis with lights.
It looks so sad and gloomy.

Hollysteers I suspect the neighbours feel the same about our house. It's tucked away in the corner and we don't do all the lights around the house, never have. From the road it looks very dark. But we decorate the porch with garlands and a wreath, including lights. We have lights in the hedge at the side of the drive but they are small twinkly ones, not huge ones so again, not seen from a distance. Our windowsill is decorated and lit, and the Christmas tree stands in the bay window.

One year when it snowed our next door neighbours helped us build a snow family, complete with dog, and all dressed in hats, scarves and an umbrella and shopper for Mrs Snowman. No one else could see them despite them being 5 ft tall (not the dog!).

We're the oldest people in the road these days and I'm sure the neighbours think we're gloomy too, but I really don't care. We do our own thing.

Ambergran sounds good, you have lights!🎄