Taking the decs down yet?

I have made labels from mine using the pinking shears inherited from MiL.I have mainly used the glittery ones as they cannot be recycled.We still have one Christmas card up: a hand made one from DG1 who is autistic. All his cards feature our black cat.All those familiar with autism will understand.

I re- read all the cards yesterday and made some gift tags for next year and recycled the rest.

Actually its a phone box.

(little things are important)

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Re OP, I've still got a little postbox with a robin on it by the side of the tv. Keep looking at it and saying "must put that away".......

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I bagged up the cards and put them in a drawer, ready to make gift labels when I feel up to it.Glad to see others do the same, thought it was just thrifty old me ( like the Queen, saving bits of string)?

The cards are still on the dining room table.
I need to make a list

Everything dwn and packed but won't go up the loft until I have been through the cards and cut up next year's gift labels.

Took the tree and room decs down on Saturday. DD2 took it in her camper van back to the garden centre we bought it from to dump there and they dispose of it. She had 3 trees altogether , 1 each for her and her sister too. She came back on Sunday afternoon to take down the outside lights she put up for me. It looked very bare . Still have lots of candles on small tables I like to light them in the winter evenings

Took my decs down yesterday, and polished round ( boy did it need it!)
Looked rather bare, but today am used to it, and bought myself a bunch of tulips as compensation.
I usually do find the odd ‘escaped’ dec, but this time didn’t, and in spite of having the same cough lurgy as many, found it all seemed easier to pack away this time.

Victoria, even!

Queen Voctoria couldn't have banned 12 night celebrations. That would require an Act of Parliament and I can find no trace of one. She may have banned them in her household, but that would be about as far as she could go. Mind you Cromwell banned them.

In googling this subject I came across this wonderful government site. www.lawcom.gov.uk/app/uploads/2015/03/Legal_Oddities.pdf

I found a little Christmas bell today and a star hanging on a door knob.

Of course, the Orthodox Christians have a different date, I forgot that.
Thank you

Yup, Callistemon. I think there are baubles in every drawer in the house because of course I never remember where I put them from one year’s end to the next! They pop up at random times through the year.

Anyway, today is apparently Christmas Day in the Orthodox Church so enjoy your decs if you’ve still got them up! ?

Does everyone else always find one decoration that you've missed?
Always found just after you've put the boxes away.

"Sadly in the 1870’s, Queen Victoria outlawed the celebration of the Twelfth Night as a day of revelling, fearing everything would get out of hand."

Grumpy old so and so!

Nope. Mine stay up until January 31! I purposely use mostly winter decorations (snow flakes, snowmen, mittens, etc.) along with my small tree and sons' & dil's/gif's stockings hung from the mantle. I like to sit and enjoy the color and lights for a longer time after all the hubbub of the holidays. This is a tradition I started when my job required me to work 60 hours a week up until a few days before Christmas.

And they’re down chez the Domins! I forgot the box of wrapping paper, though. That’ll have to stay in the dining room until, we go into the attic again.

I also posted off half of the Christmas cake to ds2, who loves it.

Mmm it looks similar to Christmas cake.

We have Christmas cake left, perhaps I'll have a piece to celebrate 12th Night!

I just looked up Mary Berry's Twelfth Night cake (BBC Food) and it says
"No cooking required"

Then says 'bake for 2.25 - 2.5 hours

In my Mrs Beetons book there is a recipe for Twelfth Night cake. I made it once. It's really boring, but I could eat a piece now.

I’m doing mine this evening. It was supposed to have been done yesterday but I was needed at my dd’s as her husband got taken into hospital (Home, now with a bagful of antibiotics!).

Dh had taken down what he could but was too scared to remove any of the glass baubles!

Oh, it's 12th Night!
Somehow I think revelry and mischief will pass us by.

Perhaps I'll re-read my favourite Shakespeare play.

We thought it was because it's hibernation time but it is probably post viral.
I did manage more cleaning and washing today!
Still have Christmas boxes to put away.

I hauled the Christmas tree on to the balcony, because it seems quite alive, and I can’t bear to throw it away in the skip. I’ve just noticed some mistletoe is still up above a window. My father would have been worried: he was quite superstitious, and insisted all decorations were down before sunset on 12th Night.
I had a really good idea for storing the lights: I got the middle of a toilet roll, made a little slit in the top and put one of the lights through, then would the rest around the toilet roll, and finished by putting the battery case inside. (I don’t often have good ideas. ) my floor has a fair amount of needles on it, but I’m sitting on the sofa eating Christmas cake and having a glass of wine. Happy Twelfth Night! It used to be a time of revelry and mischief!

Callistemon cold and cough, sooner that than a tummy bug!

I have now got the decorations down although 2 undecorated trees wait to, in one case, be taken out of the house and to the tip, the other packed back into its box and put in the loft.

That will be done tomorrow I feel exhausted.