Taking Christmas decorations down

My daughter leaves her outside lights on till Candlemas. She feels the same as you do and her neighbours find it cheers the gloom up

Ours come down on the 6th
Any lights that the batteries have run out are taken down after new year

Mine are all down and packed away. Back to some kind of normality, thankfully!

Took them down yesterday. Always do it before 6th January. House does look bare though!

Ive just done the same

We leave white lights in the shrubs and trees to brighten the darkness, they will stay until the clocks change and come out again in October. The real Christmas decorations are packed away now.

All year round we have some battery candles in glass storm lanterns in the living room and battery decorative lights on the conservatory window ledges all with timers. I feel so much better with light .

Mine are up for the ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’ as they have been since I was a child. Just sometimes we get the tree before 25 but did not have one this year.so wreath and cards etc stay until 6.

We've always taken them down on New Years Day but because we were going to be out NYE and the forecast for the following day wasn't good (we had quite a bit outside), we took them down NYE.

Traditionally decorations should be down by twelfth night (Epiphany/6th January). Cribs can stay up until Candlemas.

I'm happy to go by that, but I think people should do what suits them.

We took ours down just before NY, I get fed up with them after Xmas and am always glad to have a house free of decs for the start of the NY.

I absolutely love to see the Chrustnas lights outside as I walk along the road .
I always feel depressed post Christmas .
I might take one of my decorations down now because it's a failure .
One of my friends took her decorations down yesterday and has given me two fantastic potted trees.
I'm thrilled.
I'll bring them on with water and fertiliser for next year .
Otherwise, I'm helping to remove our decorations down on Twelfth Night at church .

Take mine down as soon as possible - usually Boxing Day and they only go up a couple of days before Christmas Day.
I do like my year round garden fairy lights and I’m looking forward to buying daffodils for inside the house.

Always 12th Night but especially this year when I was beset with so many demands I didn’t get them up till late. After the effort of getting them up especially the tree I’ll leave them till 6th.

Mine are coming down tomorrow. Had enough of them now.

it all depends, but usually down within a few days of 6th January.

Taking mine down on the 6th as always but I love the coziness and cheerfulness of the window lights and tree so much, I would happily keep them up till March if I could. 😊

Ours will come down on Sunday, family all here tomorrow for dinner.

I took ours down yesterday and all packed away until next year. Once New Year’s Day has arrived I feel the decorations need to come down. They’ve been up since 1st December so they did well. We still have battery candles around and in lanterns.

Ours were packed away today, but I always have white fairy lights around the fireplace and mantelpiece that stay up all year round.

We've all got our own traditions where decorations are concerned. I take ours down on 6th. Traditionally Christmas was celebrated for 12 days and twelfth night was the big finale, so the decorations should, I think, still be up for that.

Took mine down today. I usually like it when the living room's back to normal but I am missing my tree now.

Take them down for Epiphany. Hate decorations going up at the beginning of December.

Tree and lights down tomorrow. Other cards/decs been gradually removed since New Year’s day.
Daffodils arriving courtesy of Waitrose tomorrow afternoon, to add cheer, hopefully!

We will start taking down the indoor decorations tomorrow. The trees will be the last to come down. It will take me a few days to pack everything away neatly into their boxes, then back into the cupboards where they will live until next Christmas. Not everything will be away by the 6th, but we will have made a good start.

Our window lights and outdoor lights will have their last chance to shine on Sunday, but the outdoor ones will have to wait until the first fine and dry weekend to be physically taken down, as this involves MrLP up a ladder - not good in wind or rain!

We have year round lights ( warm white ) on the magnolia tree by our front door. It lights up our corner, and makes people smile. At Christmas we add coloured lights to them.

I enjoy our decorations being up for the whole of December and until the 6th January. It always feels bare when they come down, but then I start to enjoy the extra space again!