Christmas is Gone-all put away!|pad patter 12-30-2020

This question is assuming Christmas stuff went up in the first place.....if I had put any up I’d probably put it away sometime within a week or so I’d say.

 

I'll put what little I have out away on the 31st. Good way to end the year.

 

I'm in no rush. I might leave it up for another month. We'll see how it goes.
I used to be eager to clean it up and love that fresh uncluttered feeling too, but this year is so different.

 

We host three Christmases (my husband's mom, my mom, my husband's dad) and the third one is tomorrow. (This year my brother-in-law and his family did not come to either of the ones with my in-laws, it was just the grandparents by themselves.) The tree and decorations will come down Friday or Saturday. We didn't put up a lot of decorations inside this year -- just the tree, the board that holds Christmas cards, and the (artificial) wreath on the door (inside). I don't know what we're doing with the lights outside; I typically leave the outside wreath on the door until it turns brown, mid-spring.

 

Mine is down, except the window clings. I have to go get the bin out of the storage room, and it's buried right now. The tree was picked up by the town yesterday (real tree).
I usually pull it down between the 27-30. It depends on my mood. This year, the boy got a new tv to play his video games on, and the tree was in the spot the tv needed to go. Plus, we knew we needed to pull it down on a Monday night so it could be out for the Tuesday pickup. Those were the major deciding factors this year.

 

Our tree is still up. Hubby wanted to take it down on Christmas Day but since we've been remodeling and didn't get to put it up until a week before Christmas, we decided to keep it up until the new year. We only put up the tree and hung the stockings this year, but next year we can decorate our hearts out.

 

Ours is supposed to come down by the 12th night, ie the 6th of January.
But I am done with it and ready to take it down.
DD not so much.

 

I'm itching to take mine down but I'm waiting until New Year's Day. We always have a little New Year's Eve party & I like to keep them up until then. I always love the clean, fresh look of an uncluttered house. I do miss the Christmas lights at night.

 

Me too. I love sitting on the couch reading with the Christmas lights for ambiance.

 

Mine came down Sunday. It would have been Saturday, but the grands did not come over until Saturday evening thanks to a Christmas Day snow.
I have a wreath and some ribbons on the windows outside that need to come down and I'll probably do that tomorrow since we are supposed to be in the 50's. My main outside lights are multifunctional. They are the big bulb lights and I keep them attached at one corner. At Christmas I stretch them along the front of the house, and then I switch them to form a triangle over the patio furniture for Spring/Summer

 

We did not have a lot to take down!
We moved across the country this year (I know!) and left our old ratty artificial Christmas tree behind.
So this year we clustered all our presents around a big box: The Christmas Box.
It is still sitting out in the living room because the cat likes to hide in it .

 

I hear you! We did the same thing. I bought a Norfolk Island Pine, that I'm going to plant outside and all of our presents got piled on the floor kind of around the tree.

We didn't many decorations up this year in anticipation of our move, but i bought 2 red poinsettias besides the live pine tree. They're sitting in the window sills and slowly dropping leaves. It's about time for them to go bye-bye. The pine will probably stay inside for a while longer until it's a little warmer and I can plant it outside.

 

Ordinarily, I want the tree down, I want all the Christmas ornaments put away, by New Year's Day at the latest.

But 2020 is not ordinary. I'm thinking I might keep the tree up until the Feast of the Epiphany (6 January; the 12th day of Christmas). I like the pretty lights at night; I find the tree all lit up at night quite comforting.

 

My tree is still up in the living room. I just love to look at it at night with the tree lights on and the lights in the house off. I will take it down this afternoon or maybe tomorrow. I am never in a hurry. People take Christmas out of the house too soon(IMHO). I have a clock in my kitchen that plays Christmas music on the hour, every hour, all year round. When I was a kid at home in Pennsylvania, our tree didn't come down until the week after new years.

 

the tree it artificial, so no rush on taking it down. Traditionally as a kid we didn't take it down until the 6th Jan, but it didn't go up until a few days before Christmas either. In this house, it gets taken down when everyone wants life back to normal.

 

I start taking it down on New Year's Day. My DH would love the tree to stay up until President's day, but I try to get it down when I can. It takes a while to find everything, ya know? This year will be fun because I have things in new places due to our remodel. But I'm also hoping to destash some stuff - we'll see if that actually happens!

 

I like to have it all put away right away too. We used to host a NYE party, so I'd want everything Christmas gone and cleaned up ASAP...usually Dec 27th or so.