Christmas day has passed, so have you cleaned up yet?

[Wayne M.]

I thought it would be fun to discuss when we put everything away after the 25th. In our house, New year's day is usually the day for clean up. It's never a big gathering and it's a day off to get it done. I am thinking of a way to acknowledge January 6, AKA Epiphany, little Christmas, three kings day, etc. I am considering leaving our nativity scene that's on our hearth up until then.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Everything is boxed and put away for another year as of last Monday Dec 30, I think? I don't look at calenders and haven't worn a watch for a long time, so I could be wrong!!

But have been playing with new toys for a few days now

BIG

 

[Jim W]

I am just old fashion we always took are Christmas decorations down after the 6th of January. Still following this; but we don't put up our decorations right after thanksgiving like some do ours. Ours go up two weeks before Christmas so it is still about a month long time period.
Jim W.

 

[jeepit]

Last year we took down our inside decor after the New Year but left our outside decor up till Easter. No lights...just the greens.

 

[Wayne M.]

We put ours up on the weekend of my wife's brithday, 12/10. That's the marker for us.

 

[JCasper]

The tree is down as of 12/26 because my wife and kids were leaving for a week on the 27th. The tree has had enough by that time and starting to get pretty dry. The rest of the decorations are still up because she's not here to put them away.

 

[Woodenhead]

Wife will clean up the inside stuff today. My lights on the house are still up from 2012, probably do the same this year . FWIW the outside lights are not very noticeable and can't be seen from the road.

 

[AMink]

The tree went in for recycling on December 30th.

 

[Deleted member 995608]

I'm nursing a hangover from last night so not too sure when I'll get Christmas put away. I did use the tree to start my deep pit.

 

[Wayne M.]

JHawes- That's not a pit, it's an INCENERATOR!

666 AMink, I guess you didn't want the pine needles in the back of your RAM?

 

[jgillott]

Our outside lights went up ~ the 3rd week of December. Our tree was decorated on Christmas Eve this year. We usually put it up the weekend before Christmas, but we ended up waiting this year. I have to admit, it was a lot of fun to do. We'll have things up until after the Epiphany.

 

[jgillott]

On a side note, I stopped at a Cracker Barrel on Sunday evening and they have Valentine's Day stuff out already......

 

[gtoli]

The wife took most of the inside stuff down yesterday, the tree and outside stuff will come down this weekend.

 

[JHumphries]

Everything was put up on the 22 to minimize the 18 month old's access, and taken down yesterday. It's even put away in the shed this year!

 

[AnOldBiker]

The old girl and I married on December 27th.
She has to have a tree every year where it doesn't matter to me.
The tree usually goes up the day AFTER turkey day and she wants to decorate it.
She has made it her task that the tree is stripped of the bobbles and I through it out by end of day on the 26th, it it sin't to cold, it goes through the shredder and into the pile.
Then the anniversary is celebrated on the 27th, with a clean house.

 

[Killgore]

Ours didn't come down because it never went up. Too many kids, too many in-laws, too many ex-laws, and too many outlaws for everybody to conveniently get together before Christmas. We tried something different this year by going on the road to the Georgia Atlantic coast and then up to Charleston for ten super days of vacation in the camper. We'll get together starting this weekend with the kids and grand-kids. Everybody now appears less stressed with having to be somewhere at a certain time, and then leaving there to be somewhere else at a certain time. I also think it's important for each family to have their own traditions when the kids are young. IMO, And of course, having Christmas with the old folks there is important too. Will we do this again? Probably not - the backlash is getting worse than the stress we were trying to avoid.

When I was a lot younger my mother always maintained that Christmas had to come down by the first of January. She said it was bad luck to leave it up any longer. I'm now convinced it was just her way of getting it done in a timely manner.

However, I still eat my greens and peas on New Year's Day.

Ed

 

[Wayne M.]

One year we didn't do much decorating. Just a little for the kids sake. The year my mom passed which is just before Christmas. That was a rough one. As far as any New Years traditions, my wife's family always has a ham on New Year's Day. Supposed good luck. I won't argue that. I love a good ham!