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Nope lazy kids won't work my living room still has bows and boxes they will have all their stuff put up by the 2nd though

orange-n-brown 365 wrote:Nope lazy kids won't work my living room still has bows and boxes they will have all their stuff put up by the 2nd though

Same here. No boxes though, my husband hauled all that stuff off and the stuff has been carried to their rooms but the tree's still standing. Tomorrow though, it's a goner.

We always wait until after the 1st of the new year to take everything down.

I always leave mine up until the first of the year.

Day after Christmas, down they come..now, getting them up into the attic? that's a whole nother story!

Mine stays up until after New Years.

I'm guessing ours will stay up through the week. Its always kinda cool putting the thing up and decorating the house, but taking everything down is a real pain.

Hubby took down all the outside stuff. Ornaments are off the tree but still haven't gotten it put up yet. That's on the list for this evening or tomorrow.

It was real easy "taking it down" since I never "put it up" in the first place.
Back when I did put up and decorate a Christmas tree [when my kids were little and at home and I was a Lutheran], I did not take it down til after Jan 6 - Epiphany - the day the Wise Men are supposed to have arrived in Bethlehem - the "12 Days of Christmas" [according to Christian tradition and song] is the time between Christ's birth and the arrival of the Maji [Three Wise Men/Kings] bearing gifts and acknowledging Him as the promised Saviour.
I'm surprised that all you staunch Christian "fundamentalists/literalists" don't recognize that date as the final day of the Christmas season/celebration.
When I was a child, my father a dairy farmer and my mother a teacher, we put up our Christmas tree on the first day out of school for Christmas vacation and took it down and cleaned up the house on New Year's Day - before Mom had to go "back to work" the next day.

daughter got the tree down! gotta go out and pick up the blow up snowman the wind done some damage hopefully he is repairable

cag: Mine stays up through Epiphany...it's still waiting on wise men.

IronTigerMum wrote:cag: Mine stays up through Epiphany...it's still waiting on wise men.

you dont have to wait, you live with 1 of the wisest men I know...

nope.

Down and ready for Valentines Day.

TTT: The bagboy?

My mom has all her stuff down but my boyfriend still has his stuff up but will take his down soon I am assuming anyway

Well, I broke tradition today and took the tree down. The husband fell this morning and his legs no longer have the strength to hold him up, so hospice brought him a hospital bed. There wasn't any room in the bedroom for it, so they put it where my tree was. At least I had help getting everything down and put away.

Never put it up to begin with.

We took down and put away all the inside decorations yesterday...
The outside decorations are in the planning stage... When it makes it to the 50's, I'll take them down... too cold as of now..

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