Curious. Do any of you display any Christmas/holiday decorations? Lights outside? Wreaths? Xmas Trees?

When do you start taking them down? Some of my neighbors put stuff up starting in October. And they started taking them down already! I say it's too soon to take them down!!! Mine are up in full display for at least a few more days. What do you guys say?

We're celebrating Christmas with the family next weekend, thanks to COVID. They will be up a while yet.

Usually? The weekend after New Years. This year covid has forced us to spread our Christmas visits out so our stuff will probably be up until almost the end of the month 

Julian calendar.  Jan 7

All of my holiday visits happened during the weekend of Christmas, before New Year's Day. NYE plans were cancelled. All of our guests were either sick or close contact to somebody with Covid. We just assumed everybody, including my household, was a close contact and cancelled.

FYI. My decorations are always up in full display until Jan. 5, the twelfth day of Christmas.

1 hour ago, toolg said:

Curious. Do any of you display any Christmas/holiday decorations? Lights outside? Wreaths? Xmas Trees?

When do you start taking them down? Some of my neighbors put stuff up starting in October. And they started taking them down already! I say it's too soon to take them down!!! Mine are up in full display for at least a few more days. What do you guys say?

I can understand people wanting more holiday joy and all that and starting early, but then taking them down early seems odd, but they might just be thinking it's over.  We put ours up just after Thanksgiving and take down around 2nd week of Jan.  Depends on how the weekends fall.  Since new year's is this weekend and we just got snow today, I'll probably take down Christmas stuff next weekend.  I turned off the outside lights just haven't put them away way.

Some stores have Valentine's Day and Easter stuff out already.  I noticed the last few years if you don't buy Christmas lights and other decorations early, they are picked over and sold out by about the week after Thanksgiving.  

After the Epiphany, or the following week which is the Baptism of Jesus.  Sometimes I have to go by the Eagles calendar and when they lose I'll take the tree down.  Other decorations I start to transition after New Years Day from Christmas and put out more winter themed decorations (snowmen) and leave those up until Spring. I have candles in the window from October (orange colored) Nov (flame color) and now white until Spring.  

We had about a dozen counting my kids over for New Year's Day.  So glad it was warm and I opened up windows.  Yesterday before the game I washed table cloths and started making piles of things to get packed away. I'm old and slow and it takes me more than a day.

 

14 minutes ago, NOTW said:

I can understand people wanting more holiday joy and all that and starting early, but then taking them down early seems odd, but they might just be thinking it's over. 

The Griswold house started decorating in October, but he has lights and stuff all over the house and yard. It took him a good month to get it all in full display. And he's still lighting up the neighborhood strong! I feel like the rest of the neighborhood, keeping up with the Joneses, started their decorations early. My house isn't that elaborate. Some lights around the ridge of the house, the trees, and a yard sign.... I didn't start decorating for Christmas until Thanksgiving was over. The neighbors across the street, they only put a string of lights in the window, and it's already gone. Also the neighbor with all the blowups started taking his stuff down.

Growing up my mom was adamant. Everything comes down New Year's day. Anything else reduces us to animals. It was so engrained in me. That's what New Year's day was for. My wife though keeps them up until "Little Christmas", so that's what we do now. 

Many countries celebrate 3 kings day with gifts, and not Christmas, which is for going to church.

January 6th.

 NYD

Saturday 

We stopped buying Christmas trees after the kids moved out. We have a live tree we decorate and puts lights on, arrange presents around.

Wreaths and things get tossed when they start dropping needles, or I realize it is March.

What heathens take down their Christmas decorations before the Wise Men visit baby Jesus? 

24 minutes ago, Toastrel said:

We stopped buying Christmas trees after the kids moved out. We have a live tree we decorate and puts lights on, arrange presents around.

A "live tree" you stopped buying after the kids moved out? So you put up the same live tree year after year?   

I used to trot out to the tree farm year after year to cut down a tree. Until I realized they all want to sell me an 8-foot+ tree, when all I really want is 5-6 feet. Any more takes up too much room. So we found a fake one that's exactly the right size, so that's what we use.

I’d like to take them down the first week of January but the wife fights me until the middle of the month. 

43 minutes ago, toolg said:

A "live tree" you stopped buying after the kids moved out? So you put up the same live tree year after year?   

I used to trot out to the tree farm year after year to cut down a tree. Until I realized they all want to sell me an 8-foot+ tree, when all I really want is 5-6 feet. Any more takes up too much room. So we found a fake one that's exactly the right size, so that's what we use.

We used to go to the VFW and pick out a tree with the kids.

Now, we have a living pine tree in a large pot. A tree we've had as long as the house. It lives outside in nice weather, but they winter inside. We decorate the pine tree in a pot. Every year.

Whenever I have time and motivation to do it. No later than mid January typically. Usually first week of January. The wife gets the winter blues bad sometimes and she enjoys the holiday cheer as long as possible.

50 minutes ago, toolg said:

A "live tree" you stopped buying after the kids moved out? So you put up the same live tree year after year?   

I used to trot out to the tree farm year after year to cut down a tree. Until I realized they all want to sell me an 8-foot+ tree, when all I really want is 5-6 feet. Any more takes up too much room. So we found a fake one that's exactly the right size, so that's what we use.

We have a fake tree also (actually we put up three this year). If you spend money on a good one they really look nice nowadays.

Lights: Our old neighborhood HOA mandated 1/1 they needed to go down or you got a firmly worded letter. 
 

Im not sure about our new place but yesterday morning probably would have been the day

 

Decorations: When Schmoopie says so

Any time after January once the tree starts dropping needles and/or it's warm enough out to not freeze my balls off taking things down outside

In the UK we have the 12th day superstition. So Xmas decks need to come down by the 12th day after Xmas. We take ours down before NYE though as it is our little girls birthday so we want the house to feel special to her by that point. 

Sorry in advance if I’m being too sentimental for this topic.  I’ve lost a lot yet still have so much.  I told mr Di’s brother when he popped in to see me that the nail and fishing line is still in the corner where Mr Di used to put the live tree.  The biggest one he could find. Our son - he wore him out starting chain saw up inside. 
 

Now he’s 28. I’m burning a vacation day tomorrow to go with him for 2 wisdom teeth and one upper moler getting extracted.  I get to drive the sliverdo and him home.   He bought me a 2nd tree for the garage extentsion Mr Di put up.  It’s coming down soon if I don’t burn it down first.  Sometimes too much but a day at a time- some good-some not. It’s OK.  Football in January is the best.  
 

First tractor.  Ok I’m done.  

Awww. Cute pictures @DiPros.

I think October-November is the best time to play football, but the best games take place in January. The Eagles earned at least one more game in the playoffs for us to watch.