How long do you keep up holiday decorations?

[Gaolee]

Usually New Year’s Day or the day after. Traveled for the holidays this year, so keeping up until Epiphany (12th Day of Christmas) to enjoy them a little longer this year.

We take them down on Epiphany every year. That's January 6 for most of the world. It all goes up Christmas Eve and comes down on the 6th.

 

[Gaolee]

Our tree is still up as we have had out of town relatives staying with us. Hopefully we get it down by the end of the weekend. We used the photo of the tree for our E-Christmas card this year. (No fire hazard worry as it is a fake tree)
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The view out your windows is pretty rough. I don't know how you can stand to live there.

 

[ElectroVibe]

I like when people take down the big decorations but leave something small like a string of lights.

 

[JRA]

follow-up to my original post on 01-02: we took the xmas stuff down on saturday and sunday and i carried the stuff to the basement storage yesterday. they were up for 5 weeks.

so endeth another holiday ornament jam.

 

[E2942]

3.3 Meters is the maximum length for me.

 

[hbarcat]

I'm 56 and was surprised to learn that it was once commonplace for Christmas decorations to go up no earlier than a week before Christmas and to come down before the new year. Many families even put up their trees and lights on Christmas eve and took them down the day after Christmas.

Now of course, you often see decorations going up anytime after Thanksgiving, in late November. Commercial stores typically put up their Christmas bling right after Holloween.

These days, the deadline for taking stuff down seems to be anytime in January.

 

[GwennyG]

We stopped putting them up several years ago except for a small strand of purple tinsel garland some years. Then every Dec. 26 or 27, we congratulate ourselves for taking them down so promptly.

 

[SoonerBill]

That's what we do too.

I should have added when I posted this that the only thing we decorate is the front door and porch. We stopped doing anything inside years ago when we adopted a very athletic cat.

 

[GwennyG]

I read the word 'cat' and it took a few seconds to realize you were not, in fact, decorating him or her.

 

[bobba66]

I'm gonna put some up this year for the first time in decades. We'll see where it goes from there.

 

[Nedmundo]

I like when people take down the big decorations but leave something small like a string of lights.

That's exactly what we've done. We've found we like the light strings wrapped around some railings and bannisters, so we've left them in place. We keep identifying dates when they'll come down, then those dates pass, and the lights are still there. Maybe when we go on daylight savings time. . .who knows?

 

[ryco]

Don't put 'em up anymore. Stopped in '17.
But once upon a time would take the tree and lights down Jan 2nd or 3rd as hangover permitted.

 

[GIBrat51]

How long do you keep your decorations up?
Me? Probably to the 2nd week of January. I start taking stuff down New Years. Mine are more seasonal opposed to “Christmas” I guess after I drag this stuff out and put it up, I want to keep them up for a while! We start putting Mardi gras decorations after that!

Well...
Since I never put up ANY holiday decorations, I'd say the answer is "not very long at all". Since I live alone (and like it that way, thank you very much), nobody will see them but me. Holiday decorations fall into the category of "useless waste of time". I may - occasionally - leave a Christmas card from my sister, out on the bookcase in the living room for a day or two after Christmas. She has a thing for pretty artsy/craftsy ones; and, if I like it? It'll stay for a few days. But, that's pretty much it. As for outside decorations - for any holiday? Even bigger waste of my time...

 

[hbarcat]

When I lived in LaPointe, Wisconsin, local tradition dictated that Christmas trees (but only the real ones) were taken down no later than New Years Day.

La Pointe is located on an Island on Lake Superior, and is accessed in winter via a three mile long ice road connecting it to the mainland.

Nighttime visibility on the ice road is nonexistent, so the town marks the road with used Christmas trees every 100 yards. Residents dump their used trees at the fire hall in early January, and the town maintenance crew sets the trees when the ice road forms soon after.

 

[fhm555]

I might carve a couple pumpkins for Halloween this year (it is my birthday after all), but the day after I’ll just toss them on the compost heap. As for all other holidays I don’t do seasonal decorations anymore so there is nothing to take down.

 

[sovereign_510]

most holidays we would take them down in like a week or so. christmas was the only holiday we would really seriously decorate for. usually we would take down christmas decorations around january, but sometimes i remember the tree staying up until like march, give or take. we haven't celebrated christmas since i was 18, but i still have the decorations out of sentimental attachment