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[Krimpette]

I have no set pattern.  I put up my decorations when I feel like it and take them down whenever the spirit moves me.  Today, the spirit moved me to start removing some of the decorations.  

[Moonchilde]

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@CrazyDaisy wrote:

Busy people do things when they have time or extra help.

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THIS^^^^^

Busy working families do things when it's convenient for THEM, not because of "what people will think."

[hovis]

I started taking small decorations down today. I will take down a little every day. I will keep my tree and Navitity up until Three Kings Day. I always love to put them up and I feel good when everything is put away and the house is back to normal. Happy New Year everyone !!!

[Libbylady]

We put our decorations up on Thanksgiving weekend.  DH is fanatic about using timers on everything so at 3 pm our house lights up.

I find that this is great prior to the holiday, but once it is over I can't wait to get it put away.  There is a month's worth of dust on the mantle, where ever we put displays there is a scattering of little green pieces of garland that begin to get mixed with cat hair and migrate throughout the house. 

It all looks shabby to me now & I want it gone.  DH would leave it up through January, but only because he doesn't feel like re-packing everything.

[Moonchilde]

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@Plaid Pants2 wrote:

Maybe they were tired of having them up.

I'll never understand why it's such a big deal when people take down their Christmas decorations.

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I'll never understand why it's such a big deal when people don't do ANYTHING the way any one of us does them. People are different - they have different customs and backgrounds and histories, different wants and - gasp! - different likes and dislikes.

I've never felt it was any of my business to question what people do or why they do it (or don't do it), or intimate or proclaim that there's something wrong/bad/dumb about people who don't do/think/feel/see things exactly the way I do, my mother and grandmother did and the "nice" neighbors just like me do. Ewww.

I'll be forever grateful I don't live in a narrow, fearful, suspicious, judgmental world.

[Kachina624]

After non-stop Christmas since last July,  if I had decorations,  I couldn't get them down fast enough after the big day.   Frankly,  I'm sick of hearing about Christmas. 

[itsmagic]

We took our tree down today.  I will leave some of the smaller Christmas decorations up a while longer but the tree takes up a lot of space in our small living room so I'm ready to take it down after Christmas and get my space back. 

[croemer]

We usually take the decorations down as soon as possible to get the house back in order. I am itching to get on it...but I need hubby to get the packaging down from the attic so it will be this weekend before I can get to work. Probably my OCD is to blame.

[gidgetgh]

I'm one of those "take the tree down on the 26th" people. This year I actually took it down late Christmas afternoon. 

Why?  Ours was up for 2 1/2 weeks. I think that's a sufficient length of time to celebrate a holiday. We don't observe Epiphany or Russian Orthodox Christmas or anything else. For us, Christmas is Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. 

For me, putting the tree up before or right at Thanksgiving and leaving it up till late January (and even February) in some cases is overkill but I think that everyone should do what they want.  There's no right or wrong.  Whatever makes your heart sing. 

For us 2 1/2 weeks is more than sufficient. After that I'm ready to put the house back in order and return to regular days.  I've had enough. 

[Trinity11]

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@sweetee2 wrote:

We went over to our son and DIL  Monday  and all her Christmas  decorations  are already  taken  down.  The grandkids  are upset  by this and I  was wondering  why if you take your decorations  down already and Why? The rest of their home is a mess so it wasn't to keep it clean.

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Wow....  the rest of the home is a mess. Kids tend to mess up a home. It's part of the joy of having children around for myself and my husband. When my grandson left it looked like a train had run through the house. I just sat in the living room and shed a tear because I miss those days when my children were small and everything wasn't so sterile and "perfect."