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Post by daylilydude on Dec 30, 2020 4:52:19 GMT -5
To take it all down and put the holidays behind you?
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Post by brownrexx on Dec 30, 2020 9:33:19 GMT -5
Day after Christmas for me and I start the New Year fresh and clean.
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Post by spike on Dec 30, 2020 9:40:06 GMT -5
July! No seriously! >,< Eventually there will come a day in January that the weather isn't total refuse and I will get the outside decorations down and put it all away. I hate putting the decorations away. I totally love the lights, the glitter, the tinsel and all the sparklies!
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Post by paulf on Dec 30, 2020 12:23:05 GMT -5
Sometime in the next couple of weeks when the weather co-operates. Right now we will wait until after our older son and family visit for our Christmas get together...if the roads get cleared between here and Iowa City after the blizzard and ice storm. our driveway is still pretty icy but the sun is out. The ice needs to melt off the lights and wreaths.
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Post by paquebot on Dec 30, 2020 13:47:25 GMT -5
When I used to drive around and collect Christmas trees, many times there would be some on the 26th. Others might not show up until over 2 weeks later. Some later ones would lose half their needles by the time I put them onto the truck. When we decorated here, usually down by New Year's Day.
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by september on Dec 30, 2020 14:05:44 GMT -5
No decorations except a plain artificial tree with white lights. It was up a total of about 5 days, and was taken down two days ago so I could put my exercise equipment back into that spot.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Dec 31, 2020 18:22:24 GMT -5
I just told DH he can feel free to take down the indoor decorations anytime now. It changes every year. One year we had Christmas put away by the 27th. Some years it's stayed up until the 6th. This year I'm feeling like we can move on, but I'm too tired to put any of it away, so I'm stuck with it until DH feels motivated. The outdoor lights will be turned on until the 6th, and then they will be off after that. No clue when he'll actually get out there and physically take them down.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Dec 31, 2020 18:59:58 GMT -5
Probably this weekend. I do like to keep the decorations up through New Year's Day so New Year's feels festive.
The house always feels so "plain" for a few weeks after the decorations are put away, until I get used to it again.
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Post by bestofour on Dec 31, 2020 23:22:57 GMT -5
I put our stuff away yesterday and today. Sometimes I leave it up longer but when I worked I took it down before I had to go back because I didn't want to spend all my off time doing it. A lot of times it has to do with the weather. I'd rather do it on a warm, dry day.
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Post by paulf on Jan 1, 2021 10:09:44 GMT -5
After the Christmas/New Years visitors have gone home and I am reading quietly I will look up and my wife will have a few plastic bins out on the floor packing all the decorations away and right then I know the rest of the day will be spent taking all the seasonal pieces down to be shoved into the small spaces in the attic to wait for a year. It will happen tomorrow or the next day for sure.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Jan 1, 2021 17:47:24 GMT -5
Well, DH has put nothing away yet, and I was reminded that tomorrow I have to un-decorate at church and BOTH my kids work, so I won't have help. So the decorations here at home will probably be up for a bit yet.
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Jan 3, 2021 23:39:22 GMT -5
I will probably take up the lights outdoors tomorrow. All of those lights are new so I'll try to save them carefully for next year.
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Post by farmerjack41 on Jan 4, 2021 0:24:46 GMT -5
Got right after it today and everything is put away for another year. Lord willing and the creek don’t get to high, will be doing it all again in ten months or so. Think about everyone on the road got in done also. The weather was so favorable, is went fast. Fifty five degrees today, when it normally would be around the freezing mark. Totally unreal.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Jan 4, 2021 5:53:17 GMT -5
It needed to go, so DD and I tackled it yesterday afternoon. It actually didn't take very long once we started. Now everything is in a huge pile in my back porch, waiting for DH to haul it to the garage attic.
Feels good to have it done, though this is always when I look around and realize how sparse I am with decorating my home. I have a few pictures up, but not much else. I kinda like the decluttered look, but it always is a shock after Christmas when there is Christmas clutter everywhere.
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Post by brownrexx on Jan 4, 2021 8:19:33 GMT -5
I was thinking about this and when I was a kid I remember Dad bringing home a live tree and leaving it in a tub of water outside until time to decorate. I think that we probably only put up the tree about a week before Christmas and it was exciting.
We may have put up a few window decorations a little before that and then we kept everything decorated for the entire week between Christmas and New Year's. We didn't have school and we visited our friends all during the week.
Now people (including me) are putting up artificial trees and other decorations the day after Thanksgiving so they are up for a whole month before we even get to Christmas.
A month of the decorations is more than enough for me and I am ready to take them down the day after Christmas. I am tired of them by then. No kids playing with Christmas toys here.
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Post by spike on Jan 4, 2021 9:25:50 GMT -5
Okay grab a tissue here cause oh boo hoo and all that. But I LOVE my Christmas decorations. I keep them up as long as I can. As a child, Momma really didn't like me much, so even though my Pollyanna attitude always hoped there was something good under that tree for me, there never was. Oh I got gifts but my sister got the good stuff and I got my cousins hand me down clothes. LOL No we were not poor, there was money for gifts just not for me. BUT NOW we have Christmas. I don't care if there is anything under the tree for me but I love buying gifts and giving gifts and I love my lights and the happiness they bring me now. After all my heart break as a child, it is hard to let go of the happiness I get now.
Lordy how pathetic!
New Years Day it was like all the decoration in our neighborhood were instantly vaporized. Everything is down expect ours lol. And yes they are on timers and still come on every night!!
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Post by meandtk on Jan 4, 2021 9:51:36 GMT -5
spike, It is not pathetic. It’s wonderful that you enjoy Christmas, and try to make it joyful for your family.
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Post by september on Jan 4, 2021 11:35:19 GMT -5
spike , I am a Christmas grinch, to the point where I could do without it entirely. BUT I firmly believe that a person should be free to enjoy whatever makes them happy without judgement from others! Keep those decorations up, just as long as you like! Hang onto the feelings that make you feel good. Yes !!!! My family was not poor growing up, but we were frugal and of limited means, both mom and dad and one set of grandparents who lived with us worked. We had presents, but just a couple each. My greatest disappointment was getting a pair of Kickerino snow boots instead of the doll I had my heart set on. The box was the right size, but I cried when there was no doll inside. I know my mom felt bad, but I probably needed those boots a lot more than I needed the doll.
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Post by brownrexx on Jan 4, 2021 12:23:38 GMT -5
I am hoping that my neighbor takes down their outdoor, spiral, blinking Christmas tree soon. It has bright bluish white lights.
They have it in their back yard and it blinks really fast and shines into our windows. I try to ignore it but it is really annoying especially late at night when it is really dark. They don't use a timer and it blinks incessantly all night and all day!!!
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Post by paulf on Jan 4, 2021 14:26:02 GMT -5
The inside decorations are down, the outside stuff is waiting for me to get around to it.
Done and done..the entire house has been de-decorated, put into tubs and stored in the attic until next year. A few wintery items are still on display. This is the time all the furniture gets moved to a new arrangement and the whole house gets a thorough cleaning. Old houses get pretty dusty and my clean freak wife can't stand to let it go. So we clean and rearrange for a few days. That will hold it until spring.
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Post by spike on Jan 8, 2021 11:36:33 GMT -5
Still dragging me feet about taking down Christmas. I did take down the lights off the Magnolia Tree, took down the dancing snowflakes that shined on the shed and took down the wreaths off the fence and doors. The blinky lights and garland is still on the fence, lights still on the lilac tree and and inside SCREAMS Christmas! But I see it this way, I am still getting Christmas cards in the mail so decorations need to stay up
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Post by octave1 on Jan 8, 2021 15:46:54 GMT -5
I solved the problem by not decorating. A tree indoor never made sense to me, both real and fake, and I am not particularly fond of tinsel and fragile ornaments. Actually I consider Christmas ornaments additional clutter, and the idea of a cluttered house never appealed to me. september , if you are a Grinch I am his lousy brother.
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Post by spike on Jan 10, 2021 9:24:24 GMT -5
I managed to take down the outside stuff yesterday and may start working on the inside stuff today. The trees (yes trees GOSH) (there are only 3) (oh hush you) will come down last cause I love the lights!
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Post by september on Jan 10, 2021 11:40:14 GMT -5
spike , my sister still has her tree up, she only had time to put it up a few days before Christmas, so she wanted to get her effort-worth out of it. She always gets a huge Fraser fir and has a collection of beautiful antique looking ornaments. She loves it. May keep it up until the end of January. And I love giving her a hard time about all the work involved in putting it all away!
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Post by bestofour on Jan 10, 2021 15:37:35 GMT -5
Because of allergies we usually have pretend trees. This year my daughter in GA, because the lights on her pretend tree haven't worked for the last 2 years (it's 10 years old) decided to have real trees and I must say they were beautiful and smelled soooo good. But, as real trees that have been cut do, the largest one began to look pitiful and started leaning about a week before Christmas. By Christmas day it was ready to go into the woods for critters to move into. So, she ordered a pretend tree for next year which came on Wednesday. Because of an experience I had, yesterday she took her new tree out of the box, put it together, lit it up, took it down and put it back in the box. She's ready for next year. We all like Christmas decorations.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jan 11, 2021 9:15:09 GMT -5
Taking it out and checking to make sure it works is always a good idea when buying lit Christmas trees, lights, or any sort of electric Christmas decor in those post-Christmas sales. If you don't find out it's defective until next Christmas, you're stuck.
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Post by bestofour on Jan 11, 2021 20:43:07 GMT -5
Taking it out and checking to make sure it works is always a good idea when buying lit Christmas trees, lights, or any sort of electric Christmas decor in those post-Christmas sales. If you don't find out it's defective until next Christmas, you're stuck. yep
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Post by spike on Jan 31, 2021 13:07:56 GMT -5
As the last hold out I know you all have been waiting with baited breath (and it isn't even fishing season) to know when the final tree came down. Well Christmas is officially over here. The last tree is down and decorations are finally all put away.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Feb 1, 2021 9:58:20 GMT -5
Aww...I feel you, spike. I am finally starting to get used to the bare look of my house without the decorations again.
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