Decorations

[RenzaJones]

When do you put up your holiday decorations and when do you take them down?


We put ours up today when will we take them down probably easter.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

When do you put up your holiday decorations and when do you take them down?


We put ours up today when will we take them down probably easter.

Last Sunday, usually keep them till Twelfth Day.

 

[oggbashan]

The day after my wife's birthday because she was fed up with her birthday being lost in the run up to Christmas. Her birthday is Monday.

Og

 

[Lauren Hynde]

The day after my wife's birthday because she was fed up with her birthday being lost in the run up to Christmas. Her birthday is Monday.

Og

Same thing with my father's

 

[gauchecritic]

12 days before then 12 after (both including Christmas day) unlike my sister-in-law who puts her decorations up on the first day of December and is then completely pissed off (and several times pissed up) and takes them down on boxing day.(what's that?) The Feast of Stephen. (duh?) The day after Christmas. 26th.

Gauche

 

[Black Tulip]

I usually start with a tree the day after St. Nicholas, December 6, which is insanely early in the Netherlands.

But I love this season, so I try to make it last as long as possible.
I leave everything at least till after my birthday. I'll let you all know when that is.
The tree goes out on December 31, nice addition to the fires.

Now what stays till Easter or the week before the next birthday (whichever comes first): the birthday garlandes.
And perhaps the artificial snow on the windows.

 

[The_Fool]

Depends on the weather. Lights go up outside anytime after the after Thanksgiving (The last week of November). Inside decorations go up pretty much about the same time, since my wife is a holiday freak. Stuff comes down after Jan 1. Weather permitting of course....

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Just the other day, I realized that the table cloth on my hope chest is the same one I put there last christmas.

Ah, well - the red color looks good in that corner. It's good Feng Shui.

 

[OldnotDead]

Re: Re: Decorations

Last Sunday, usually keep them till Twelfth Day.

I'm with Lauren.

In fact this year we actually put the outside lights up the weekend before Thanksgiving because of all the mild weather. Had our 'offficial' outdoor tree lighting the day after Turkey Day and started unpacking the Christmas boxes. We have a LOT of Christmas here.

there are over twenty 20 gallon rubbermaid storage containers that have to come out of storage. We have enough lights and ornaments to do three trees and usually limit it to one big one inside and second 'outside' one on the gazebo. (That's usually a last minute acquisition as part of Christmas Eve festivities.) Right now other than THE TREE, we're probably 75% done.

This weekend we will get THE TREE, but it may not get decorated until the 21st this year. I did it ONCE on Christmas Eve as a 'Santa Surprise' and vowed never to do that again.

My middle son's nickname is 'Russ' and he calls me 'Clark' and we have a lot of fun getting ready.

We usually have at least one good tree story each year. It started with the one I 'procured' on December 26th for our first married Christmas. Around the fifth one or so was the one the dog lifted his leg on as I set it on the curb. (That one was 'Santa's Surprise) Two year's ago the decorated tree fell on top of me.

It's just not Christmas if there are no Griswold stories around here.

And NOTHING comes down until after the 8th of January. The snowbabies and all the Snowtown and other snowmen stay until the snow melts.

 

[Guest]

 

[Guest]

My only decoration is a wreath of red chili peppers and a tree, both go up whatever weekend before Dec. 25, come down the weekend after Jan. 6.

Our garbage service picks up xmas trees a week after xmas and it is always a sad sight to see the streets lined with dried up xmas trees lying on their side at the curb. Sometimes there is still tinsel on them. I cannot help but anthropomorphize them and think of them as cast out family members, all sizes. The little 2' trees break my heart.

Today I attended "Las Mañanitas*", the Mexican celebration and Mass for La Virgen de Guadalupe. (*You can 'google' if you want to know what it entails.)

For the second half of the service everyone was invited to the altar space of the church and we stood in a circle while the priest performed the usual ritual. Everything was spoken in Spanish and a Mariachi band played and sang the usual Mass parts. I found myself behind a very old man with spiky white hair and dark brown, wrinkled face. I thought it was the ghost of my great-grandfather. I cried through the rest of the Mass. A friend kept her arm about my shoulders.

Then we had a great Mexican breakfast and checked out all the beautiful Mexican boys.

This is like my Christmas day every year.

Paz y alegría,

Perdita

 

[pop_54]

Hmmmmmm

Ours go up when little one feels like helping put them up with her excitement, this year it was about 3 or 4 days ago they started on them, wife and daughter that is. They will come down on or around the 12th day if mum feels like it, little one will have lost all interest until next December. I will do my bit shoving it all back in the loft, plastic and wire tree included, sod all those pine needles about the house and a scrawny wrecked tree skeleton that seems to hang around in the garden for about 10 yrs.

 

[Wicked-N-Erotic]

They usually go up Thanksgiving night or the day after. When I take them down depends on what is happening in the aftermath of Christmas. If my kids are with their dad after christmas they they come down Christmas night, it gives me something to do as I sulk about them being gone on the holiday. If they are home then I take them down the first week of January sometime.


Wicked

 

[Dirt Man]

We put our decorations up on the 18th of December as that is our wedding aniversary. We take them down the day after our daughter's birthday which is January 1st. We have been doing this now for close to 30 years.

As Always
I Am the
Dirt Man