Christmas decorations

[Old-n]

When do you take down your cards and decorations, my wife likes them down today.

To start the New Year a fresh

What about you

[Monsy]

Mine all came down yesterday. Couldn't untangle one set of lights, so lost my temper and cut them off the tree.........

[Jann]

I shall take them down tomorrow,our local W.H.Smith has a tub where you can take Christmas cards to be re-cycled,and Monsy I just love you

[Corrie]

Always on the morning of the 1st for us too. That made me laugh about cutting the lights of the tree!!!

[mo]

We always take ours down on the 2nd of Jan.
I hate taking them down It all seems soo bare especially the lovely display I place on the mantleshelf, garlands and soft flashing lights.

[Old-n]

I always thought you had to leave them up until the twelfth night of Christmas which I think is Jan 6th

[rocky]

[font=Verdana]Decorations inside come down the week between Christmas and New Year's Eve.

I can't bring myself to take down the outside decorations that soon. But I make myself pack them up January 1st. Everything looks so bare afterwards.[/font]

[dejavou]

Mine came down yesterday

[Liz]

Ours used to come down on the 2nd of January.

But this year I couldn't bring myself to put any up, so I don't have any to take down

[Lacemaker]

Mine come down today.

[Victors Mate]

Mine come down today.

Should have used stronger elastic Hazel

[Lacemaker]

Should have used stronger elastic Hazel

You're supposed to use elastic ???

(I knew something was wrong ......)

[dejavou]

[Anya]

I leave the decorations to the very last minute, they brighten up the place and it looks very bare for a day or two. Before midnight on Fifth January is supposed to be the rule. Unless I am going away before that, in which case I take them down before I go.

Trago Mills sell prepared hyacinths for 20p each, I buy a dozen every year and get them ready to flower, just as the decorations come down, for a bit of colour. After that they go in the garden and make a huge display every year. I must have hundreds and hundreds, by now.

[dejavou]

That's a lovely idea Anya