How long do you leave your Christmas decorations up for?

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   KangaYankeeDooposted 11 years ago

   How long do you leave your Christmas decorations up for?
   
   Some folks take down their Christmas decorations after New Years, and others don't even wait for Santa Claus's foot prints to cool off. Once I left our live Christmas tree up in the basement until well into February. It looked great from a distance, but if you sneezed on it there would all of a sudden be several inches of pine needles on the floor. Looking back now it probably wasn't the smartest move I ever made.

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   phtechposted 11 years ago

   I usually don't put my Christmas decorations up until the middle of January. Not because of any tradition... Mostly because of sheer laziness.

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   Any Other Voiceposted 11 years ago

   One time, we were so lazy we just left some of our decorations out there all year. Which makes it easier because come December, there's less work for you?

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      KangaYankeeDooposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Sounds light a resourceful idea. The only problem that I can see arising is a light bulb getting broke during the year, and then the whole string of lights doesn't work when Christmas rolls around.

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      Any Other Voiceposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Yeah, you just have to be careful, but if they're high up on your house, it would be difficult to break one anyway.

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   duffsmomposted 11 years ago

   Now that the kids are grown, I take stuff down the day after Christmas as I am ready to return to the normal routine.

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   davidlivermoreposted 11 years ago

   I take mine down the day after Christmas.  Usually I'm off of work and won't get it done otherwise after I head back to work.

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   lburmasterposted 11 years ago

   This is the weekend that I'm taking them down. The outside decor is gone, now for the inside. Trees and wrapping.

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   Rosemay50posted 11 years ago

   I usually take mine down on the 5th January, the twelth day of Christmas. It is supposed to be unlucky to leave them up after that.

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   Vicky022389posted 11 years ago

   I am taking mine down today! 1/3/13 This is the first year I have had a christmas tree since I moved out of my parents house 2 years ago. I think beginning of January is a good time to take the decorations down.

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   philliposted 11 years ago

   We take ours down before the New Year rolls in. Usually, the weekend following Christmas I take everything down and put it into storage for the next 50 or so weeks.
   Sometimes it's all broken down and store before the 28th of December. We NEVER let it go past New Year's Eve.

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