Can I leave my decorations up???

Am I the only one that really dislikes taking down the decorations after January 1st??? My home seems so EMPTY and DULL without them!!! :(

I don't want to leave everything up ... maybe just the tree??? :)

Maybe I should buy lights and decorations for every holiday???

Does anyone have different decorations for their tree --- or is that exclusively for December???

LOL...no, you aren't the only one!!! I sadly took the decorations off the tree today, but kept the tree itself up with the lights on..."just for a few more days" :o. I was talking to my mom tonight and she said same thing. My sister...she was over it on like the 26th. Me...I just love the feeling I get from it all. I think I'll probably take the lights off and the tree down this weekend. :(

If we kept it up all year, it wouldn't have the same feeling anyway. Only 11 more months until we do it all again!

Leaving my tree up for awhile. My YM and I bought the decorations and lights last year. Since he can't be here, its kind of a nice little reminder.

In Latin America, Christmas lasts until January 6th, the Epiphany. Since I was away for Christmas and I did not decorate much, and I bought one of those little fiber optic trees in the US, and transported it lovingly all the way to Panama. I just bought and put up the ornaments today!

I also decorated a little palm tree and it looks so cute I do not want to remove the lights. I live in a small apartment and there is no room for a big tree. I have 2 Nativity scenes though.

My bf comes back on Epiphany day so I will leave everything up to celebrate his arrival... Hah! he will get to help me put everything away the next day... am I evil or not?!

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P.S. While in the US I noticed that homes really go overboard on Christmas decorations! Collections of ornaments, snowmen, Santas, reindeer, trees, inflatable yard structures ...It looks beautiful, but I can only imagine the time and storage boxes involved in all that! I went to this home that had FIVE Christmass trees!!!! I was impressed.

well you can leave them up until LIttle Christmas is over

I'm a fan of taking it all down. What a pain the rear.

I took all mine down yesterday cuz tomorrow I leave for Texas and didn't want to leave it for Alec to deal with. :)

Nadine.

Since our Xmas tree was put up on Xmas eve? The tree won't come down until the end of January sometime.

- Good to know I'm not the only one - for different reasons, but I'm not alone in wanting to leave my tree up for awhile!

- Very smart, Sheila!

- I'm sorry your honey can't be with you this year, Rozie, but it's nice that you have the decorations with all the memories.

- Is Little Christmas the Feast of the Three Kings, MerAlove?

- That's thoughtful of you, Jesique! Enjoy your visit!

- You go, Dan-the-man-Shues! I left my decorations up until February one year because I wanted company to see my home decorated ... but it felt funny!

- I remember decorating the real tree for the birds when I was a kid, Trish! I hadn't thought about that until you reminded me - thanks for the memory! (Mine is fake because in all the years I've lived in Florida, I NEVER had a tree that smelled after I brought it into the house. Maybe because I have all my doors and windows open?)

I don't make my dog wear her reindeer barrettes or her bows-collar after December 31st - so that's a start! :D

I don't make my dog wear her reindeer barrettes or her bows-collar after December 31st - so that's a start! :D
I bet the dog is gratetful. Is it the cutie in your AV?

I bet the dog is gratetful. Is it the cutie in your AV?

Yes!!! That's my little darling - until she shakes her head and sends the barrettes flying!

- That's thoughtful of you, Jesique! Enjoy your visit!



Thanks! I'm super excited to go home...it's been over a year. Actually...thinking of that...my mom will still have her tree up. My dad wouldn't let her put it up till after xmas (they've been renovating the kitchen and he didn't want to haul all that stuff out of the attic)...so it'll still be up for a while. :D

As for being thoughtful for Alec...I try. He threw his back out on NYE and I don't want him doing anything to hurt it more. :D

Nadine.

Chatter here you go..

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Thanks! I'm super excited to go home...it's been over a year. Actually...thinking of that...my mom will still have her tree up. My dad wouldn't let her put it up till after xmas (they've been renovating the kitchen and he didn't want to haul all that stuff out of the attic)...so it'll still be up for a while. :D

Another one who's gonna stretch it out! I'm thinking of who I can invite for a visit so I'll have an excuse to leave my stuff up!


As for being thoughtful for Alec...I try. He threw his back out on NYE and I don't want him doing anything to hurt it more. :D

My then-husband threw his back out one NYE doing "the worm" (a dance that you lay down and wiggle around the floor for the information of you yunguns) - but I take it Alec was doing something else??? ;)

I usually leave mine up until Jan. 6th, too, not just because of the epiphany, but also because I enjoy them so much I don't want to see them go. We seem to rush, rush so much during December that I don't feel like I get to enjoy them enough.

I have a friend who keeps a Christmas tree up all year long. :)

That's a good point, Whiterose, leave it up for some extra time when we can actually relax and enjoy it!

I've heard of people leaving a tree up all year, sometimes for very sad reasons, and I've seen reports on television about people that have every room in their home decorated for Christmas to the point that they just couldn't put everything away and put it back out each year, so they just leave it and enjoy it!

I like the live tree idea. A member of the family in whose bookstore I work part-time has had a live Christmas tree for years. Most of the year the potted pine lives outdoors, but is rolled in and decorated for Christmas.

Seasonal things really need to have seasons, otherwise no one would notice them anymore. But we can maybe extend the time they're up. Christmas decoration is good for around five weeks--the beginning of Advent through Epiphany. Next holiday is Valentine's Day. Starbucks has their V-day merch out already! So maybe it's time to start decorating the house in that loooove shack look you've always wanted.;)

I once left mine up until Feb :eek:

I like the live tree idea. A member of the family in whose bookstore I work part-time has had a live Christmas tree for years. Most of the year the potted pine lives outdoors, but is rolled in and decorated for Christmas.

Seasonal things really need to have seasons, otherwise no one would notice them anymore. But we can maybe extend the time they're up. Christmas decoration is good for around five weeks--the beginning of Advent through Epiphany. Next holiday is Valentine's Day. Starbucks has their V-day merch out already! So maybe it's time to start decorating the house in that loooove shack look you've always wanted.


True, but what's to say I can't string up some heart-shaped lights and decorate the tree with hearts??? I'm not saying I'm GOING to ... I'm just sayin' .... :cool: Edit Add: But you are absolutely correct. One of the reasons that I can take them down is because I know how nice it will be to take them out next December! :D

I agree that red and green lights and decorations are strongly identified with Christmas, but if the lights are white, it doesn't seem to matter if they stay up all winter. I've seen people leave their white icicle lights up all winter and many restaurants decorate trees outside and inside with white lights for the winter, but I love the multi-colored lights! :)

I once left mine up until Feb :eek:


Why: Company? Couldn't stand to take them down? Didn't get around to it?

because I wanted too :p

True, but what's to say I can't string up some heart-shaped lights and decorate the tree with hearts???

The LOOOVE tree! What an excellent idea! And for V-day there can be packages under the tree, but they could be different kinds of gifts than the ones given for Christmas. . . ;)

Chatter,
I still have my tree up lol but going to have to undo it by the week-end. I also love the christmas decorations but its true that if you would leave them all year long at some point you would not even notice them.

Maybe it's a French Canadian thing, but as a kid, my parents always left the tree and decorations up until January 6th, the Epiphany/King's Day as well.

Am I the only one that really dislikes taking down the decorations after January 1st??? My home seems so EMPTY and DULL without them!!! :(

I don't want to leave everything up ... maybe just the tree??? :)

Maybe I should buy lights and decorations for every holiday???

Does anyone have different decorations for their tree --- or is that exclusively for December???

You're not the only one. I leave my interior decorations up usually through the first week of January, sometimes longer. It is, after all, a holiday season:)

Dan

Im a big fan of Christmas.I would leave the decorations up until March if I had the chance! Your not alone.

I usually take mine down within a couple of weeks after the 1st. I might leave the lights up inside the windows this year, though. I've done that before, elsewhere. It's kinda fun to have little lights up in the windows, year-round.

Here in the mtns, it's not totally uncommon for people to leave some lights up year-round. It's not like every house or every block, but you see it here and there and no one really thinks anything of it.

I was planning on coming home this evening and taking the candy canes and snowmen out of the front lawn. However, it dumped about a foot of snow by 2:00 today so not only is that wedging all those things in but I shoveled part of the drive and that's on the lawn, too. I might not be getting those decorations out for a few weeks!

I bought some really cool, tacky bass fish lights last year, and I haven't put them up yet. Come spring, I'm going to string them along my front stoop overhang. They'll go great with my wood-carved and bamboo rainbow trout windchime. :D

And don't forget to put lights on the umbrella that goes over your patio table!

Im a big fan of Christmas.I would leave the decorations up until March if I had the chance! Your not alone.

Reminded me of the time that my mom left the Christmas tree up until Easter.

Damn Hippie Mom... :cool:


She also strung lights up in the ficus tree one year and they stayed there forever.

You know, we really shoulda had a thread with people posting pictures of their holiday lights. Next year, eh..?

We celebrate January 6th, the Epiphany/Kings' Day and my kids always get a gift to keep the tradition alive as when I was a kid back home. I used to get my gifts on that day instead of Christmas' day.

Then my tree will go down...

I better get out and go shopping, for the 3 wise men are on their way here! :D

You know, we really shoulda had a thread with people posting pictures of their holiday lights. Next year, eh..?

Yes, I agree. I have a picture of my tree that I'll post.

I've spent all day today taking down the decorations inside. Phil gave a hand until he left for work. Tomorrow is the day to take down the outside. Somehow it always seems like you have more decorations to put away than you had to put up, doesn't it?

Love the idea of leaving the decorations up for a while longer. The wife made me take them down on the 3rd. This thread does remind me of a little story about my mother-in-law though. She apparently left the outside lights on their place up until the 15th of January and offended a neighbor. That neighbor being the kind and considerate person she was, asked about my mother-in-law's upbringing as illustrated by her lack of care concerning the image of the neighborhood.

Forgive me for saying that my mother-in-law is stubborn. I love her very dearly, but the fourth of July fireworks were accompanied by a bright Christmas light display on that very year.:D How can you not love a woman like that?

Yes, I agree. I have a picture of my tree that I'll post.

I've spent all day today taking down the decorations inside. Phil gave a hand until he left for work. Tomorrow is the day to take down the outside. Somehow it always seems like you have more decorations to put away than you had to put up, doesn't it?

Shoot. I didn't do a tree this year, and I already took the stuff off of the front lawn.

I put away less than I put out. A couple of things were partially-broken but I still put them up (the snow hid the broken parts). Miss Dainty here ripped a few cheesey electrical connections and decided to toss all of the ones that were going to need repair next year - avoid the headache NOW.