when do you take xmas decs down?

[newandlearning]

hi all..

I don't know why but around now i already get itchy feet to take down the xmas decs.. I was just wondering when everyone else does? apparently they should be down by the 12th night which is 5th/6th jan or its bad luck.. is it also bad luck to take down earlier than that?

I've already taken a few bits down just to tidy up the place a bit.. :):)

[Tealady]

hi all..

I don't know why but around now i already get itchy feet to take down the xmas decs.. I was just wondering when everyone else does? apparently they should be down by the 12th night which is 5th/6th jan or its bad luck.. is it also bad luck to take down earlier than that?

I've already taken a few bits down just to tidy up the place a bit.. :):)

I know the feeling! LOL

Mine only went up on the 22nd this year so not feeling too bad yet, but they always come down after breakfast on the 2nd.

[catminder]

I don't think it's bad luck to take them down before 12th night. I usually leave them up til then but I feel like taking mine down now too - probably because I've got a bit of time on my hands. (apart from my fibre optic tree - I love it and want to keep that up all year round!):)

[nannysue]

I always take mine down on Jan 1st .... i don't drink or go out on New Yers Eve so i've a clear head to start the dismantling.:D

Then i have a nice clean, tidy house ..... with so much more room, ready to start the New Year :thumbsup:

[breezy]

mine came down yesterday:blush: got sick of them and we always take them down before new years eve as it's dd birthday:clapping:

[Penny1959]

I take most down in the early hours of Jan 1st - as I like to have a fresh start to the new year - I never do anything for New Years eve so always have a clear head.

However Dh is superstious and insists on leaving up the wreath on the front door until 12th night :(


Penny :)

[Velleity]

Took mine down today. My christmas spirit evaporated along with the money in my bank account :laughing:

[Carol M]

Take mine down as soon as poss on New Years day. Love my tree but wanting to get rid off now and re plan my childminding environment.
Carol xx

[AliceK]

Took mine down today. My christmas spirit evaporated along with the money in my bank account :laughing:

:laughing: Same here, on both counts

xxx

[LeeMarie]

I like to keep all the decorations up for New Year's Day but can't wait to put them all away on 2nd Jan ready for all my mindees coming back and before my kids go back to school.

[amanda1309]

Mine came down today:)

[Chatterbox Childcare]

Going away tomorrow for new years and back on the 2nd so mine will either come down on the 2nd or sometime during the week

[tashaleee]

Will be taking ours down on 1st so house will be back to 'normal' for the mindees :thumbsup:

[cupcake22]

I will take mine down on the 2nd as I am back at work on 3rd Jan. The house always looks so bare though.

Cupcake22

[watgem]

new years day too and I have a bloomin good tidy up, I think that may be bad luck but I still do it

[miss mopple]

Mine came down today :clapping:

Usually they are down by the 27th, if not on boxing day :blush:

[Mrs Book]

Mine will come down this weekend. They are usually down before the children go back to school or mindees start back.

[Chimps Childminding]

I usually take mine down on the 1st Jan while everyone else is still sleeping off their hangovers :laughing: I have already taken down the cards and the childminding stuff in the dining room was taken down when I finished work last Thursday so it looked more like a dining room than a playroom for Christmas dinner!!!

[Playmate]

Whilst my decs are still up I'm still on holiday, so mine aren't coming down before the 2nd :D

[rickysmiths]

Mine stay up for New Year but are down by 4th jan, dd birthday.

[LOOPYLISA]

News yrs day if we are home or the 2nd, mum told me today 12th night :rolleyes::D

[catswhiskers]

I usually try to wait until 12 days after - even though I don't usually put them up until a week before.

Strange how some people can't wait to get them down even though they couldn't wait to get them up - a month in advance sometimes.

Not being funny or anything but Christmas is so commercialised nowadays that I find it so much build up to just one day!

[Cammie Doodle]

I would like to put them away, but I keep hearing my Mum say it's bad luck before 12 th night, I'm taking no chances, so mine are staying till then lol

[onceinabluemoon]

I took our tree down on Wednesday, but the rest are still up at the moment. Not sure how long for but I am 'on holiday' until Tuesday so plenty of time to sort them out.

[christine e]

I usually try to wait until 12 days after - even though I don't usually put them up until a week before.

Strange how some people can't wait to get them down even though they couldn't wait to get them up - a month in advance sometimes.

Not being funny or anything but Christmas is so commercialised nowadays that I find it so much build up to just one day!

totally agree with you - ours will stay up at least until `12th night

Cx

[The Juggler]

I thought it was only bad luck if you left them up AFTER 12th night :panic::( was gonna take mine down this weekend but might not now. :panic:

[Toothfairy]

Mine come down on New Years Day.
I hate the thought of xmas dec's from the year before (2011) still being up in a new year (2012). Call me daft but it just doesn't feel right :blush:

[FussyElmo]

I thought it was only bad luck if you left them up AFTER 12th night :panic::( was gonna take mine down this weekend but might not now. :panic:

I thought this too,

Ours is coming down today as me and dh are sorting the loft out today. I probably would leave it till next week but not sure what dh is working yet and dont want to go past the 6th. So much for him getting 6 weeks rota in adavance :rolleyes:

I cant get into the loft and all the junk from christmas is in my room :)

[Mollymop]

I take mine down on New Years day :) I'm not working til after new years so still my Xmas holidays x

[peanuts]

i took mine down this morning. usually wait until after the new year, but as it was in front of the window with blinds shut since near the beginning of december it was doing my head in, how have the blinds open and light back in my livingroom

[Cassie]

Today :clapping: :clapping: All done and dusted till next Dec! House is lovely and clean,no children till Tues, paperwork nearly done...All ready for 2012..

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! :jump for joy:

[dette]

takin mine down on the first as have a party new years eve and didn't want to appear to be a grinch .Cant wait to have a good tidy up.Only found the front half of my livingroom today.My kids got so much stuff i have no idea where its all going.We're in the middle of getting our loft bedroom ..where our eldest has her bedroom so she's sleeping in my toy room,she says she feels homeless,no where to keep anything or put her presents away.My 4 boys took some of their stuff up to the room that they all share and now they have no floor at all !!!!.I think i'm going to secretly knock a hole through to nextdoor and start storing things in there or....hire a skip

[Rubybubbles]

Mine came down today along with the lovely amount of bleech to clean the house:laughing:

[zillervalley]

have mine up till the 2nd this year start work the 3rd


ziller

[newandlearning]

I'm thinking of taking our down tomorrow now as got xmas decs box floating around my bedroom at the mo and could do with space back.. I decided that keeping them up as long as possible does seem to keep me in xmas mode still.. and I am quite liking the continual feeling of being f estive.. bubble popping soon.. :littleangel:

[PixiePetal]

mine are gone and we are now in the process of changing the sitting room around for when we get new sofa (delivery in March :rolleyes:) might as well get on with it while the room is in chaos anyway

also making use of DS who has been taking boxes up to the loft room :thumbsup:

[LOOPYLISA]

Done ours today, lovely and clean and tidy and sooooo spacey :D

[lolli_pop243]

I only have the tree and a cane wreath over the fireplace, and I follow Italian tradition in that respect, and take them down on the 6th after the Epiphany. The kids get chocolates and small toys in their stockings on the day and we pack them all away then.:)

[Hebs]

mine are down :clapping:

[ziggy]

was going to leave mine up till 12th night but children returning weds and wanna have good clean up today then chill tomorra, so they are coming down today. Just announced on facebook i am not available to anyone for next 2 days lol

[Carol M]

All gone :clapping:
Curtains washed, ironed and re hung. Huge clean underway, can't believe how big my house looks without childminding stuff. Tomorrow will be spent getting things out of garage and sorting.
Haven't finished paperwork, will do in first couple of weeks of new term.
DH has agreed to build me lean too structure to cover my patio for outside play in bad weather/hot weather. But only when we can afford the materials :laughing:
It's a good feeling to blow the cobwebs away and start a fresh.
Carol xx

[Pipsqueak]

the decs have slowly been coming down over the last few days

everything has gone today.... house blizted and cleaned

ready to start work tomorrow

[solly]

All mine have come down today although this is the 1st year for as long as i can remember i haven't done it DH has done it as am still bandaged up and arm in a sling

[rickysmiths]

Everything will be gone today ready for work tomorrow and dd birthday on Wed.

[sarahjane]

All decorations now down and a massive clean up underway. I have no mindee's now until Wednesday as the one I have tomorrow has text to say he's spending the day with his grandparents over from France so if I get it all done today I can have a lovely quiet day tomorrow before things go back to normal on Wednesday .

[The Juggler]

ours came down today as dh is back to work tomorrow. how much mess does it make taking them down :panic::panic:

all hoovered up now and decs are boxed ready to go in attic later on :clapping::clapping:

[Pauline]

Just took the Forum ones down, bye bye Christmas :(

They are down at home too now, looking very bare indeed around here.

[loocyloo]

my tree is coming down today as mindees arrive tomorrow!

going to leave the cards & few other bits up/around until the weekend!

[PixiePetal]

just found a stray paper snowflake hanging on the landing window :laughing: will get it down later then that's it!

[Chimps Childminding]

For the first year ever, mine are still up after New Years Day!! I had a really busy time over Christmas week-end then worked Weds, Thurs last week, so decided I was going to have a lazy weekend :blush: - so decs still up. Will take them down on Friday as I don't work then, stash it all back in the loft and give the house a good clean!!! :clapping:

[boxtree7]

All down today ........ it does annoy me when you think you have collected all the christmas stuff box it shut the loft come down and you see just one you forgot and back up you go.