When do you take down Christmas decorations?

[Martinus]

[Ideologue]

I don't even know what some of those holidays are.  Epiphany?  Candlemass?

[Monoriu]

Can't afford Christmas decorations.

[Syt]

What Christmas decorations?

[Syt]

Candlemass?

[celedhring]

After Epiphany, that's when Christmas finishes here in Spain.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Just took them down today.  My wife wanted to leave them up until after epiphany, whatever that is, but the weather is going to go back to being shitty tomorrow, so meh.

[Martinus]

I don't even know what some of those holidays are.  Epiphany?  Candlemass?

Epiphany aka the Twelth Day of Christmas aka Feast of Three Wise Men is 6 January. It is a public holiday in some Catholic countries (including, since 2011 or so, in Poland).

The Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, which falls on 2 February, celebrates an early episode in the life of Jesus. In the Eastern Orthodox Church and some Eastern Catholic Churches, it is one of the twelve Great Feasts, and is sometimes called Hypapante (Ὑπαπαντή, lit., "Meeting" in Greek). Other traditional names include Candlemas, the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin, and the Meeting of the Lord

In Polish Catholicism Candlemas is a traditional end of the Christmas period.

[Martinus]

Just took them down today.  My wife wanted to leave them up until after epiphany, whatever that is, but the weather is going to go back to being shitty tomorrow, so meh.

Well, Epiphany is in two days so it didnt make much of a difference.

[PJL]

You take them down before Epiphany, otherwise it's bad luck.

[Capetan Mihali]

I don't know; when you leave the lights up all year, it sort of becomes a metaphysical question when you take them and when you put them up.

Now when do you turn on and turn off your electric reindeer and white "icicle" lights, that's a tricky one.

[Ideologue]

I don't even know what some of those holidays are.  Epiphany?  Candlemass?

Epiphany aka the Twelth Day of Christmas aka Feast of Three Wise Men is 6 January. It is a public holiday in some Catholic countries (including, since 2011 or so, in Poland).

Get back to work!

[Grey Fox]

After New Year, usually the 3. This year they were taking down on the 1st. I also took down the exterior lights, something I usually do in the spring when the snow is all gone but this year the snow was already gone.

[Josephus]

As an old world Catholic, I used to wait until Epiphany.
Now it seems I do it sooner each year.
I think I spent Jan.1 cleaning up and removing Christmas stuff.

[Agelastus]

You take them down before Epiphany, otherwise it's bad luck.

Depends which day you consider Twelfth Night to be (it can be either the 5th or 6th January depending on your traditions.)

Ours will come down on the 6th, as always.