When do you take down Christmas decorations?

[MadBurgerMaker]

The few decorations I have stay up all year (which also applies for my Halloween ones). It is a good thing that I've never set up my nativity set as that'd be up all year too.

What kind of decorations are we talking about here?

[garbon]

The few decorations I have stay up all year (which also applies for my Halloween ones). It is a good thing that I've never set up my nativity set as that'd be up all year too.

What kind of decorations are we talking about here?

Really small ones - knick knacks really. 2 black santa clauses and a nutcracker.

[Brazen]

When I was a kid they'd go up on Christmas Eve and stay up until epiphany/12th night, but now I get sick of them by 2nd January and take them down the same day I empty the fridge of seasonally inappropriate food.

But then I only have an 18" plastic tree and LED lights from the 99p shop.

[Martinus]

Well, I only have a small tree (the picture of which I posted in the Cat Megathread) and a similarly sized reindeer made of pinetree branches (which I initially thought was a doggy). They are already starting to lose needles, so will throw them out after Tuesday.

[Eddie Teach]

The only decorations we bothered with this year are a wreath on the front door that my mother made and a Cthulhu wreath we hung above the fireplace.  Both are still up and I dunno when Princesca will take them down. 

You think the effrontery of the wreath will enrage Cthulhu enough to make him eat you first? 

[Caliga]

 

[KRonn]

I took mine down New Year's day, which is usually about when I do take them down. I leave up the Christmas wreaths on the doors for a while as they make a good winter wreath.

[celedhring]

Just had a chat with my mother regarding this issue, and after being informed of Candlemas she's decided she'll take them down by then; she loves setting up intrincate Christmas decorations and nativity scenes so she'll use any excuse to keep them up.

[Martinus]

Just had a chat with my mother regarding this issue, and after being informed of Candlemas she's decided she'll take them down by then; she loves setting up intrincate Christmas decorations and nativity scenes so she'll use any excuse to keep them up.

Did you mention the tip came from a gay ex-Catholic Polish lawyer and a gay Catholic British lawyer? 

[celedhring]

Well, she's Catholic and she's fine with gays. She's more likely to be bothered about me conferring with lawyers.

[Brezel]

St. Knut's day .

[Martinus]

Well, she's Catholic and she's fine with gays. She's more likely to be bothered about me conferring with lawyers.

I was alluding more to the credibility of the source.

[celedhring]

When it comes to pomp and decorations, I can hardly picture better sources than Catholic gays. 

[Sheilbh]

Did you mention the tip came from a gay ex-Catholic Polish lawyer and a gay Catholic British lawyer? 

I'm going Anglo-Catholic nowadays.

Because the Catholic Church is just too frumpy

[Monoriu]

Actually, our management company does not allow Christmas decorations on the apartment doors or in the corridors.  But people still do it.  As long as the decorations aren't too large, the security guards turn a blind eye.