Please could someone tell me when the decorations should be taken down?

Ours were packed away today. Feel purged! (And less dusty).

Yup!

Have just put the tree back outside. Cards will come down tomorrow.

Christmas is 12 days for me so decorations go up Christmas Eve and that way I am not sick of them before 12th night!

already down and after yesterdays lovely day looking forward to spring!

My mum told me that the bishop of the diocese where she lives has decreed that the crib should remain in churches until the Feast of the Purification which is February!!!! Everyone will be sick of the sight of it by then!

This year is our Golden Wedding Anniversary and we'll be away from 4th January. So they'll be taken down on January 3rd.

Take em down when you like, what's it matter?

I have started this morning, cards etc but have left the outside lights, not sure why. I really do not like all the clutter.

Ooh - I've hated that tree since the day it went up! It blocks the light from the window and makes my room so dark! Once it comes down it will be off to Emmaus and I shall buy a smaller, lighter one next year - maybe white or snow flocked. And the clutter on the mantlepiece - why did I do it? In fact, as soon as I've finished my coffee, out it all goes!

My tree has been up since 1st December so I'm getting a bit bored by them now. I will start putting some of the decorations away after NYD, probably take tinsel off the tree but tree, lights & baubles will stay until 6th January. Wreaths may come down on 5th Jan & packed away for next year. Then it's back to moving furniture & spring clean my Lounge/Diner but not before 10th/11th as I've a busy few days at the beginning of the week I hate housework

When the batteries run out!!

Technically it's the 6th Jan, but surely people just take down decorations when they choose to? Our small (potted) "living" tree won't be happy inside the house for too long, so over this weekend we'll be putting it into the (cooler) hall for a night or two, in preparation for putting it outside on the patio. We hope to bring it inside again, next year.

6th January here. I hate taking them down - I find January so bleak and depressing, at least for the first week or so..

Our tree still looks lovely, despite the fact that it went up on 5th Dec - far earlier than usual - because we had far-flung family coming to stay on the 6th for the usual pre Christmas get-together.

It's in a big bucket of wet gravel and drinking about a litre of water every day!

I read this morning that Her Majesty The Queen leaves hers up at Sandringham until Feb 6th ! Apparently that's the date her Father died and she goes there each year for a quiet day... and likes the decorations to be still there.

So to each their own !

Mine are already down. I love the pared back look after they're packed away. Big vases of pussy willow and forsythia instead - roll on Spring.

Aaagh it's done it again..BUY!!!

but not but.. blasted phone!!!

It's a personal choice but I always take mine down on the 6th? Epiphany,then always ..after cleaning but a lovely bunch of flowers or two .. usually daffodils to remind me ..next stop Spring ?

We’re having the GC on New Year's Eve while their parents go to a party, so the decorations will come down then. They like to help putting the baubles etc. away and I’m really happy to let them. Besides it means we start the New Year with a tidy house.

Tear the whole lot down on Boxing Day and then stuff them away on the top of the wardrobe until next Xmas, otherwise they'll keep making you think (at least until Twelfth Night) "was it REALLY all bloody worth it?"

Though traditionally on 12th night ours will be down before 4th as that is DH's birthday and it clears the mantlepiece for his cards! Also liked to get them down and away before I went back to work/ kids to school!

mine went down on 26th didnt put many up etc sat in box waiting to go back in loft

I've never seen the point of leaving them up until Twelfth Night. We have always had a family meal on NYD and I like them up for that but they come down on 2nd.

I just put new batteries in most of the lights , so they are staying put till next week end

My answer came from Google. 12th night is the night of 5th/6th.
Mine will be down before then and spring cleaning will commence.

I take our down on New Years Day and clean the house through - well DH does most of it while I clear out all the food in the fridge and buy fresh things.