Slightly sad taking decorations down

Yes, I think "wistful" is a good word to use. Our decorations came down on Saturday and the room is now back to normal, but always seems bare for a while until I get used to it again. I think January always feels a bit flat after the festivities, but on the positive side, the daylight hours are slowly lengthening as has already been mentioned by some other posters. It really won't be long before we can think of gardening projects again! ?

Yes, our decorations have gone now and wistful is a very good word for how I feel. There were a few more, and coarser, words being used earlier when I realised the only way to get our oversized tree out without carpeting half the house with needles was to lop off every branch in situ with our old and blunt secateurs. DH was out and missed the fun, but came home to two bin bags full of branches, one bare trunk in a tree holder and me moaning about my aching hands and fretting about blisters. And so it ends for another year. At least the front room looks a lot bigger.

Well that's why we make such a big thing of it in the UK. We need something to brighten the long winter and short days.

Taking cards down is sad but I don't send so many now and use electric cards. I always feel guilty if I get a real one and haven't sent one.

Well try a Birthday between Christmas and New Year, then you would have something to moan about.

Invite some friends for a drink (tea or wine) and cake on your Birthday and cheer up their January. Happy Birthday.

I always feel sad, I think it stems from my childhood as it was when my nanny went home too. I used to sit in bed and cry when she went. My birthday January too. Nobody seems to have much enthusiasm or interest in it.

I should have planted some bulbs in pots for indoors!

I always replace my Christmas tree with a few daffodils ? always makes me think spring is around the corner

I am always a bit sad too, I like them up for as long as possible, and usually leave them up till the 6th. This year though, they came down 3 days ago as we knew we were in for a few busy days and wouldn't have the time. The house looks so bare!

We're more like you, suelowe. We usually put the tree and decorations up the weekend before Christmas, which means that this year it was a whole week before Christmas Eve, if that makes sense. It all came down today - although there is always one decoration which manages to escape and has to be rounded up later and put into the box in the garage!

Each to their own
I prefer the anticipation to the event and enjoy my decorations through December.All packed away for the New Year.
January is for starting anew.

Mine were down the day after Boxing Day and it’s lovely to get the house back to normal and get on with life instead of Christmas. Don’t mind January, the evenings are starting to open just a bit and we do get some lovely clear crisp days. As long as it does t rain all day I don’t mind. Also a time to pick up hobbies and start new projects. And we always book a few days away somewhere in this country just to break up the month.

I've just finished putting my house back to normal. I was a bit sad.

I’m really confused ! We’re all ( ? ) grans , so surely we know Advent is most of December , up to Christmas Eve , then the 12 Days of Christmas start , till Twelfth Night , 5/6 th January . If everyone stuck to this instead of falling for Commerce ,which “ starts “ Christmas at the end of October, and is now pushing Easter eggs on us .....I’m sure we’d all be more content . I put my cards , tree , etc , up on Christmas Eve , and took them down this morning ...a bit sad , but that’s better than being sick of the sight of them by Boxing Day . Will I get shot down in flames for this , I wonder .....

I can't say I really love January but I do quite like it. There are often some lovely, bright and crisp days - albeit short ones! But it is getting lighter and you can see a marked lengthening of the days by the end of the month. After the gloom of December, there's a whole new year beckoning and, whatever it brings, there will be something positive.

Love putting them up, love taking them down on January 1st.

Once the decorations are down I'm always keen to make a start on the New Year. I quite like January - long evenings to try a new hobby.

I'm spending tomorrow sorting mine

My all living Christmas Tree has been removed from the front garden into the rear garden stripped of its lovely lights and the frontage of the house looks so bare now,but hey-ho not long for replacement hanging baskets to brighten up the kerb appeal.
Everything indoors packed away in the loft until next year all dusting done and back to normal.

I feel sad but DH couldn't wait to take decs down.

Well, the decorations are down but not all packed away and certainly nothing dusted!
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I was late this year due to illness - they didn't come down until the 30th

January always seems to be grey and dreary, but nevertheless I wasn't sorry to get the decs down. In my book Christmas is well and truly over by about 28th December, haha, and once New Year is done and dusted, then Christmas feels like light years ago! Glad to get everything down and packed away and back to normal

I might keep my outdoor lights up ,the white ones .Twinkly lights aren't just for Christmas and it really brightens the garden and the street when they're lit.

January should be designated as a hibernation month.

I agree .January always seems such a grey month ! Grampy has a January birthday , only ray of sunshine xxx

No I don’t like January much but don’t feel sad about decs, they were down Jan 2nd and put away with pleasure ?