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Outdoor lights on house will no longer be used after January 1st, but stay in place until safe enough to get them down (requires going on the roof, so most here leave them in place until safe on the roof, could be a window during the January thaw or could be March).
Indoor decorations are packed up and in storage, except for the tree. That and lights/decorations on it will come down and go into storage on New Years Day. Usually everything in the house is already packed up, but my daughter wanted the tree up for New Years Eve.
Lights and decorations were taken down and put away on Christmas Day this year. The usual routine is everything comes down New Year's Day but once in a while things come down earlier. This is the first year everything was put away before the holiday was over.
If you actually celebrate the real Christmas and not the secular version that starts after Halloween, you would still be celebrating the Christmas octave, through which lights are definitely appropriate. Could even extend it a few more days after that to the Feast of the Epiphany on Jan 6. So I tend to do my lights from Gaudete Sunday (3rd week of Advent) to the Epiphany.
Well, I consider the Christmas holiday season to be from the day after Thanksgiving through January 6, or at least from the start of Advent through Epiphany. I swear, our next door neighbors, who had an elaborate Christmas brouhaha in their front yard, must have rushed home from across town and taken down everything before they even had a piece of pecan pie and coffee Christmas afternoon!
I have a good friend who always throws a fabulous holiday party during the week between Christmas and New Years and she always has everything in her house and yard decorated and looking great. It's one of my favorite yearly events.
I don't do all this decorating for two or three weeks, I'll tell you that much. I'm going to celebrate for at least five weeks, maybe even six or so!
Yes, if you're going to take them down on Christmas Day, then what's the point? If you want the season to be over so quick, why decorate in the first place? The very idea of using any of your Christmas Day to take down the decorations is an abomination!
Really, the Christmas stuff should go up the week after Thanksgiving, perhaps a little later with your tree, if you use a real one, as they can dry out before Christmas if you put it up too soon. Never later than December 10th. Otherwise, you should leave ALL of your Christmas decorations up thru New Years Day, which marks the end of the holiday season. On Jan 2nd or after, then it's OK to take down the decorations, with one important exception. If Jan 2nd falls on a Sunday, thou shalt not remove decorations which celebrate the lord Jesus on the Sabbath Day. Never do that, it is a mortal sin and might condemn you to hell, you must wait until the 3rd, if the 2nd falls on a Sunday.
Yes, if you're going to take them down on Christmas Day, then what's the point? If you want the season to be over so quick, why decorate in the first place? The very idea of using any of your Christmas Day to take down the decorations is an abomination!
Really, the Christmas stuff should go up the week after Thanksgiving, perhaps a little later with your tree, if you use a real one, as they can dry out before Christmas if you put it up too soon. Never later than December 10th. Otherwise, you should leave ALL of your Christmas decorations up thru New Years Day, which marks the end of the holiday season. On Jan 2nd or after, then it's OK to take down the decorations, with one important exception. If Jan 2nd falls on a Sunday, thou shalt not remove decorations which celebrate the lord Jesus on the Sabbath Day. Never do that, it is a mortal sin and might condemn you to hell, you must wait until the 3rd, if the 2nd falls on a Sunday.
As for putting up our decorations, we did it in phases. We turned on our backyard icicle lights the weekend before Thanksgiving. We put up our indoor tree, put our Star Showers, and swapped the orange/yellow/red Thanksgiving light bulbs in our front light fixtures for red/green Christmas bulbs on Black Friday. Finally, we wrapped the tree in our front yard with lights the first weekend of December.
For us, it really comes down to the weather. For this year, we will be taking everything down this weekend because temps should be in the low 60s with no snow on the ground. There was one year where I couldn't take down the outside lights until February due to snow and even then it was a complete pain.
Depends on the weather. We won't light them after Jan 1, I don't think.
DH will take them down soon after Jan 1.
So sad.
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