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We're New Englanders living in the South. There's a superstition here that I'd never heard of before. (Actually, I heard it at the hair salon the other day and my daughter verified it.)
It's bad luck to have your Christmas decorations up when New Year's Day rolls around. Something about bringing the old year into the new one.
Personally, I put mine up around the second weekend in December and take them down the week after Christmas.
I always take the Christmas decorations down before New Years Day - my mom said it was bad luck to have them up on New Years Day. Maybe it is a Southern thing!
I don't want to test the superstition.... mine are put away
And I will be having blackeyed peas and collard greens tomorrow!
Inside, sometime around the 6th of January or so (refer back to my posts about the Christmas Elf From Hell aka Mrs. NBP and when they go up).
Outside? It depends on weather (I don't like to get on the roof when there's ice/snow on it) and what else I have going on, keeping in mind that I'm goose hunting Saturdays in January.
A couple years ago we had a stretch of bad weather so they were up until the middle of the month when the lady (term used loosely) who owns the investment house next door mentioned them being up during a Public Comment time at a Town Council meeting. That year the outside lights became Martin Luther King Day lights, Groundhog Day lights, Valentine's Day lights, St. Patrick's Day lights, Easter lights and Memorial Day lights. Hasn't been mentioned since.
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You take them down after the Epiphany (Jan 6th) 
