Have ye still got your Christmas decorations up?

Spring Onion

Have ye still got your Christmas decorations up?

I just started taking them down today. It's depressing taking them down. I have left them up until February in recent years...kinda makes January easier somehow.

Sir Arthur Daley

I take them down just before Paddys day.

BillyMitchel

Spring Onion wrote: »

Have ye still got your Christmas decorations up?

I just started taking them down today. It's depressing taking them down. I have left them up until February in recent years...kinda makes January easier somehow.

Are you mental? I don't believe you.

121 Gigawatts!?

Still up, cant bring myself to take them down
I like your February idea though...

Mollyd90

Yeah but out of laziness than liking them up. Going to start taking them down tonight

Phill Ewinn

Megathread....

kneemos

Spring Onion wrote: »

Have ye still got your Christmas decorations up?

I just started taking them down today. It's depressing taking them down. I have left them up until February in recent years...kinda makes January easier somehow.

That's disturbing.

keano_afc

Just took the tree out there a few mins ago. Still have some lights up.

FreshKnickers

I still have me Easter decorations up.

Mrs Garth Brooks

Yeah ours is still up. Its great. I would love to leave them up till June.

Jimmy Garlic

Can't wait to take the rubbish down myself, usually we take what little we put up down before the new year. Hate Christmas, its consumer zombism, all its associated junk and crappy music with an absolute passion.

looking_around

(O_O)

that is all

RayM

After New Year's Day, I find Christmas decorations very depressing to look at. I recently heard somebody describe it as "like seeing porn after the **** is over".

Boscoirl

Took down the tree last night, it was more tedious than putting it up

it was still up due to laziness in the evenings after work and drinking at the weekends,

I wanted to throw a sheet over it till next year, but the other half disagreed

Sir Humphrey Appleby

Didn't put any up to take down, Bah feckin Humbug!:mad:

Spring Onion

BillyMitchel wrote: »

Are you mental? I don't believe you.

Come out from under my bed and look for yourself. You can also help me haul the stuff up to the attic.

efb

Down since the 4th

keith16

Only took ours down last Saturday.

I don't get people taking them down the 1st / 2nd of Jan.

Why not leave them up for the actual duration of Christmas instead of letting the shops tell you when to do it?

efb

keith16 wrote: »

Only took ours down last Saturday.

I don't get people taking them down the 1st / 2nd of Jan.

Why not leave them up for the actual duration of Christmas instead of letting the shops tell you when to do it?

Its over for me on the 1st

Jimmy Garlic

keith16 wrote: »

Only took ours down last Saturday.

I don't get people taking them down the 1st / 2nd of Jan.

Why not leave them up for the actual duration of Christmas instead of letting the shops tell you when to do it?

The duration of Christmas is one day.

keith16

efb wrote: »

Its over for me on the 1st

Fair enough. For me it's the 6th. I put the tree up the weekend before Christmas and take it down the weekend after the 6th.

So typically, that's only 2-3 weeks.

Each to their own and all that, but I just don't get people putting the decorations up well in advance and then getting rid of them at the first sight of creme eggs in the shops.

looking_around

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

The duration of Christmas is one day.

actually isn't it the 24th dec to the 6th of jan?

keith16

looking_around wrote: »

actually isn't it the 24th dec to the 6th of jan?

Yeah, last I heard there was 12 days of Christmas.

WoollyRedHat

Think the tree might be decaying and the possibility of it becoming zombified grows bigger by the minute. I don't to be strangled in my sleep with Christmas lights, thank you very much.

Birroc

A few years ago we moved into a new build a few weeks before Xmas. I was in Atlantic Homecare around Dec 27th and spotted some brilliant deals on Xmas trees and decorations in the sales so I bought a 2nd tree and stuff. I put the new tree into the completely undecorated/unfinished sitting room and threw some tinsel on it and a few baubles. That room remained unfinished for over a year and I never took down the tree. Which meant the tree was up for a full 12 months. It was actually quite unnerving whenever I looked into that room.

Mollyd90

Mollyd90 wrote: »

Yeah but out of laziness than liking them up. Going to start taking them down tonight

no still up, didnt get around to it

efb

keith16 wrote: »

Fair enough. For me it's the 6th. I put the tree up the weekend before Christmas and take it down the weekend after the 6th.

So typically, that's only 2-3 weeks.

Each to their own and all that, but I just don't get people putting the decorations up well in advance and then getting rid of them at the first sight of creme eggs in the shops.

Up the 18th

Ihatecuddles

BillyMitchel wrote: »

Are you mental? I don't believe you.

I took Christmas 2012's decorations down in September 2013.....only because I moved

omb0wyn5ehpij9

Nope, they were taken take on January 7th. It's the same every year!

Il Trap

:eek:

Mental how many people replying to this thread still have their decorations up! Not judging but, come on... :pac:

xabi

I Lived in a student house where we had them up all year round because no-one could be ar$3d taking them down.

josip

Leave them up and lights on including the outside until January 14th every year.

keith16

efb wrote: »

Up the 18th

Is this some kind of "RA" slogan?

Spring Onion

I knew loads of people would still have the decorations up.

http://www.xmasclock.com/

Agricola

Would be depressing to be still looking at them in mid January. Even more depressing than Xmas actually being over. Take 'em down. The games up.

efb

keith16 wrote: »

Is this some kind of "RA" slogan?

I have no allegiances with the anti abortion crazies

That_Guy

Decorations have been down a while but there's still a few in the area who still have their Christmas lights up on the outside of the house.