how long do you typically keep a gingerbread house for?

[Anonymous]

DD and I decorated our first gingerbread house this weekend. Since we are beginners, we went with a pre-fab one from Wiltons. DH is asking me how long I plan on keeping this. I assume that it will last just fine to Christmas? He's also asking if we would eat it. I was assuming that DD could graze on the candy decor but the gingerbread might taste like cardboard?

[Anonymous]

We keep ours until New Year’s Eve and them smash them. My son will pick a few pieces on candy off now and then, but they get pretty stuck on (and stale). We use the kits now, and I do not suggest eating the house.

[Anonymous]

Same as the PPer that New Years is the end date for houses

[Anonymous]

My kids live to decorate the prebuilt kit I buy. We put on Christmas music and they graze on the decorations as they work. We don’t really eat it beyond that though. Just keep it around as a decoration until all the decorations come down. Could be New Years, could be later.

[Anonymous]

Same keep until New Years and we do not eat it.

[Anonymous]

DH makes us get rid of them MLK day in January. Yes they will last until then, no, we don't eat them.

[Anonymous]

The only eating is done while making it

[Anonymous]

How much equity do you have?

[Anonymous]

Hahahaha!. My swimmers decorate these houses and go to practice. They come home and eat a wall. We are lucky if the houses last 48 hours!

I think they taste like cardboard the minute they come out of the box.

[Anonymous]

My 3 kids made ours last weekend. I’ll toss them Thursday, garbage day. Currently they look a London neighborhood post WWII blitz; most candy has been picked off, chimney eaten, half a wall here and there…icing sprinkled on the floor

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We keep ours until New Year’s Eve and them smash them. My son will pick a few pieces on candy off now and then, but they get pretty stuck on (and stale). We use the kits now, and I do not suggest eating the house.

this exactly

[Anonymous]

My kids admire their efforts for a week or two and then start eating them. I'll eat some of it too. We tend to use lots of extra frosting and extra candy to make it more palatable. (Our houses are usually completely covered with thick frosting and candy pieces.)

[Anonymous]

We trash it when we take down the rest of our holiday decorations. DD has slowly been eating the candy of it but the ginger bread is not very good for eating.