Who else still has Xmas decorations up?

[Anonymous]

The holidays are done. I would feel weird having holiday decorations in my house.

[Anonymous]

We did ours today. I wish I was motivated sooner but the last several years it has been MLK weekend. I despite January - it has no redeeming qualities.

[Anonymous]

It loses the holiday specialness if it's up too long.

[Anonymous]

We took the last of our indoor decorations down today. I had surgery on New Year’s Eve so they stayed up for longer than normal. Our outdoor decorations are still up but we unplugged them. It’s bitterly cold here and snows more every couple of days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It loses the holiday specialness if it's up too long.

This is true.

We had reason to skip decorating a couple times. After 2 years, it was really special putting up all the decorations. Most years my thought is, how in the world did the year go by so quickly - seems we just took everything down.

[Anonymous]

I don't celebrate Christmas, so I don't have decorations, but I was driving after dark today and saw several homes with outdoor Christmas lights still up. I also saw several lit up chrismtas trees through open windows.

[Anonymous]

We have one fake tree still up in our family room. No one is motivated to take it down. We were out of town for two weeks around Christmas and don’t feel like we got to enjoy it. Everything else got put away New Year’s weekend.

[Anonymous]

It’s time to take them down (absent extenuating circumstances, e.g. health).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s time to take them down (absent extenuating circumstances, e.g. health).

Why?

[Anonymous]

My neighbor still has their orange pumpkin on the front porch.

[Anonymous]

The red xmas stuff has morphed into valentines day decor!

[Anonymous]

I put it up after Thanksgiving and take down by January 7.

[Anonymous]

All Christmas decorations are down but we left up white lights outside bc January sucks and twinkle lights lift my spirits. I really don’t care if neighbors think we’re lazy. I got up on a ladder and took down all the garland and red/green decorations. These winter lights are intentional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It loses the holiday specialness if it's up too long.

That’s what I always think when people say they leave it up year round and just switch out decor , or the lady who left it up last year and then it got dusty. Part of what makes Christmas feel special is when the tree is fully up and lit and you get to enjoy that brief time with it. If it became a feature of the house it wouldn’t feel special anymore.

[Anonymous]

Keeping up twinkle lights all year round is equivalent to the shopping centers that have them up on the trees all year round (like at Rockville town center) - it doesn’t have to be connected to Christmas.