Anonymous
Post 12/14/2021 12:28     Subject: Re:how long do you typically keep a gingerbread house for?
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.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2021 12:24     Subject: Re:how long do you typically keep a gingerbread house for?
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
Post 12/14/2021 08:42     Subject: Re:how long do you typically keep a gingerbread house for?
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
Post 12/14/2021 08:41     Subject: how long do you typically keep a gingerbread house for?
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
Post 12/13/2021 23:27     Subject: how long do you typically keep a gingerbread house for?
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
Post 12/13/2021 23:20     Subject: how long do you typically keep a gingerbread house for?
How much equity do you have?
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2021 18:36     Subject: how long do you typically keep a gingerbread house for?
The only eating is done while making it
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2021 18:24     Subject: how long do you typically keep a gingerbread house for?
DH makes us get rid of them MLK day in January. Yes they will last until then, no, we don't eat them.
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2021 18:12     Subject: how long do you typically keep a gingerbread house for?
Same keep until New Years and we do not eat it.
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2021 17:37     Subject: how long do you typically keep a gingerbread house for?
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
Post 12/13/2021 16:27     Subject: how long do you typically keep a gingerbread house for?
Same as the PPer that New Years is the end date for houses
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2021 16:16     Subject: Re:how long do you typically keep a gingerbread house for?
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
Post 12/12/2021 21:46     Subject: how long do you typically keep a gingerbread house for?
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?