Post by Patsy Baloney on Nov 18, 2024 11:29:21 GMT -5
Epiphany decoration takedown forever and ever amen.
Halloween is Oct. 1 Thanksgiving Nov. 1 Christmas on Black Friday - we cut down our tree, decorate, decorate the house. Usually outdoor lights are the day after, but this year we’re going to get them up the weekend before thanksgiving before the weather turns.
Post by mrsslocombe on Nov 18, 2024 11:30:54 GMT -5
We usually buy our tree the first week in December. We take it down whenever the city has Mulch Fest, which is the weekend you can bring your tree to city parks and throw it in the wood chipper. I think it's usually the second weekend in January.
I host a 12th night (epiphany) party (because everyone is back in town then). But H is not a fan of leaving up decorations that long. He starts considering taking them down NY day, and I argue for longer. Last year, he took down the outside lights the afternoon of the party (WTH?!). The outside lights I’d leave up until DST starts if I could.
Typically Thanksgiving weekend and we keep it up through New Year's (artificial tree). This year, with Thanksgiving so late, I'm putting up this coming weekend.
Like others we usually do weekend after tgiving, but it's so late and H works that weekend so we will do it Sunday. I do have some fall decorations up, but I put them up in early October, so it's been a while:)
We leave it up until after 3 kings and then happy Mardi Gras!
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We decorate indoors and cut down a tree the day after Thanksgiving, outdoor lights go up sometime when there’s no rain between Halloween and Christmas. Everything but outdoor lights comes down after my kids go to bed on December 25. Outdoor lights usually come down sometime in January. Once a holiday is over I am generally done and want my house back to normal.
Post by thebreakfastclub on Nov 18, 2024 11:57:35 GMT -5
I have no idea what epiphany is, so off to Google that.
We skipped a tree last year and realized that nobody really cared so that's likely the go forward plan. We put a garland on our fireplace and that was enough.
Post by wanderlustmom on Nov 18, 2024 12:04:14 GMT -5
I think people do like to start earlier now but I like to keep November all Thanksgiving and fall decorations and plus we don't do outside lights so ours is just our tree and inside decorations. I like to put it all up the week after Thanksgiving and have my husband do the tree, my daughter decorates our tree, my son puts up all our houses with lights and I do the rest. I never think I'll get sick of it but I always do and we take it down January 2. I would do it NY day but that's my DH's favorite day of the year (a lot of football to watch) so he still wants the tree. I love the feeling of taking it all down too and having all the space back.
We host Thanksgiving so my house is still "Fall". The day after Thanksgiving, Christmas comes out. We have an annual Christmas party the first Saturday in December (which usually gives me one week) so I want to house ready for that. I do go all out - we have 1 big tree, 3 smaller trees and then tiny trees in the bedrooms and bathroom. I keep it up until after New Years. I love sitting in the dark at night with all the lights and decorations.
Post by Jalapeñomel on Nov 18, 2024 12:15:56 GMT -5
I'll put this in here, but will move it if I should start a new thread:
I really want to put lights on my ceiling, IE the TikTok trend, but I don't have a hallway. Our living room is an open space, so if I wanted to do this, would I need to use net lights? Or how do you hang lights from your ceilings?
we usually set up sometime Thanksgiving weekend. I take it down either the 26th or 27th because I want my space back, lol.
Also, of all the things that have gotten so expensive, trees are a racket! I cut down my own tree, trees that have been maintained and growing for years, and suddenly the cost of my trees went from $45 to $90 in a few short years! 99% of the farms we go to are family farms and I know how much work is going into it, but dear lord, how did the cost of labor go up so much?!
Our only holiday decor is our tree. It goes up the first weekend in December and comes down between Christmas and New Years. I want my clean, minimalist house back for the start of the new year.
Last year we bought a fake tree that is a minimalist, Scandinavian style. I love it so much.
I'll put this in here, but will move it if I should start a new thread:
I really want to put lights on my ceiling, IE the TikTok trend, but I don't have a hallway. Our living room is an open space, so if I wanted to do this, would I need to use net lights? Or how do you hang lights from your ceilings?
I haven't seen that one yet. I'm planning on trying the tension-rod-garland trick this year also a la Tik Tok
I'll put this in here, but will move it if I should start a new thread:
I really want to put lights on my ceiling, IE the TikTok trend, but I don't have a hallway. Our living room is an open space, so if I wanted to do this, would I need to use net lights? Or how do you hang lights from your ceilings?
I haven't seen that one yet. I'm planning on trying the tension-rod-garland trick this year also a la Tik Tok
For Christmas, now that I have a fake tree I put everything up around December 1. Back when we had a live tree I didn't put it up any sooner than mid December because it starts really drying out around the 2 week mark even with constant watering.
I don't have exact time frames. We just did our yard winterizing, and since the planters were cleaned out, I did put out the planter decorations. I had DH leave out the extension cord, so I can put out the lighted deer, but I will do that when it is not raining, which is not this week.
Sometime in December is the tree. We already put out decorations on the mantle that again is just evergreen stuff, so not super Christmassy.
I try to take down decorations early January maybe the 2nd, but I leave winter stuff up, I just take down Christmas stuff.
I usually decorate over Thanksgiving weekend. It's just me, so I don't do a ton. -Lighted outdoor wreath -Pretty mantle -Foyer table -A few things scattered here and there
I will decorate for Christmas after Thanksgiving and keep it up until the first weekend in January. I keep my outdoor wreaths up until February. We usually get a real tree and I get it the first week or so in December and take it down after New Year. I think we may get a fake one this year and keep it up all of December and the first week of January. Sooo… different pieces go up and down at different times😊
We usually decorate for Christmas/put up our fake tree the weekend after Thanksgiving and take down the weekend after New Year's. This year we'll be out of the country 12/19-1/7. If it were up to me, I probably wouldn't decorate this year, but the kids will want me to. So I assume we'll put stuff up as normal but not take it down till like the 1/11 weekend.
Post by definitelyO on Nov 18, 2024 16:18:14 GMT -5
I usually decorate for Christmas the Sunday after Thanksgiving - but this year Thanksgiving is so late I mentioned putting the tree up the weekend before (aka this weekend) but not doing the rest of the decorating/mantles, kitchen stuff, etc... until after we host Thanksgiving dinner.
H doesn’t like Christmas, so I wait until after Thanksgiving, then put them up in a trickle—some neutralish branches and candles and white lights the weekend after Thanksgiving, then the tree and its decorations the weekend after that, then full-on Christmas lights and figurines and music for the last two weeks of December through the weekend after January 6.
Our mantle is fall but our tree is up- just lights, no decorations. We bought it last week and H wanted to put it up to see how it looks, then decided it's easier to just keep it up. I'm wrapping gifts this week, so I guess I can put out the rest of the decor as well.
Post by dreamcrisp1 on Nov 18, 2024 17:08:56 GMT -5
Usually around November 1 is when I begin decorating! I’m usually all done by November 20-25 so my goal is to be all done by Saturday. We have guests from Sunday for the next 7 weeks in our house so this is my last week of being solo.
Post by turkletsmom on Nov 18, 2024 17:14:14 GMT -5
I'm off the week of Thanksgiving, so usually then. This year we started yesterday with indoor decor and outside lights in the bushes and garland around the door. This weekend/next week we will put up the two trees, the Christmas village and our outside inflatables.
Post by RoxMonster on Nov 18, 2024 17:16:39 GMT -5
Everything sucks at the moment so I decided to put my trees up inside this past weekend. Life is gloomy, literally and otherwise, and I needed some twinkle lights. They’ll come down after NY Day.
The outside lights will go up around or after Thanksgiving. Right now I have generic fall-themed stuff up outside (meaning not spooky/Halloween but leaves/pumpkins type stuff).
We don’t have electricity outdoors so we don’t have that to deal with.
Normally we put up the tree after Thanksgiving but my husband never has that Friday off and we often have plans that Saturday/Sunday so we have put it up early. This year the trees at both houses have been up for a couple weeks but not decorated since my husband knew he was having surgery and would be restricted after and it’s awkward for me to wrestle them down the stairs myself. Its festive!
I like to take them down after New Years but sometimes that just doesn’t happen and they hang around. We don’t have a ton of decorations though, just a big advent calendar, the trees and a couple little knickknacks.
We don’t really decorate for any other holidays or seasons! We don’t have the storage space.
Fall decor is put up around Oct 1st, Halloween mid Oct. I don't go crazy for either of these so it's not a ton of stuff.
Christmas is earlier every year since 2020 because why not? Our tree was up a week after Halloween this year. The lights make me ridiculously happy and I will take most of the Christmas-y stuff down a week after Christmas but the plain tree will stay up until February.