Please complete the following statement.
"Christmas decorations should be ... "
(a) removed post haste on Boxing Day
(b) packed away around about New Year's Day
(c) taken down by Twelfth Night (5 January) to avoid bad luck
(d) left to the elements to see what stays up until next December
(e) banned
I always aim for (c) but usually end up with (d). Don't ask the Bloke who lives at my place, he'll answer (e) for sure.
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Hmmmm my minimalist sister would say A, I would intend to go with B, but probably end up with D...
ReplyDeleteI have a friend who "pays a man" to come and do all the things she hates to do. For instance, she paid said man to come and put an ikea bookcase together. Now, I'm not saying I condone her use of "a man", but right about now, I'm thinking paying a man to come and put the christmas decorations away wouldn't be such a bad idea. I am lurking dangerously into category (d).
ReplyDeleteHmm, e for sure! I only just put the bloody things up, and now I have to take them down! Great project for a boring day tomorrow though, thanks! And yes, we need to visit, maybe next week? I have Tues and Thurs freeeeeee!
ReplyDeleteB! We got home from a week on the road having left early on Boxing day and I started to pull the tree down before the bags were unpacked... It feels festive before Christmas to have a tree in the house, and it seems messy after Christmas to have said tree still in the house for more than a few days :)
ReplyDeleteI usually end up with (d), which seems the least stressful option
ReplyDeleteYou left out "self-destructing." ;)
ReplyDeleteMost of it is down by "c" - the rest usually comes down about June. hehe!
ReplyDeleteWe're A at these digs (and we don't put the tree up until Christmas eve!).
ReplyDeleteA! A!! When it's over, it's OVER! :o)
ReplyDeleteD we have lights up still from last year :D
ReplyDeleteUmm leave them up as long as possible, I'm pretty sure the advent calendar tree was still hanging around the mantlepiece until at least June last year!! So I think that makes it a (d) over here!!
ReplyDeleteOurs are gone...which makes us a (b) It seemed like a good idea to get them down on a day when the kids were driving us insane as it filled in a good 17 minutes of the school holidays...however a 2, 4 and 6 year old ripping tinsel down from great heights and pulling off breakable decorations with great vigour did not seem quite so good an idea.
ReplyDeleteIntended to do c) but I think it's going to d) for me. It's just now I have a passion for snowman, and I think they might get sad in a cupboard.
ReplyDeleteLoved your poem yesterday. You are brilliant!
Jebus! Mine are still UP, I just realised. I'll vote C, and make sure I take them down before tonight. eeek.
ReplyDeleteTaken down by the 12th night. Which is TONIGHT. Oh no! I had it in my head that they had to be down by tomorrow night... guess I know what my night now entails.
ReplyDeleteI am on the A list, I also only put up all decorations on Christmas eve. Apart from fairy lights which are an all year thing. The chap in my house is a total E now the kids are grown up!
ReplyDeleteMine are all still up. But I love the LIGHTS! How can I remove the tree and the ornaments and still enjoy those gorgeous, flattering, atmosphere enhancing, coloured bulbs without looking like a Christmas crazy woman? Having said all that, I'm hoping I'll have it down by Friday... I even bought some new decorations in the sales that are already in the box for next year.
ReplyDeleteIt's B for me, if I remember to put them up in the first place...
ReplyDeleteC! Why take Christmas down before the 12 days of Christmas as through?
ReplyDeleteThat's an easy one....I didn't even put any up! Xmas is NEVER at my house so what's the point? Ooops...I think i have a BAD xmas attitude....
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