The Unconquered Sun
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Post by The Unconquered Sun on Dec 18, 2016 13:15:34 GMT -5
When it comes to decorating your home, when do you put it up, and take it down. What's too early and what's "Take those lights down already? For us we put the tree up around Thanksgiving and take it down a week after New Years. The outside lights, it depends on what the weather is like. what about you guy?
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chazraps
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Post by chazraps on Dec 18, 2016 13:30:49 GMT -5
Martin Luther King Day.
My family celebrates Russian Christmas in addition to Christmas Classic, and usually still have people visiting from out of town through MLK weekend, so to keep things festive we keep it up until the garbage pick-up the day after MLK Day and take it all down in one swoop.
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Post by Hit Girl on Dec 18, 2016 13:33:29 GMT -5
I put it up in September and take it down just before Spring.
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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Dec 18, 2016 13:36:49 GMT -5
up the weekend after Thanksgiving down January 1 or 2
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SmashTV
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Post by SmashTV on Dec 18, 2016 13:43:18 GMT -5
As we don't have Thanksgiving in the UK ours goes up mid December and comes down in the tail end of the first week of January.
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Eunös ✈
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Dec 18, 2016 13:48:23 GMT -5
January 6th is the latest.
Sometimes then, sometimes a little bit before.
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SmashTV
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Post by SmashTV on Dec 18, 2016 14:07:44 GMT -5
A lot of times at this time of year you get a story in the paper about one guy who keeps his Christmas tree and decorations up all year round. His reasoning is that the house looks so pretty, so why take the decorations down and make it bare again? There's always one telling sentence in the story, however:
'Frank, whose wife has left him, keeps his decorations up all year round...'
Whether or not her leaving was the cause of the decorations staying up or the result is never really explained...
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Post by Duke Cameron on Dec 18, 2016 17:20:29 GMT -5
I'll keep it up all year long, it's only 4 feet tall. But it'll stay lit usually from December 1st until sometime in January.
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Sephiroth
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Post by Sephiroth on Dec 18, 2016 17:59:21 GMT -5
Week after New Years.
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Push R Truth
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Post by Push R Truth on Dec 18, 2016 18:02:15 GMT -5
Comes down when I'm watching the last of the Bowl Games
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Post by bibboid on Dec 18, 2016 21:21:43 GMT -5
Outside decorations go up the weekend after Thanksgiving. Tree goes up the weekend closest to Dec 6th (the wife's birthday). It all comes down the first weekend after New Year's.
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Annette
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Post by Annette on Dec 18, 2016 21:29:23 GMT -5
About mid-January.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2016 21:38:05 GMT -5
Real tree comes down December 26 so I can clean the needles up.
Fake tree, January 1 or during the Rose Bowl, whichever is first.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 18, 2016 22:03:54 GMT -5
FOREVER! well probably more like mid January... mostly out of laziness Though never before January 5th, the 12th day of Christmas.
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Post by Nickybojelais on Dec 18, 2016 23:32:09 GMT -5
I've actually not bothered putting a tree up for the past few years, I cant be arsed putting it up just to have to clear it up a few weeks later. Also my main room feels too small to have a tree cluttering the place up.
But my own rules were that a tree goes up no earlier than December 10th and it comes down on January 1st.
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Post by The Legend of Groose on Dec 18, 2016 23:56:57 GMT -5
We put it up around the first or second week of December and it's down by around New Years Day.
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ayumidah
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Post by ayumidah on Dec 19, 2016 0:27:05 GMT -5
January 2nd usually.
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Post by OldDirtyBernie on Dec 19, 2016 5:19:43 GMT -5
Whenever the wife feels like taking it down, really. I don't mean this in a misogynistic way at all. We have an agreement that stems from 2 things - 1)My mom was HUGE into Christmas. 2-3 trees up every year, lights, Dept. 56 house displays...the works. Ever since she passed, I just want nothing to do with it. The only reason I celebrate it at all is out of habit and to see the look on my kids' faces when they get their presents. 2) Perhaps a bit of a contradiction to the above, but Christmas was always the one time each year my parents would FIGHT fight. My dad wasn't as into it as my mom, so they'd always go at it and it got worse as I got older. I can remember a couple of times my dad left for a while and, as a kid, it scared the shit out of me. So basically, my wife and I have an agreement that I won't argue with when or how she decorates, but I don't really have to participate.
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Post by wakko on Dec 19, 2016 8:35:31 GMT -5
its a 2 ft tree so all year long.
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Post by brody on Dec 24, 2016 14:47:27 GMT -5
When I was like 9 I went to play at my neighbor's house in the summer and they still had a tree up. I asked WTF and they said "our parents work a lot"
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