Everything came down for me today too. Love Christmas decor, but so happy to have my house back to non-clutter.

Jo

We only put away the tree and the more Santa-y decorations. I did mostly "winter outdoors" this year, so the deer and lighted greens are staying on the mantle for another week or two. Hmm, that's about all. I didn't decorate too much this year. Oh, keeping the red wooden wintry little Scandinavian guys in the lighted cabinet in the kitchen, just because they make me happy for a few weeks.

I'll take down the outdoor lights later this week. Epiphany doesn't seem to be that big of a deal around here; if your lights are still up by then it's because you went skiing!

I have everything put away but the tree. Since we just put it up the Sunday before Christmas I decided to leave it until tomorrow. The lights look so pretty against the snow covered woods outside the window and it’s still not dried out. Will dismantle tomorrow before we head home on Tuesday. We just stick it in the snow until it gets brown and then haul it into the woods to compost. And it’s about three feet from the door to our deck so minimal mess.

And time for my annual "thank you" to the GWer who first suggested storing each string in a one-gallon ziplok. SOoooo easy to take out, put away, and store.

That may have been me, I’ve been doing this for years. If not me it’s an excellent idea!

We took everything down yesterday, which is really early for us. I am so ready for 2018 to be over. Looking forward to the New Year ( especially mid February).

Ah, I think it WAS you, maddielee. Thank you!

I took my tree down the day after Christmas, per usual. I almost took it down Christmas Day since we had our celebration on Christmas Eve, but I forced myself to wait till the day after.

We had some really nice weather 2 days after Christmas, so several of my neighbors and I took down our outdoor lights/nativities then. Gotta strike while the iron is hot here in winter-weather country.

Traditionally, we take it down the day after New Year's. This year we put it up later than usual, so I appreciate being able to still enjoy it, without all the hustle and bustle attached!

So much for the 12 days of Christmas. Christmas JUST began. Trees are about gifts, and that guy in the red suit, so no loss there but at least one nativity will remain long after Epiphany here in the woods, good weather of bad.

My tree is so cute and still fresh. I am not ready to part with it. Our township collects and chips the trees during the first week and again on the second week of January. I'll keep mine up another week. It always makes me sad to see the trees lying by the curb!

I do want to get it out before the cleaning lady comes, but that's not for another ten days.

The other indoor decorations will come down sometime this week. My grandnieces put them up early this year and I am tired of them.

I really enjoy the lights and swags on the fence so they will stay up awhile, along with the artificial wreath on the front door.

The house always looks so barren without the decorations!

Well, I was going to leave the candles in the windows for a while because they look so pretty inside and out, but Samwise aka Sam aka Little Stinky aka Spawn of Satan (although he is growing out of that phase now that he is 14 months old and 70 pounds) knocked one over. We didn't hear it because we had friends here for dinner and there was lots of talking. Suddenly, I noticed that he was going behind one of the chairs in front of the window and coming over to the rug next to the table and chomping on something. The second time he went over there, I got up to see what he had found to eat. Yikes. Broken bulb and he was chewing on the pieces of glass. That pup chews anything and everything! I am pretty sure he didn't swallow any glass-I think he just chewed it. No cuts in his mouth either. Called the vet emergency number and the doc said to double up on his food so if there is any glass, it will pass through with the food which makes him very happy.

So long way of saying I will take our indoor decorations down tomorrow. ;-(

May leave the lights on the deck up for a while longer b/c they are so pretty.

Does this work better than wrapping them around cardboard? (I'll be taking down and storing lights for the first time this year.)

That is a great idea for the lights, I'm definitely using it this year!

I've always been firm about having the tree down and decorations put away by New Year's Day if not before. But this year, everything is so different; we decorated only our vacation/retirement home, I changed tree styles completely from a must-be-real-fir to a gloriously fake white artificial, I went full on tropical holiday and LOVE my decorated house and last but not least son and DIL spent the holiday with her family so I'm leaving their little artificial tree and gifts set up in their apartment downstairs till they get back and come down. In other words: I'm not frantically up for dismantling the holiday this year :).

However, I do have the day to myself while husband tends to his mom, no plans and so I might start nibbling at a take down. Or I might go sit by the pool with a good book and leave everything as is for awhile LOL.

So the opposite here. Love having our tree up trough the 12 days of Christmas. Begin taking it and all the other decorations down as soon as practical after Epiphany. That said we always set up a gift wrapping station in our Master Bedroom and so ready to get that put away, my kids wrap until the last minute but it is down the day after Christmas.

We have an artificial tree so no needle concerns like bpath has. We keep the tree up until the Epiphany and seem to enjoy it so much during the calm after the storm!

I used to love the way those fallen needles would scent the house when I vacuumed them up. I used to buy balsams for that very reason - they smell the sweetest, IMO.

No more real trees here for years now. I do have a few vases with fir branches in them though. My little silver tree takes less than an hour to dismantle and put away, and that will be after Epiphany.

Our tree has survived the holidays and has been bothering DH's allergies less. We will take it down New Year's Day. Though we may seriously consider an artificial tree next year, boo.

This is the first year I haven’t wanted to put things away. Maybe it’s because the main tree didn’t go up until about two weeks later than normal. I do think I’d be sick of stuff in two more weeks. The tree is still very happy looking and I’m curious to see how long it lasts. My one large poinsettia is still happy too. I had purchased two small oned for in the foyer and after almost a week of gloomy days they were dead.

Tree is down and everything put away at our lake cabin. I have a few things up at home that I was planning to leave until a party we’re having on Jan 11 but may take that down as well. Once I hit New Year’s Day I’m ready to put Christmas decor behind me.

We may keep the tree up through next weekend, but we usually take it down New Year's Day. We were supposed to host neighbors tonight but I came down with a rotten cold Christmas Day. Still not feeling great so canceled. I'm thinking of having them over Friday or Saturday since I should be over this cold by then and thought it would be nice to still have the Christmas decor up. Not sure I'll be up to putting it all away before then anyway.

No more stringing lights....we got a pre-lit tree a few years ago...so much easier!

I have the tree lit for New Year's day. Will begin putting it and the rest of the Christmas decor away this Sunday (old Christmas).