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country lawyer
True Blue Farmgirl
1022 Posts
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 Posted - Jan 10 2009 : 05:03:07 AM
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Are your Christmas decorations still up? Or have you taken them down?
When did you take them down? Is that when you usually take down them down every year?
Are there any traditions you have surrounding the event?
Are there any Christmas things that you leave out all year?
Just wondering...
(Mine are still up!) |
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britchickny
True Blue Farmgirl
1048 Posts
Angie
Port Orange
Florida
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Posted - Jan 10 2009 : 05:19:20 AM
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Used to do it all on New Year's Day because I would be off work. Now that my son is a college student I wait until after he has gone back to school. I have spent this week putting my village away and today the tree will be coming down.
I do know a lady who keeps a tree up year-round and decorates for each holiday. Just a 4 foot tree. It is actually very pretty!
ANGIE
"Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance" JUDE 1:2
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
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jennym
True Blue Farmgirl
76 Posts
Jenny
Green Lane
PA
USA
76 Posts |
Posted - Jan 10 2009 : 06:09:12 AM
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I start putting everything away after New Year's. My son's birthday is the 9th, so I try to have everything packed up by then for his party.
Be still and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10 |
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Ms.Lilly
True Blue Farmgirl
826 Posts
Lillian
Scotts Mills
OR
USA
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Posted - Jan 10 2009 : 06:44:10 AM
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Christmas evening the tree comes down. If I don't get it all done then the rest comes down the next day.
Lillian |
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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
2648 Posts
Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
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AuntPammy
True Blue Farmgirl
488 Posts
Pamila
williamstown
wv
USA
488 Posts |
Posted - Jan 10 2009 : 06:53:47 AM
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I take down the trees and stuff around New year's day,but......I leave a small Nativity up until the 12th day of Christmas. When I went to college someone told me that they (their family) always left their decorations up until then. I always have left something up ever since.My son always helps me take down the decorations and we listen to our Christmas tunes (one last time)and pack all of the glass ornaments in tissue paper and treat them as if they were royalty!!
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow." Helen Keller
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owwlady
True Blue Farmgirl
899 Posts
Jan
Tomahawk
WI
USA
899 Posts |
Posted - Jan 10 2009 : 06:55:05 AM
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| I took down my Santa collection and all the extra stuff on New Years day so I could put back all the everyday things. Then about 4 days later I took down the tree. I love sitting quiet at night with only the tree lights on so it's always a little sad to take it down. |
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willowtreecreek
True Blue Farmgirl
4813 Posts
Julie
Russell
AR
USA
4813 Posts |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
Posted - Jan 10 2009 : 07:02:48 AM
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I love having the Christmas decorations up so they often stay up for a LONG time around here, but I am going to start trying to have them down by the first weekend after New Years. However this year they didn't even get used! I was gone all month and Doug isn't the decorating type.
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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Bellepepper
True Blue Farmgirl
1207 Posts
Belle
Coffeyville
KS
USA
1207 Posts |
Posted - Jan 10 2009 : 07:44:55 AM
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| I take mine down on Christmas Day and for sure the next day. One year, I started putting stuff away on Christmas Eve. Our family Christmas is on Christmas Eve ALL day and evening. So after everyone was gone, I started putting stuff away. Except for the fireplace mantel. Our daughter always puts a surprise in our stocking so I had to keep them up until Ole Ron got up on Christmas morning. This year was grapefruit spoons and chocolate dipped spoons. That is usually the best part of Christmas, seeing what is in our stocking. |
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
11303 Posts |
Posted - Jan 10 2009 : 08:31:41 AM
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I just put our tree up on Christmas Eve. That's the only thing, besides the fireplace screen, that was Christmas. We had some work done to the dining room, so not very festive around here. I just took the tree down a few days ago. It took 2 days to do, but it's all packed up now.I let the grandkids decorate the tree. We play Christmas music and oowww and aahhh over all the decorations. I have a wooden Santa hanging thing that just seems to stay in the bathroom all the time. And the snowman fire screen might be staying there because I can't remember what I did with the other one.
Kris
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Maori proverb |
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9093 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
9093 Posts |
Posted - Jan 10 2009 : 08:38:06 AM
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A day or so after Christmas. I leave the outside lights up a little longer so the neighbors don't have me committed.
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levisgrammy
True Blue Farmgirl
9402 Posts
Denise
Beavercreek
Ohio
USA
9402 Posts |
Posted - Jan 10 2009 : 08:51:54 AM
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Usually around New Years but it's busy around here so I am shooting for today. We shall see.
Denise
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Celticheart
True Blue Farmgirl
811 Posts
Marcia
WA
USA
811 Posts |
Posted - Jan 10 2009 : 6:29:31 PM
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I just took mine down today. I like to leave them up until Jan. 6. Isn't that Epiphany?? The night the animals can talk? Most things are put away. I like to leave snowmen out if they don't look too Christmasy until...oh....March. I left my stairway decorated with the lights and garland but took off the ribbon and beads. This house has a very pretty staircase and banister. It takes about 3 days to decorate just the staircase. There are places in this house where I leave white lights up year round. We didn't do lights outside this year but one time somebody asked our youngest son(the light guy) how long we leave them up. He said usually until he gets into trouble. Then he has to take them down. Once they were up until April. He must have been really good that year.
"Nature always has the last laugh." Mrs. Greenthumbs
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K-Falls Farmgirl
Chapter Leader
2096 Posts
Cheryl
Klamath Falls
Oregon
USA
2096 Posts |
Posted - Jan 10 2009 : 6:39:23 PM
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I take the tree down the day after christmas, We leave the lights up outside until Jan 1st. The wreath stays onthe door until Jan 1st too.
http://www.k-fallsfarmgirl.blogspot.com/
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Cheryl
Farmgirl #309
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." Maya Angelou |
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Beverley
True Blue Farmgirl
2707 Posts
Beverley
atlanta
Michigan
USA
2707 Posts |
Posted - Jan 10 2009 : 7:32:17 PM
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I just took mine down today. usually it is when I get around to it.
Folks will know how large your soul is by the way you treat a dog....Charles F. Doran
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cheneygal
True Blue Farmgirl
503 Posts
Suzie
Cheney
Wa.
USA
503 Posts |
Posted - Jan 10 2009 : 8:29:27 PM
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I put mine up a little later than usual this year, and just got the tree down and most of the other things put away today. Usually I do this the first wknd. after New Years, like many of you. I wasn't in a hurry to put things away this year, I guess I was just still enjoying it all!! I do leave a little greenery around, until it's time for spring decorating, spring flower arrangements just don't go to well with so much snow on the ground. My wreath is still up also, and will stay up for awhile longer!!
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Prairie Princess
True Blue Farmgirl
1075 Posts
Jodi
Washington
USA
1075 Posts |
Posted - Jan 10 2009 : 9:50:32 PM
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You mean I'm supposed to take them down?? 
ROFL
I usually get 'em down by the end of January. I love Christmas and especially love having lights up, so it takes a lot for me to take them down. :)
~Jodi
"Women are like teabags...you never know how strong they are until they get into hot water." Eleanor Roosevelt |
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windypines
True Blue Farmgirl
4260 Posts
Michele
Bruce
Wisconsin
USA
4260 Posts |
Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 03:52:46 AM
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MIne usually comes down New Years Day, or the weekend after. I do leave a small tree up year around in the dining room. Deocroating it for the different holidays. I also have Christmas plates up year around, that my boys made in school. I also like to sit, with just the tree lights on and enjoy. I do hate to start taking stuff down, but once I start, it is nice to have everything cleaned up.
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vermont v
True Blue Farmgirl
194 Posts
Victoria
Chester
Vermont
USA
194 Posts |
Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 5:48:11 PM
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We just took the tree down today and I hate to see it go. DH propped it up in the snow by the brush pile so it would look like it was still up to cheer me up! |
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Linda Houston
True Blue Farmgirl
538 Posts
Linda
Lake Charles
Louisiana
USA
538 Posts |
Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 7:23:33 PM
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| New Year's day or the day after. |
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4forMe
True Blue Farmgirl
166 Posts
Dawn
Easton
MD
166 Posts |
Posted - Jan 12 2009 : 04:22:15 AM
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I like to take my tree down the day after or a few days after Christmas...at least by New Year's Day. This year we were behind and the tree came down on the 5th but I still have 2 poinsettias and some greenery on my mantle that is still green so those things will stay until they die.
I like the start of a New year to be clean and fresh....which means everything put away and ready for life to move on.
Sewing, knitting, gardening mom of 4. |
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palmettogirl
True Blue Farmgirl
571 Posts
sue
camden
south carolina
USA
571 Posts |
Posted - Jan 12 2009 : 05:09:11 AM
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| we usually take our stuff down between christmas and new years....thats because i'm usually cleaning the house (and so we get all the decorations/tree,etc out) because i always have people over for a new year's eve dinner. this year, however, we left the tree and decorations up till new year's day so that we could still enjoy them during the new year eve dinner. i love the way the house looks when it's decorated for christmas and the people that we usually have over for new years eve haven't seen the house during the actual christmas holidays... hey, before long it'll be time to decorate for valentine's day!!! |
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homemom
True Blue Farmgirl
1593 Posts
Ruth
Warwick
RI
USA
1593 Posts |
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City_Chick
True Blue Farmgirl
509 Posts
Christina
Omaha
Nebraska
USA
509 Posts |
Posted - Jan 12 2009 : 07:34:50 AM
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Well most of the time I take the trees down the day after christmas. We have 4 of those semi-realistic tall skinny ones on the main floor. However, this year the daughter and I thought that it might be fun to keep them up longer and decorate them for each little holiday and the seasons. So we will see. We decided that the one tiny one will remain decorated the same year around because it hold my danish collector ornaments that my grandmother gave me. So far one is ready for valentines day! My son made me a bunch of roses made from red, pink and silver duct tape for it.
Christina
Farmgirl Sister #195
http://justacitychick.blogspot.com/
Although no one can go back and make a brand new start; anyone can start from now
and make a brand new end.
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