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This is such a hot topic and a debate and omg I just laugh as I could leave mine
up all year round but my neighbors and children would probably die lol

I have up this year, well over 100 inflatables, 4 trees inside, more outside and thousands of lights!
I am the clark griswald of our street LOL

how about your home?

much love
alaya sc3

What decorations?

We're empty nest grandparents. Christmas morning is spent at our daughters' house with all the grandkids. I cook Christmas dinner at our house. My son in law immediately finds some type of sports on tv and the rest of us play board games all night.

My husband and I decided we were done with the decorating. When we used to put up a tree, etc. - the decorations, including the tree came down Christmas afternoon! By that time I was tired of the mess, and keeping the cats out of it, and the broken ornaments and the tree was dead anyways (we always got a live tree)

We gave all of our decorations to our adult kid and grandkids.

I guess you can call me Scrooge

1st January every year. They're already packed away and in the loft.

Claire

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Hi so happy to see another Christmas fanatic like myself, I keep my inside up until end of January inside I have 15 Trees and go to town else wear. My outside is lighted up to the max as well and I add more every year. Because of my HOA the outside has to be down within 15 days of the Holiday. Wow over 100 inflatables I bet its so beautiful !!

1st or 2nd january it all goes ... if it was for my husband (I guess most men ) no decorations at all .... haha

In fact, nowadays it has very little to do with Christmas, it's just so exploited to spend money ... it never stops, halloween, saint nicolas (europe), christmas, new years, valentine ...

According to Roman Catholic liturgy, Christmas ends on the Sunday after Epiphany. Here in Spain, we celebrate Christmas until January 6th, Three Kings' Day, when the Three Kings bring gifts to the children. And by the 7th, I usually have all the decorations put away.

Our first Christmas in Spain Marta, loved it All
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Italian Lace SC4 wrote:I have slowly begun to take them down

We put them up a little at a time, over a week or so, and they come down a little at a time, too.

We have this tradition of always leaving one thing out for good luck... it started as an accident. You know, put everything away and as soon as you've got it all buried in the back of the closet you find the one thing you forgot? Now that thing is good luck and has to stay out all year LOL.

So what is the thing you left out this year?

I can totally understand. We have two Halloween Animatronics in our front entryway: "Frankie & Eva" (8' tall Frankenstein and his 6' tall Bride) They greet anyone who comes into our home Everyone seems to get a kick out of them though Then in the living room, on a shelf with our other "collectibles" we have two Santa's. They are about 9-10" tall. One of them "farts" and the other one blows bubbles out of his ass And on our table stand in the living room, there's a 15" tall outhouse halloween decoration that has a mummy open the door, peeking out and saying funny sayings all having to do with farts and poop And on the fireplace hearth, we have a "toy" slotmachine.....................Our grandkids love our house All of these stay out year round too