How long should Christmas decorations stay up?

While some choose to take down decorations as soon as possible, others celebrate the 12 days of Christmas that starts Dec. 25 and ends on Jan. 5.
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[@stacyfabiszewski4633]

We normally take our tree 🎄 and decorations down January 8th , but it's been a very crazy year so in the New Year I want to start it off with happiness, calming feeling, and beautifulness , so I am keeping my tree up for a lot longer. As I was having a really rough year this year I was so depressed and once my tree 🎄 and decorations were up , oh my goodness my mood changed instantly for the good, I am so relaxed and calm now. I don't want to take that away

[@GraniteStateVictoria]

Oh cool! My boyfriend does the same thing because he has family that celebrate Christmas on January 7. I usually leave mine up over a week into the new year as well. I decided to be a little eccentric this year and leave mine up until February (the weekend after Groundhog's Day).

[@stacyfabiszewski4633]

@@GraniteStateVictoria very nice !

[@alicederrow1117]

I usually take mine down around the 6th. I love my tree and the lights.❤ It brings me peace and a sense of relaxation. ❤Happy New Year!🎉

[@xochitlsanchez3704]

The 6 is the day of the 3 wiseman, when they came to visit, baby Jesus in the major. Which is also known Rosa de Reyes.

[@f.acostaa9429]

I agree, I love Christmas! the 6th it is. It makes me feel happy

[@mjsimmons2605]

My Christmas traditions began December 25th and continues through january 5th, the 12 days of Christmas. My decorations go up the week before Christmas day. The four weeks before is Advent Season, prepping for the coming of the Christ Light. 🎆

[@daisybanda11]

After January 5th. Don’t forget the 3 wise men

[@proudpatriot6567]

So many people get on my case about my decorations staying up even a day after Christmas. I tell them we keep up Christmas celebrations until the feast of the Epiphany on Jan 6th. I'm Italian, and its called little Christmas 🎄 ❤

[@lianetownsend6380]

You do you, don't let people bring you down on doing what you want to do. I myself am keeping my tree up all year and using it as a seasonal tree.

[@smck1357]

I'm Irish an keep my trees up till after the 6Jan, as well its tradition, 🌲

[@GraniteStateVictoria]

I leave mine up well into January as well usually. The ironic thing is most of the people who are telling you to take stuff down on the 26th are the same ones who put everything up on November 1 and call you a scrooge for not doing so, haha. Now it's our turn to turn the tables on them. 😀 It's so weird how it used to be put everything up the end of November and take it down in early January was the norm, now people are trying to be like Walmart, I guess. My boyfriend has Eastern Orthodox relatives so he leaves his up until after January 7.

[@susanholt3038]

My husband Ron and I love Christmas 🎄 We feel sad 😭 that it comes and goes too quickly

[@margotleduc1507]

Little Christmas - January 6th.

[@Tinkerbe11]

In Germany we usually have the Christmas tree until Jan 6. In catholic areas they take it down in February at Presentation of Jesus day. But we don't put up the Christmas tree before Dec 24th usually, so we didn't have it up for several weeks or months. We have some decorations starting 1st advent (the 4th Sunday before Christmas) and the Christmas tree on Christmas. I'm not catholic, but I love Christmas, so I leave my tree until February. 🙂

[@susanholt3038]

Everyday is Christmas 🎄 My husband and I feel happier when Christmas 🎄 decorations stay up all year ❤ Merry Christmas 🎄 Blessings 🙏 to all ❤❤❤ Peace ✌️ in 2024

[@ThymeBottle]

♥️🌲

[@haleyphipps0417]

My family keeps our tree up (and decorations) until January 6th when Epiphany occurs. I have my own room I decorate with stuff that's mine only and this past January 2023 I was very sick from the worst flair up I had ever had with my Ulcerative Colitis that made me tired,weak, have loss of full appetite and bed and house bound in pain for 2 weeks until I was sent to the hospital for what became 2 blood transfusions. I didn't get my decorations down until February and immediately decorated for Valentine's Day.😁

[@ninernelly79fuego92]

I take mine down after New Year’s, around the 8th. It’s a tradition I’ll do till I’m not on this earth anymore. I think I want to start leaving my tree and decorating it for each holiday. 🥰

[@Cwilliam1999]

If you need something to go by. Try the 12 days rule. 12 days after Christmas Day is January 5th that’s a rule you could try.

[@johnkean6852]

TWELTH NIGHT yes

[@deborahmontanez2723]

I take mine down before the New Year comes in.

[@johnishcalee5420]

Me too

[@FFact483]

Kinda wish my neighbours would leave the lights up - they do a 100 year old big oak tree in blue and white and it’s over the top fantastic- I laughed because it actually means the rest of us don’t need do a thing. They make us all look good every year.

[@bzbz5625]

I take mine down in march.but i may decorate it for easter.its alot of work to get it up.

[@uniquechallenges2478]

That's an long time to keep it up but do you!

[@nmikali3848]

If it brings you calm,warmth, and joy...keep them up! or partial, twinkling lights with sum wintry garland...then decorate for valentines..and on to the next holiday.❤❤❤

[@moosepoop]

My tree 🎄 goes up a month before Christmas 🙏, no one is going to tell me when I should take MY tree🎄 down in MY house...that's MY decision!!! 😊

[@ninernelly79fuego92]

I was just about to say the same thing. 😂🤣👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@moosepoop]

@@ninernelly79fuego92 😊🎄😂🎄🤗

[@susanholt3038]

Amen

[@moosepoop]

@@susanholt3038 😊🎄🤗

[@LR-mh8hs]

Yes, it's nobody's business, but they have to fill "dead air" with something. lol

[@gameshowguy2000]

I have taken them down close to the end of January in 2013, and the past two years I ended up taking them down in the first week of March!

[@cherieannlisowski6332]

I usually take mine down around Martin Luther king day and then start with the Valentine’s Day decorations

[@cherylb6755]

In my home? As long as I want them up.

[@LR-mh8hs]

Do what feels right. One year I took the tree down mid-January. This year it will be before the first because the tree looks and feels dry. Better safe than sorry.

[@KimDe05]

Just because Christmas Day has passed, we are still in the Christmas season. There is no reason to take Christmas trees down the day after Christmas.

[@GraniteStateVictoria]

Exactly! I leave mine up well into January. After all, cold and gloomy January needs cheering up, too. 😀

[@theresalucas9477]

Because we pick our tree 🌲 up so late, we keep it up until February ❤😊.

[@uniquechallenges2478]

Me too I put mine up on Dec 19th and leave it up until February ❤

[@nubiancutie5972]

… after Mardi Gras day… which is Ash Wednesday…PERFECTO

[@clarisahernandez5280]

I think a childhood friend did Easter.

[@kallen868]

When I was a kid I went to a friends to play games early evening on Christmas day and when I got home my mother had taken down everything. Tree and all. Very depressing. Probably one of the reasons why my own personal rule is to take it down when I feel like it which is usually late Jan early Feb.

[@ThymeBottle]

♥️🌲

[@asavannah7439]

The 12th day of Christmas is the 5th of January and therefore the last day of my Christmas decor.

[@johnkean6852]

Yes TWELTH NIGHT

[@sorayajohnson3498]

After new years day

[@brandilyn6720]

Took my tree down today and a few other things. Will take another week or two to get it all organized & put back in the attic.

[@liemdrake]

For me that I leave my Christmas decorations after a Epiphany on January 7th

[@dylanb4528]

Christmas just started! It’s the 6th day of Christmas! Happy Christmas!

[@SheilaR.08]

We always kept ours up til after Epiphany.

[@56karenandjim]

In metro Denver it’s after stock show ends.

[@meganvm]

Whenever u want really..2020 I learned what joy it brought my family brought it out early. I don’t always keep it plugged in though. I have a black tree I put it up October make it a Halloween tree, change decor for Christmas. I use to take it down before February ..although this past year we made it a Valentine’s Day tree..so I’ll take it down mid February.

[@lianetownsend6380]

I have a seasonal tree so I already decorated mine for new years. Something new I started this year.

[@ThymeBottle]

The idea of a 'seasonal tree' is very tempting. I would do one for the four seasons. I can already see little surfboards, flip flops, ice cream cones, little sunglasses, beach tents and beach balls, etc., for the summertime decorations. If not found online, such seasonal decorations can be made using whatever you have on hand and some creative imagination. Kids, especially would even enjoy making summertime decorations.

[@aliciadaas2323]

You will learn as you get older you should do whatever makes you happy. If you want to leave your tree up all year round and it makes you happy then do that.

[@marilynbland7356]

We were always taught to take it down before the New Year.

[@barbarastout1029]

We take our tree and decorations down after Three Kings Day

[@MarkVercouteren]

when SHOULD you: never to whenever you can, depending on the weather and if you have help if needed. there is permanent lighting you can install for safety, seasonal, and parties. there are a few brands which I have on my wish list they are hard to get but seen a couple of ppl in our city with them. our tradition is to slowly take things down march or april. tho if we had a real tree that would be taken down before it was a fire hazard and droppin needles everywhere, lol. Its been unseasonably warm so I've been putting more decor up outside even in the last couple of days. (normally start putting things up nov 1st). normally its too cold to remove xmas decor in winter. every yr I try to do more. during covid someone mentioned to keep lights... so we did. the house came w lights on one of the trees never turned them on , never took them off so far- its on the list, lol I also keep lights up inside yr round usually off, and one special mini tree. not mark btw.

[@clarisahernandez5280]

My guess is there's a crew to undecorate GMA's set. Taking down depends on when you put up. I'm an after Thanksgiving decorator so probably next weekend.

[@MSRez95]

To each their own!

[@buttersmom7243]

I was never religious until about ten years ago, so the tree would come down on January 1st. But since reconnecting with my Catholic faith, I now leave it up until after January 5th. Besides, I like to sit in the evenings and enjoy my tree as long as possible.

[@GraniteStateVictoria]

January 1-2 used to be the norm, now I see so many people putting everything up on November 1 and taking it down on December 26, they call you a grinch for not putting everything up on November 1, so I always enjoy turning the tables on them in late December/early January. 😀 I usually leave mine up until January 8-15 but this year I want to be extra eccentric, so I'm leaving mine up until the weekend after Groundhog's Day.

[@juliadoula]

Epiphany (Three Wise Men or Three Kings Day) is January 6... and, if you go to Puerto Rico, Christmas decoration don't go down up until after San Sebastian Street Festival which is the third weekend in January.

[@carolebyrd588]

Hello, there is no right or wrong time. Put it up and take it down whenever you want. Good grief

[@savannah58]

Right after the New Year

[@flowerpoker5217]

After new years

[@carolynpagano659]

when i feel like it.

[@yenxion6516]

One year we have our tree up until February and other year we took it down on the first of January. 🤷‍♀️😂

[@uniquechallenges2478]

I take it down on February it makes the month of January less deppressing!!! Of course I put up the tree kind of late on December 19th!!

[@colinskelding8959]

When kids go back to school, Jan 3rd

[@AngelM7]

My husband’s birthday is January 9th so we typically keep the Christmas decorations up until then.

[@GraniteStateVictoria]

That's so cool! My boyfriend's late mother's birthday was January 9, they left theirs up until around that time but for different reason (he has Eastern Orthodox relatives, they celebrate on January 7). He still keeps up that tradition. I usually leave mine up until anywhere from the 8th to the 21st, but this year I for some reason want to leave everything up until the first weekend of February.

[@redt8311]

In America at least where I’m from people leave their Christmas decorations the entirety of December. They remove them sometime within the first two weeks of the new year.

[@anarchistatheist1917]

There are people that observe xmas on january 7th (since that is currently the 25th December in the julian calendar). So i would say for the rest of the twenty first century, wait until the 8th of january to dismantle the xmas stuff.

[@GraniteStateVictoria]

Used to be the norm to put stuff up after Thanksgiving and leave it up until after New Year's. Now it's become the norm for people to put everything up on November 1 and take it down on December 26. I usually put mine up the weekend after Thanksgiving and leave mine up until some time during the second week of January (8th-14th), or sometimes the third week (15th-21st). But I'm in the mood to be really eccentric this year so I'm leaving it up until the weekend after Groundhog's Day (yes, in February). I admit, a small part of it is to spite the holiday rushers.

[@christopherwesterberg8555]

I guess some People like to wait till New Years to take the Christmas Tree down

[@lolapascual]

Tori is awesome ! I watch her on youtube 😊

[@planemod8399]

most people do it on 2nd of february

[@RIP19851]

When my dad was in the military he would be gone for a year at a time so we would keep it up until he came home this was back in the midd 80’s and the last time was Desert storm in the 90’s he’s retired now. we had a fake Christmas tree

[@ThymeBottle]

What a wonderful thing to do for your military father! We did something similar. When my father worked overseas, his R&R would almost invariably happen in April. We put up the artificial tree the day after Thanksgiving, and would take it down after he returned to work in the middle of May. His birthday was on April the sixth, so we had all of his Christmas and birthday gifts piled around the tree for when he arrived mid April. He always loved Christmas time, so this was something extra special for him whenever he came home.

[@seirrabrinson]

welpppp🫢... I see I'm a odd ball because 2 days after Christmas is when I take down our tree and put up all the other decorations. #tillnextyear😄

[@Cathleen-so8xb]

3 Kings Day people!!

[@lynnglidewell7367]

I put my tree up Thanksgiving Day and light it up that night. I take it down January 26. I give myself a full two months to enjoy it. I play Christmas music the entire time too. No regrets, no apologies to anyone not liking it.

[@HouseTargaryen24601]

As long as you want.

[@johnkean6852]

TWELTH NIGHT guys!!!

[@mepulley7913]

It must be a slow news cycle for GMA to cover this topic.

[@lizzie7929]

Whenever you want to take it down! You can leave it til the end December! Or take it down after Christmas Day! ✨🌟🎄

[@elizabethvales7891]

After January 6th ...epiphany

[@tonyabeavers6334]

We keep our tree up until family members have a day before returning to work in January

[@tonyabeavers6334]

BTW- we have friends that take it all down after they open gifts on Christmas day!

[@loveobviously]

Have them up as long as you want. it’s nobody else’s business

[@jackoesterlejr.3454]

We Are "Roman Catholic" We Keep It Up Till The Feast Of The Wise Men! Happy New Year 2024

[@shood35]

For us it's the day after Christmas. 12/26. I'm over it and moving on. I need my space clean and uncluttered again.

[@JABIE780]

That’s up to the individual family, not society!

[@fantasyprincessgirl]

We usually take it down on January 17th

[@monaedoyle3631]

My mother said tonight that the Christmas tree 🌲 has to come down.

[@hlnbee]

I usually take my decorations down Jan. 2-artificial decorations.

[@jeancm.14]

After 1st week of January ?😅

[@carolynpagano659]

next is my Easter tree

[@bettyedodson2670]

One week after Christmas.

[@irishly2000]

Until feast of 3 kings on the 4th of January 😊

[@denisedelgiudice3378]

Whenever you want to.

[@kimberlygathings2936]

Depends on how I feel but 99% of my Christmas decor is down and put away except for the tree. I keep it up until New years Day. It comes down and carefully put away

[@teresakelton8286]

New Year’s Day.

[@royalty5114]

If you find it is clutter, put up less. If you want to take it down Boxing Day because you are over it then ask yourself, why did you put it up in the first place. Follow what makes you happy not what the world is doing. Simple!

[@clarisahernandez5280]

I have no tree so I don't have that mess and clutter.

[@tanyaosterman]

However long you want.

[@fairy_sister449]

Bad luck before New years

[@judygarrett8007]

Take it down whenever YOU want to take it down.

[@jonathanmcvay4499]

After 13th Night dinner.

[@shaunmacready701]

Its funny, alot of people put xmas up in early November but take down 26th. Because thats traditional. But xmas infacts is 38 days from 11th to 1st of February. People choose whatever they want to believe but if you put up early November you believe that 1 but dont believe people to keep it upto February 1st. Makes no sense thats selective picking 😂

[@yeshiworkgashu3192]

We depend on decoration and tree what is Christmas? Christmas is all year round my Jesus is in my heart not on the commercial. I am not trying to discourage but let children celebrate Jesus all year round ❤❤❤❤ we dismiss him look where we are❤

[@redvelvetrose]

Christmas decorations stay up until Epiphany, January 6th.

[@thomaswilson7441]

I say about July 4th, 🤯🤦🏻‍♀️😅🤣😂🤷🏻‍♀️🤔

[@uniquechallenges2478]

I used to do that when I was drinking too much alcohol throughout the year it was way problematic for me though!

[@paulettedrake2972]

We have a Nativity and Christmas card covers that are put up on our kitchen cabinets. Not much to take down. Will leave until after celebrating the Epiphany-(revealing divine truth of Jesus birth at the visit from the Three Kings)🎆

[@janettetiong1563]

I day and raje it down on boxing day

[@CatholicForever1]

Until Feb 2nd! Christmas celebrates Jesus's birth and it took 40 days for 'the days of purification' to be complete so that His Mother and St. Joseph could take Him to the Temple to present Him to the Lord. Therefore, many people (like Polish people, traditional Catholics) leave their decorations up for 40 days to celebrate Jesus's newborn phase!🎄😊

[@thelmaangell4410]

Jan 6th

[@terryhocker9342]

12/26...Every Year...!!!

[@mfowler342]

The Christmas Season lasts until the Epiphany. That's how long you keep up the decorations. It is, after all, a religious holiday season. It's not secular.

[@user-er3ri6sc3j]

This is newsworthy?

[@ericanelson1461]

I personally think taking the tree out right after Christmas is the best. You get all your free space back.

[@FlixCreEightR]

Sick of hearing about tik tok users.