Taking the Christmas tree down

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thatsvanity
thatsvanity Member Posts: 391

Hi,

Has anyone started to put away all the Christmas decorations. I feel so lazy. I read this is the laziest week of the year. 

Amylynn 

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  • kira1234
    kira1234 Member Posts: 3,091
    edited December 2013

    We take everything down New Years day!

  • MrsDarcy
    MrsDarcy Member Posts: 162
    edited December 2013

    I am tempted to take the tree and decorations down but I somehow got a serious case of acute laziness myself ;)   

  • thatsvanity
    thatsvanity Member Posts: 391
    edited December 2013

    I know I just can't get motivated! When my husband is home I do less around the house. I have to motivate him to help then maybe I can get the ball rolling!

  • Tomboy
    Tomboy Member Posts: 3,945
    edited December 2013

    i never even put it up!

  • Holeinone
    Holeinone Member Posts: 2,478
    edited December 2013

    kathec & all of us lazy girls,  wished I hadn't, but it seemed like tradition...10 foot real tree, messy as ever, we did not entertain over the holidays, but my kids ( young adults ) were here. my SIL did nothing, no tree, no decorations. I got everything out, felt like it would help getting over chemo SE, starting rads...NOW, who is going to put all that crap away?....lol...

  • odie16
    odie16 Member Posts: 1,882
    edited December 2013

    I thought about it.....LOL....Will take it down New Years day.....

  • Monis
    Monis Member Posts: 472
    edited December 2013

    We usually give it until at least New Year's Day.  I put it all up kind of late this year, due to surgery and lack of motivation, so it can stay up a few more days.

  • 208sandy
    208sandy Member Posts: 2,610
    edited December 2013

    Always keep it up till New Year's Day and if I'm feeling lazy keep it up a few days longer - when we lived in California and had a real tree it came down the day after Christmas because it was "dead"!

  • Blessings2011
    Blessings2011 Member Posts: 4,276
    edited December 2013

    I was really sick, so DH did most of the decorating this year. Oh, wait, I unpacked and set up the Jim Shore Nativity set... big upper body workout, getting those styrofoam containers out of the original cardboard boxes!

    We usually take everything down on New Year's Day.

    We have a large pre-lit fake tree, with lots of carefully-hung ornaments on it. 

    Every year I threaten to just knock it over, wrap it in a sheet (still decorated) and haul it up to the attic. Wouldn't THAT save us some time next year!!!

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