[Politics] Are your DECCIES down ?

[Easy 10]

What an absolute MISSION. It took half the day for us to disassemble the tree, pack all the glowing TAT away (after removing the batteries), scale a ladder to take down all the outside lights, move the tables, lamps and birdcage back into position, hoover up all the glitter and shit, polish the surfaces, box and bag everything up, hump it all up the stairs and then up into the attic. I must admit our living room is like Blackpool Tower at Christmas, but in my defence, I do have grandkids.

Anyway, it all comes back down again in 11 months for the cycle to begin again assuming I'm not crippled. But right now, I'm enjoying a spiced rum, with my newly uncluttered living room being back to normal, safe in the knowledge its not going to take me 15 minutes to turn all the lights off before I shuffle off to bed tonight. For the first time in a month.

Is it worth it ? If I say 'no', then apparently I'm a "Victor"

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Ours came down yesterday, I played the part of taking the excess Xmas rubbish to the tip and got “stuck”in a queue, lucky I had a coffee on board and a load of podcasts to catch up on.

Back for lunch was purely coincidental

 

[Normal Rob]

Came down today. Thank god.

 

[Mr Bridger]

What an absolute MISSION. It took half the day for us to disassemble the tree, pack all the glowing TAT away (after removing the batteries), scale a ladder to take down all the outside lights, move the tables, lamps and birdcage back into position, hoover up all the glitter and shit, polish the surfaces, box and bag everything up, hump it all up the stairs and then up into the attic. I must admit our living room is like Blackpool Tower at Christmas, but in my defence, I do have grandkids.

Anyway, it all comes back down again in 11 months for the cycle to begin again assuming I'm not crippled. But right now, I'm enjoying a spiced rum, with my newly uncluttered living room being back to normal, safe in the knowledge its not going to take me 15 minutes to turn all the lights off before I shuffle off to bed tonight. For the first time in a month.

Is it worth it ? If I say 'no', then apparently I'm a "Victor"

Just cling film the tree and lob it in the loft.

 

[dazzer6666]

What an absolute MISSION. It took half the day for us to disassemble the tree, pack all the glowing TAT away (after removing the batteries), scale a ladder to take down all the outside lights, move the tables, lamps and birdcage back into position, hoover up all the glitter and shit, polish the surfaces, box and bag everything up, hump it all up the stairs and then up into the attic. I must admit our living room is like Blackpool Tower at Christmas, but in my defence, I do have grandkids.

Anyway, it all comes back down again in 11 months for the cycle to begin again assuming I'm not crippled. But right now, I'm enjoying a spiced rum, with my newly uncluttered living room being back to normal, safe in the knowledge its not going to take me 15 minutes to turn all the lights off before I shuffle off to bed tonight. For the first time in a month.

Is it worth it ? If I say 'no', then apparently I'm a "Victor"

100% exactly the same here, pretty much all day on it. I was gently questioning ‘whether it was wor………’. …...and that’s as far as I got

 

[Bozza]

Still UP here.

I keep counting 12 days on my fingers, and I've just done so again. So the 5th/6th is the traditional time, isn't it?

Regardless, having not done it today, which was clearly the sensible thing to do, they'll probably last the week as people return to work, school and the general mundaneness of life for the next few days.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Anything more than a couple of days after boxing day is madness!

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Still UP here.

I keep counting 12 days on my fingers, and I've just done so again. So the 5th/6th is the traditional time, isn't it?

Regardless, having not done it today, which was clearly the sensible thing to do, they'll probably last the week as people return to work, school and the general mundaneness of life for the next few days.

Before 12th night so by the 6th of January.
People put them up far too early so are sick of them by Christmas. I will do a little bit each day now until the weekend, when they will go into the loft.

 

[Easy 10]

Its so cathartic for me to get everything back to normal. I simply cannot abide clutter or mess, and whilst the house is never messy, the living room always feels overly cluttered when there's a tree in the corner, glowing snowmen guarding the TV, and a train in the fireplace. Too much going on.

I'm in a good place right now, with it all packed away. The doris does a LOVELY tree (always her task, she won't let me near it) but the room feels 3 times bigger now with it all gone. Its....ahhhh

 

[wunt be druv]

They all come down and put away on New year's day...always

 

[LamieRobertson]

Anything more than a couple of days after boxing day is madness!

Says the person who’s favourite activity is staring at the ceiling

 

[LamieRobertson]

Nope staying up for a few more days….brighten the place up …anyway I was at work today

 

[talk2knighty]

Every year I take all the decorations down and hurl them, fake tree, lights the lit and buy new again from some shitty garden Center next November

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Says the person who’s favourite activity is staring at the ceiling

Much like Easy says, my job is to stay out the room whilst she gets on with it. It's true though, having it all cleared away is a nice feeling

 

[ManOfSussex]

Before 12th night so by the 6th of January.
People put them up far too early so are sick of them by Christmas. I will do a little bit each day now until the weekend, when they will go into the loft.

It's always seemed to me the people who put them up the earliest are the first to take them down.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Anything more than a couple of days after boxing day is madness!

Still up in our house, sounds like the house of fun where you live.

 

[banjo]

Taken down today. Lovely

 

[Questions]

It’s the annual realisation….. ‘What the f*** was that all about’ ?

 

[BN9 BHA]

Still up, didn’t put many up this year, only put lights on the tree as I’m sure my lunatic puppy would have taken any other bits off again I’m surprised the tree is still in one piece.
We had a wreath on the outside of the front door for one day, the pup kept barking in the hallway because she thought there was someone at the door

 

[Bold Seagull]

Down today. I rolled up the outside lights as carefully as I could knowing in 11 months time I’ll be untangling them swearing at myself for not packing them away more carefully again…