My wife took everything down this morning while I was still asleep, and doesn’t understand why I am nonplussed and deflated. Anyone else with me on this? I just wanted to wait until the first week of January–even Jan. 2 would be fine.
It seems early to me. We generally keep ours up until the weekend after/of New Years.
We’re taking ours down tonight, and I agree it feels too early. …
We just finished taking down the stuff inside, including the tree. We usually wait unto New Years Day, but we have plans. The outdoor lights are still plugged in, will probably leave them for another week or so.
I guess this year was kind of short and kind of meh, so I was fine with putting the house to right sooner than usual.
We used to keep them up until New Year’s, but we didn’t have much his year. We had a warm snap this weekend - it was in the 30s, and it’s going to get cold again this week, so the outside stuff came down.
I took mine down today because it was my last chance for my wife and I to have help from my two daughters. 
After today we would be doing it by ourselves. Hell with that. Many hands make light work.
Christmas lasts for exactly twelve days - from sundown on December 24th to sundown on January 5th - and decorations should be displayed accordingly.
… or at least until it starts being light out longer!
I have twinkly white lights throughout the house on topiaries and tuteurs (ok, Christmas decorations) just to add some Life to the endless darkness of winter. They can stay up til summer.
I took my tree and decorations down yesterday. Now my indoor plant can be restored to its rightful place next to the window (where the tree stood).
Don’t panic folks…it’s only another nine months until the madness starts all over again. 
Ours stays up until Epiphany (Jan 6) or soon after, just 'cause we love the lights and garlands.
We keep ours up until after New Year’s. Sometimes that’s a couple days after, sometimes a week or so. Almost every year there’s some little something I can’t bear to pack away again, it looks so good, so it stays. There’s a plaid bow stuck on the wooden cornice over our kitchen sink that’s been there about fifteen years. A thick net gold star has perched on top of the refrigerator for several years now. On the DR corner cupboard is a small gift box that just “goes” with everything else (I swear it does!) so it stayed. This year’s acquisition is going to be the little 2" ceramic Christmas tree with a teddy bear, sitting slightly behind the radio…one of these days people might be calling me the Crazy Christmas Lady, but that’s better than a lot of other things they could say. (I think I won’t worry until I’m dusting the porch Santa Claus in June.)
If you don’t keep the lights and decorations up until Epiphany, how will the 3 kings know where to go?
I don’t do outside decorations, just inside the house. I generally try to take them down by the first week of March 
This year I decided to do something different. No decorations, just a bare tree in the middle of the living room. I’ll take it down when it starts to dry out. Anybody know how long a tree will live if I keep watering and feeding it?
Ours stay up until Epiphany … but I’ve got to tell you, I’ve been fantasizing about taking them down now. I’m still off work, not too busy yet with New Year’s, it’s a pain in the butt to clean around … I’m tempted. I can see why someone would decide to do it and get the house back to normal.
In my family we wouldn’t even think of taking them down before Epiphany, and probably wouldn’t get around to it for a few weeks past that. Before even New Year’s is inconceivable.
the Easter Bunny takes down the Xmas decorations.
De-decorating is my typical New Year’s Day activity.
I’m going to go against the grain of the thread and say I’m starting to get sick of our decorations.
I promised the wife I wouldn’t take anything down until the 1st, because Christmas is her favorite holiday, but honestly I will be glad to not have to remember to turn off the lights, move the extra couch cushions around so I can sit, and keep our toddler away from the tree. Don’t get me wrong, the decorations are nice for a while, but I would not have complained at all if they came down December 26th.
When I was little, we didn’t put anything up until the 18th or so. My dad told me his family put the tree up on Christmas Eve. Do you think that putting decorations up on Thanksgiving weekend, as s many people do now, makes us tire of them quicker and more anxious to take them down right after Christmas?
People used to keep decorations till the 6th. In the traditional 12 days of Christmas. Now I think Christmas fervor starts so soon that by the time Christmas comes people are quite sick of it. At least in the US. I don’t know if it is like that in Europe, Canada or South America.