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Ok Christmas is a nice time of year and all. But every night when I go home I still see houses with Christmas trees and Christmas lights up. Christmas is over. Even Eastern Christmas is over. Yet there are at least ten houses I see still celebrating. I say enough allready!!! Lets get onto the next holiday. (Though I do admit Presidents Day doesn't have a lot of pretty lights)
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We have a couple houses in my town that have lights up all year. When they take their Christmas lights down they put up the Valentine lights. They have lights for every holiday I think--- Easter Egg lights, they decorate with red, white, and blue for Memorial Day, Labor Day and Veterans Day, Halloween lights, etc. It's getting to be where you don't even need a calendar, just go by their houses and you know approx. what month it is LOL.
FYI, Scott the next holiday is Groundhog Day, then Valentine's Day, THEN President's day. Get those Groundhog's Day decorations out, pronto! Speaking of one holiday at a time, I saw EASTER candy at work yesterday. In January. Not that I mind, b/c I LOVE Cadbury's Mini Eggs and Reese's Eggs but could we at least get into February before we put it out?
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We have a couple houses in my town that have lights up all year. When they take their Christmas lights down they put up the Valentine lights. They have lights for every holiday I think--- Easter Egg lights, they decorate with red, white, and blue for Memorial Day, Labor Day and Veterans Day, Halloween lights, etc. It's getting to be where you don't even need a calendar, just go by their houses and you know approx. what month it is LOL.
We have one of those houses just a couple miles from us as well.
Well Scott, we celebrate both Christmases (Dec. 25 and Jan. 7) and I finally put away the trees and decorations 2 days ago. Personally, I would leave my trees up all the time - I love looking at them and view them more as Winter decorations than Christmas decorations. Also, what goes on behind closed doors is each person's own business.
However- outside lights should be down by now! And the plastic replica of Punxsutawney Phil should be proudly displayed on the front lawn or snowbank.
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I don't understand why lights don't get taken down by 1/1 if not 12/26
Last night I saw lights up & on in our neighborhood.. I wanted to go to the door with a calendar!
We "have people" who take care of outside lights (up and down) for us, so those are down (but we usually wait until first Monday after Eastern Orthodox Christmas to ask for lights to be taken down). Inside lights - whole different story. DH and I are both in finance side of business, so January is sheer $%## at work. When you are working 12+ hour days during the week and 8+ hours on weekends, getting the "inside" Christmas decorations taken down is not even on the "to do" list. I fully intend to light the trees again tonight so that I can finally relax and enjoy them one last time (now that reporting deadlines are all behind me), before they get taken down tomorrow.
I'm always finding myself on the opposite, and this is no exception. I Christmas lights, my city has them up until the end of February and I think it's great! Our tree didn't come down until last week, and we still all miss the perfect light it gives off after 5pm.
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Christmas lights, my city has them up until the end of February and I think it's great! Our tree didn't come down until last week, and we still all miss the perfect light it gives off after 5pm.
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