What do you mean Christmas is over??? - Page 2 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
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Moving on with the current of the years.
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To a new day, we go on.
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The inside decorations have been down quite a while at our place, but we still have our outside Christmas lights up and lit at night. We're not alone. Even the City still had their outdoor decorations/lights up last time I was downtown (last Friday). However, when you get 16+ hours of night per day and it's 30 below, it's nice to see the cheery multi-coloured lights reflecting off the snow or peeking out from under a snow-covered hedge or bushes to give us all a little boost from the long cold winter.
ETA: Another reason we leave our outdoor decorations up is because it's too cold in January to take them down anyway!
Why is it nobody seems to thinks it's wrong with putting your Christmas decorations and trees up the day after Thanksgiving, but if you leave them up after New Years, people go crazy? Our tree doesn't go up until 2 weeks before
Christmas cause I am a firm believer in ONE HOLIDAY AT A TIME and although I was late taking it down this year (just last Sunday) at least nobody but DH and I saw it. It sat for a week with just the lights still on it. I kept teasing DH that I was going to leave it up all year!
Our inside decorations have been down since 12/27. Our outside stuff is still up, but it is so buried in snow you can't tell! Our lights on the house are up too, but we did unplug them. We've had so much snow this winter we didn't have a chance to get our stuff down.
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In Biloxi, there is a very large Asian community, and quite a few of them still have up there Christmas decorations, but they will be celebrating Chinese New Year soon!!! Then they will take them down.
My neighbors still have their lights up but I have to give them a little slack as parts of the decorations are buried under a foort of snow and ice. They don't turn them on, though.
Liz
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One house around the corner left their Christmas wreath on the gate all year last year. We still have several houses around with lights on them too. Ours came down right after New Years.
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Some people still have their decorations up because it's been too cold to take them down.
We took advatage have the good weather on New Years Day and got to them then.
Oh man I wish I had people to put our outside stuff away. It has been so cold, I left it out for a while.
As for the "inside", I took down the big tree YESTERDAY. Because I've had no free time, and the Children of the Corn don't like going to the basement where I store it all. It has been unplugged since after New Year's Day. Most of the other "around the house" decorations and smaller trees came down right after New Year's.
Most of my delay is due to the fact that I haul it all out myself, decorate by myself, so apparently I must clean it up by myself. One year I waited to see if anyone asked if I would decorate. It was December 22, and I got too frustrated. My DH is not a big fan of all the Christmas Hoo Ha. I think he must not have had Hoo Ha as a kid like mine was. I bet he didn't even have a stocking, which is why mine hangs empty most years. I shouldn't have to fill my own stocking. Or perhaps I just put in nice diamond earrings next year??????
My outdoor stuff is still up, but it's not necessarily Christmas-oriented (except for the giant candy cane....). The polar bear is buried under a foot of snow, and the snowman is right next to him. The icicles are still up, but I only have stuff lit in the dark of morning when we're waiting for the school bus to arrive.
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I agree Joan fill your own stocking next year with lots of nice shiny baubles!!!
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