Up and running through the 12 days of Christmas, then lights are up but off until early February (we get like 0 to 3 snowfalls a year, so I leave them up in case we get one, then I can take snowy Christmas pictures).

I had the same problem so I put up some fairy lights around my desk that stay up year-round. They’re LED and use very little electricity and they make me happy. I can change the color on them too!

This is what I came to say. It’s obvious that the responders to that survey do NOT live anywhere with heavy snow. In MN, holiday decorations don’t come down until spring.

Before New Years, clean slate.

Why isn't this higher?

I kind of get taking them down right away if you can fucking get to them but my yard still has a few feet of snow that I have no interest in tramping through to retrieve stuff that isn't hurting anyone. The lights are off now, but the decor remains until the weather stops acting like Christmas!

Depends on what you count as "the end of the holidays" If it's Christmas, then it was more than a month. If it's New Year's, then it's a month (I usually take them down Jan 31) I just do lights, so no inflatable stuff.

There are multiple problems.

The title of the post is asking when people think they should take their decorations down. The actual question is when they took them down. Those are not always the same thing.

The question is also ambiguous. The holiday season does not have the same end date for everyone. For some people it's after Christmas. Others it's after new years. If your Catholic it's through Epiphany or the Sunday after Epiphany.

It's a poorly asked question with an incorrect title.

Australia doesn’t even have a winter holiday!

E. When the goddamn HOA says so.

It always amazes me why people give a crap what other people do. That said, I always leave my tree up at least until January 6 (12th night), but then it comes down when all the needles completely fall off or when I feel able to add another task to my day, whichever comes first. I try to do it by January 15, the last day it will be collected for mulch by the local water department, but sometimes I miss that so chop it up and put it with yard waste for collection. I don’t decorate much other than the tree so no outdoor decor for the neighbors to judge me about 😏

Y axis?

We don't have this here, son

I mean most poor economic situation happen i pairs. We can remake this map with foreclosures too right?

You’re supposed to take them down?

What the fuck does "Whose inflatable snowman is still up" mean?

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The small Christmas tree that sits on my printer is assembled since 2021 xD

Christmas decorations specifically on 6th Jan, the last day of Christmas.

Dunno about other holidays.

My mom had a neighbor with inflatable Santa, Re indoor on roof, etc, up all year. A bit deflated and weather beaten when I saw it in July. It didn’t do a lot for me

>"and the commenter I was responding to was focused on the role of Presidents, not Congress."

Yes, and you both focus on people who did not create the legislation that shipwrecked the economy. That was conservatives in Congress and the banking industry. Carter and Clinton had no hand in drafting legislation. Clinton was culpable also, having not vetoed it, but it may have been overridden. Not likely, but possible. He made a bad decision, working with the GOP. It ruined us.

You don't support my well reasoned conclusion that the GOP were responsible for the repeal of Glass-Steagall, but you're not correct in that, and the vote shows the truth of it. Had Democrat controlled the Senate, the repeal effort would certainly have been defeated, and therefore there would be no bill for Clinton to sign or not sign. A president cannot veto a bill that does not exist. This is why voting for Democrats matters, because the banking collapse of 2008 was disastrous, and it could have been prevented.

Hmmm imo COVID fucked over China too( based on their economic performance right now and recent wave ) far too much for the 2nd option to even be considered but that doesn't mean lab leak theory is not possible. Not to mention how paranoid Xi was from 2020-2022 with his zero-COVID lockdowns and the recent massive waves there, which means he may have known something???.

Not to mention, Xi has been silently, suddenly caring about the the safety regulations of labs in China , something which they never bothered to do before. Maybe Xi knows something??? Why would he do this if he's so confident that it didn't come from a lab. Maybe because deep down he knows the Wuhan lab messed up???. Maybe???

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3150777/xi-jinping-warns-chinese-laboratories-handling-deadly-pathogens

I think that's where the idea of "decorations" needs some clarification. Because you can have seasonal decorations up for an entire season, but holiday decorations start looking a bit out of place after the actual holiday.

So yeah, I leave natural things like decorative gourds or corn decorations out for all of fall, but the bats and black cats and carved jackolanterns typically come down right after Halloween.

Well, traditionally there are 12 days of Christmas so you can start on Christmas Day and call the Feast of Epiphany the end. My family always celebrated "little christmas" on Epiphany with a small gift. And that marked the official end of the christmas season. The tree would typically be down by then, but some of the seasonal decorations would still be up around the house.

Yeah, the way I determine when to take down decorations varies based on the decoration. Some are christmas specific and others are just seasonal for winter.

I do NOT have inflatable anything in my yard. White lights and natural wreaths outside, christmas tree and ornaments inside.

The tree and ornaments get taken down within a week. But the lights around the house can stay up through 'winter' and any natural pine wreaths can stay up as long as they look good. Typically taking them apart in mid February.

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I've heard that dog-walkers appreciate the christmas lights while it's still dark for evening walkies. Leave them up until it starts staying light later.