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My tree came down yesterday as well. Nice to get back to normality after all the fuss and nonsense. Thankfully its all over for another year

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I thought this must be a North thing as I, a southerner always thought you left your decorations up until 12th night and after that it was bad luck.

Up here people seemed to get them down on New Years Day one woman had already thrown her chrissy cards out for recycling. I felt a bit sad. I don't particularly like all the commercialism of Christmas but love my tree which isn't real and I will miss the lights in my window when they all come down and things will just look dull until Spring.

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Cate, mine are still up and will stay there until after the 6th. It will take hours to get them down, huge tree, ceiling, walls, pictures, ornaments all covered in decs also in the porch, hall and kitchen. Kids christmas pictures up, seven sets of lights. Like Santa's grotto in our house. I will be sad when they are gone.

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I have a cousin whose house is so warm and welcoming at Christmas with a huge tree and stocking hanging on the mantleshelf, she has kept all of her grown up children's tree decorations and it will be sad to see it all go.

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I understand where your cousin is coming from Cate. I love all our decorations, they are way over the top so everyone says. If it was just us I would just do a few decs. I do it for for the grandchildren, they see it every year and if I didn't they'd be so disappointed. I make a rod for my own back don't I?

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We always tend to overdo the decs for the grandchildren as well. The looks on their faces and the squeals of excitement more than compensates for the extra bit of dust they create!

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I am so glad you do too Mags, the younger generation don't seem to do they? Yes, the look on their faces when they come in is magical. I actually found some paper chains this year for them to make.

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My daughter always buys the glued paper strips for the children to make paper chains ...... she remembers that from her own childhood when I used but them buy them for her and my son

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When I was little many moons ago, they used to wait until Christmas Eve to put the decs up. One year my big sister had threaded cotton wool onto thread and hung strands up in the hall so that it looked like it was snowing. Although we didn't get such expensive pressies and really everything was a surprise Christmas was kind of magical. In the weeks before grown ups would talk in whispers and strange shaped things would be hidden in mums wardrobe.

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I always thought Twelfth Night was 5th January and that all decorations had to be removed by midnight on that date to avoid bad luck. As it says here: http://www.whichday.com/articles/index.php?article=16