Is yours still up?

I live in an apartment, so we didn't do outside lights, but our Christmas tree is down. If we did have outside lights, I can almost guarentee THEY WOULD STILL BE UP. My husband works long hours & it's on the night shift, so when he gets home all he wants is to go to bed. During the day one of us (or both if we can find a baby sitter) drive a hour and a half to visit our daughter in the NICU (I mentioned what's wrong in your topic about winning the lotto) and by the time we pick up our son & get home, he usually has time to get a quick bite to eat then off to work he goes. Oh and I wouldn't get up on a ladder & take them down myself, because I'm pregnant again & it wouldn't be smart in case I lost my balance.

Oh good grief, I can't believe I am admitting to this but my Christmas decorations are still up. I have no reason or excuse other than laziness. I'm actually hoping if I ignore them they will go away. Ok, not likely but wouldn't that be nice.

OMG!!! I am so in the gutter! I wish I could tell you what went through my mind when I read the title of this discussion, but then I would be more embarrassed then before!! Anyhoo, to answer your question, no I have taken everything down. Even though it was just a small cloth tree that my mom had made for me, I regrettably had to put it away a few days ago!! But the year that my fiance and I "hooked up" (4 years ago), they still had their tree up and it was in the middle of November...now that is a long time to have Christmas stuff still up!! LoL!!

I haven't seen this response yet, unless I missed it. Ours our down but they should be up. Every year our priest explains around this time that most people took there xmas lights down a week ago when they shouldn't. Truly, we should have kept them up at least until sunday the the 7th. Some people keep them up even longer. Our priest says there is another reason to celebrate on that sunday - I think it's the epiphany, and that religiously speaking you should want to keep your lights up til then. Like I said, we don't because it's more convenient to take them down after New Years when we are still on vacation, but if you wonder why some people have them up, that may be the reason!

no i don't nymore!!...

we didnt put any decorations up this year because we were in the process of moving to a new house, and to look back it seems like there wasnt a christmas this year. the decorations make a big differens psychologically. at least to me.

I actually took mine down the day after christmas. I usually keep them up a long time after, but I couldnt take it. I needed the mess gone. I tore it down at like 8 pm and had it all put away right after. I actually put it up earlier this year though. I did it a week before thanksgiving.

We still have our blue icicle lights on the outside of our house. Our inside decorations came down last week. I have tried to get my husband to take the blue lights down. They have been there for nearly 3 years now and only half of them work. I should just get them down myself. Maybe if the warm weather comes back soon I will get them down.

We have kids too at home, my cousins. They love the lights.. so usually it'll be around til end of january. It just makes me happy to see kids when their faces lights up in awe! Such a cute thing :)

No.I took my christmas lights down the day after the new year.And I too have been driving around my town and seeing other people with their christmas lights still up and all I can think of why is that those people are too lazy to take them down.

We still have our christmas lights up at our house. We are planning on taking them down within the next few weeks. We still turn them on, and with a snowstorm in the forecast, we're excited to have them on with a little snow flying through the air. Christmas might be over, but we still have a little cheer left!

My outside Christmas lights are still up because I still have eight inches of snow around my house. The inside decorations are put away, the tree has been taken down, now I just have to wait for this snow to melt.

this year i didnt even put up a tree. because i have 2 9 month old kittens that tear up everything as it is let alone a tree. i was kind of disappointed but it's ok. i would rather my house be nice rather than torn up and tree decorations and pine needles all over the place. but here in my town i havent seen any christmas lights still up.

i have to admit to having our lights up still and this is going on the second week of january! wait,though!!i have a great excuse.....LAZY HUSBAND!! my tree and all interior decorations have been taken down and neatly put away for next year as of new years eve. those outside lights though just may still be there next year ready to turn on for the holidays...thanks to my husband.

Mine are still up because well am afraid to get on the ladder and well my husband hasn't gotten around to it yet...lol I haven't seen anyone else around here that have any up still. They are up but we do not turn them on but I would like to get them down. lol Also I think some people have family that come at the first of the year and they want it to still be festive. I know one family keeps em up because his wife loves Christmas and well she likes to keep the lights up a lil longer than normal.

Well we took our lights down on the 7th January after "Little Christmas" was over. But I've seen houses too that still have their lights up AND turned on too. I've noticed too that some people had put their lights up at the beginning of November and turned them on. I can't understand this.

We just took our Christmas decorations down this past weekend. Sunday was the Epiphany, so I would say after that Christmas is officially over. I see no reason to keep the decorations or lights up after that. Although they do look so pretty.

No, we don't still have any up, but then we haven't really been putting up Christmas decorations here for years *laugh* On the other hand, I have still seen Christmas decorations up around our neighborhood. It doesn't bother me, though! I think that it is beautiful, so why rush to take them down? ^_^ It's really fun, too, around Christmas time, to drive around just looking at the displays that some people have. I couldn't beleive a few people's yards that we passed by this December.. one person had their entire (smallish) yard _entirely_ filled with huge blow up Christmas themed decorations, lights and whatnot! It was amazing *laugh* And it was a bit much! *laugh*

We took ours down on Saturday - twelfth night. I fit waas down to me they probably would still be up but my wife is good with getting these sorts of jobs done. It's supposed to be bad luck to leave them up after the ^th of Jan - if thats true then there are quite a few in our street that sould be crossing their fingers.

I take down my tree on New Year's Day always - kind of a tradition I've made up for myself to get a new start on the new year. Then by the evening, everything is cleaned up and ready to go.