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Step 1
Take your Christmas lights and decorations down when your neighbors have done so. If you’re the only person with your Christmas decorations still out on your whole block, it may be time to put them away until the next holiday season.
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Step 2
When you take your Christmas tree down, take down your other Christmas decorations. There’s no point to leave up just some of your Christmas decorations. Once your Christmas tree is down, remove all of your Christmas lights and decorations.
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Step 3
Take down your Christmas lights and decorations once stores have removed all Christmas merchandise from the shelves. Stores will leave Christmas merchandise for weeks after December 25. When stores near you have finally removed all Christmas merchandise, it’s probably time to down your decorations.
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Step 4
Take down your Christmas lights and decorations after January 6. January 6 is known as the Feast of the Epiphany and is also the last “day of Christmas.” This is always a good time to remove all of your decorations until the next Christmas.
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Step 5
Take down your Christmas lights and decorations if your lights go out after Christmas. If your lights go out before Christmas, you’ll probably want to fix the problem. However, if they go out sometime in January, you should probably just take them down and either try to fix them next season or just buy new lights.
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Step 6
Remove your Christmas lights and decorations when your local churches have removed all Christmas decorations. Once local churches have removed all Christmas decorations, it’s a good sign to you that you may want to do the same.
Comments
westorbust said
on 1/21/2008 I agree with those tips. Some just seem to want to "cling" to Christmas. I guess maybe because of the cold, dreary days of winter, but it's a bit tacky when one house on the block refuses to let go of the holiday.
grouch said
on 1/3/2008 It is always a guessing game at my house when it will be warm enough to venture on this one. Thanks for all the tips.