About this time in January I start wondering about the appropriate time to turn off all the Christmas decorations. Our interior trappings are all back in the attic now but we still have the wreaths on the windows, by the back door, and the Japanese maple adorned with white lights. Is it time now to take them all down or can we wait about few weeks? Hmmmm
I tend to think that January 15th is the date to aim for. although many people still have their wreaths up well into February. I tend
to think that's a bit much, over a month past Christmas and in the dead of winter. But perhaps the end of January would be OK. I know my husband was ready to pull the wreaths out of the windows New Year's Eve, but I prevailed on that one. After all, a little cheer for a few more weeks isn't a bad thing, right?
Every year I watch as the trees come down along Main Street and wonder if I should coordinate with the highway crews so our lights are also darkened then. But it takes them a couple weeks to get everything taken down, so I guess I'm safe to hold out for a while. It's actually in the village code that Christmas lights must be down by mid-February, although I'm not sure anyone has ever been cited for an infraction. I confess if I see any of those blow-up Santa's after mid-February I may turn them in myself. But tastefully lighted yards I can deal with until March 1st, I suppose.
I'm not sure there's an answer to the dilemma of what date to turn all our carriages back into pumpkins. The trees will again be bare and the windows empty of candles and wreaths all over town soon enough. I wonder if any of the many etiquette books for sale address this particular issue...
I tend to think that January 15th is the date to aim for. although many people still have their wreaths up well into February. I tend
to think that's a bit much, over a month past Christmas and in the dead of winter. But perhaps the end of January would be OK. I know my husband was ready to pull the wreaths out of the windows New Year's Eve, but I prevailed on that one. After all, a little cheer for a few more weeks isn't a bad thing, right?Every year I watch as the trees come down along Main Street and wonder if I should coordinate with the highway crews so our lights are also darkened then. But it takes them a couple weeks to get everything taken down, so I guess I'm safe to hold out for a while. It's actually in the village code that Christmas lights must be down by mid-February, although I'm not sure anyone has ever been cited for an infraction. I confess if I see any of those blow-up Santa's after mid-February I may turn them in myself. But tastefully lighted yards I can deal with until March 1st, I suppose.
I'm not sure there's an answer to the dilemma of what date to turn all our carriages back into pumpkins. The trees will again be bare and the windows empty of candles and wreaths all over town soon enough. I wonder if any of the many etiquette books for sale address this particular issue...
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For me anytime during the first week of January is acceptable. February to me is pushing it a little bit.
I have noticed in recent years the candles in the windows staying year round.
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