I usually pack up by about the 5th. Years when life isn't going right I tend to have it all down on December 28, because it just looks like one more thing on my to do list.
This year I'm a day behind and plan to take it down tomorrow.

My husband's from Mexico, so we celebrate Epiphany (aka Three Kings Day). We put our shoes under the Christmas tree tonight, and then we'll take down the tree tomorrow (or , more likely, the following day, since we're having a Three Kings Day party tomorrow night with a Mexican rosca cake!)

I've just begun to take down my Christmas decorations. We do leave the tree and stuff up until Epiphany, at least and don't feel any rush to put stuff away. Today I boxed up my Russian angels, tonight the Russian Fathers Christmas will go into their boxes. Next the Nativities. And then the tree. I enjoy every minute: putting it up, having it up, and taking it down.

I was going to start to take down the ornaments...usually, by now, everything is put away. I have a little tabletop 'Charlie Brown' artificial tree, and I'm going to enjoy it a while longer. It's no big deal to take it down...will probably take about a half hour. It's sad to see all the trees on the curb now.

I matched my Christmas tree with the rest of my room and I'm dreading taking it down! I will take down the tree Sunday so it can get picked up for recycling Monday morning.

I would have kept my Christmas tree until the needles dried up and started falling off, because I was enjoying it so much! However, it appears from the city of Boston website that the sanitation department only accepts them for composting during the first couple of weeks in January, so I thought I'd better just take it down now before I miss the time window. They took it away this morning! :( It makes room for my puppy's new bed though, which just arrived today, so I'll bet she's happy.

It was all gone by New Years Day that's the tradition here. Plus my Mum gets hayfever from the tree so its a miracle she can wait that long

We celebrate Epiphany every year with our good friends who are French. We get a Three King's Cake from our local French bakery 'Jean Jacques' in Richmond, VA. For the past 5 years my friend's husband has "found" the hidden figure or bean in his piece - much to the outcries of the children.
I have all my boxes and bags standing by to pack up after the
last celebration.

I posted today something about mexican christmas ornaments knowing that is already an old issue...snif

http://irene-out-there.blogspot.com

My city will take Christmas trees twice a month on their "yard recycling" day, so I'm keeping it up until the needles all fall off or it starts to make me feel depressed.

I'd like to take mine down--I'm ready to have the space back--but my honey says it's cheerful and we could sure use some cheerful. Nothing but gray skies and rain here for days.

Ever since I was a little kid my family has taken our tree down on the 6th, I thought it was because my birthday is the fifth and my parents wanted to leave the tree up for me. How self obsessed and foolish I am!

Just started putting some of the christmas pretties away...which mostly involved throwing away some very brittle pine boughs! the tree's still up, with a few more things here and there, but I'm ready for it to go. I think a week after New Years' is about right (maybe a few days sooner, but this was our first married Christmas and I can say I didn't want it to end :).

Am I the only one who was raised in a semi-Christian family and has NEVER heard of this? Apartment Therapy is my new Wikipedia.

Have put away table decorations but will probably take tree and lighted outdoor wreaths this weekend. Usually try to do this on Epiphany but am so wiped out from working long hours this week so it will wait for the weekend. Actually I am glad to keep tree up a bit longer- after a stressful day at work I like to just sit and enjoy the lights. My family was very Catholic and we celebrated St. Nicholas Day, Christmas & Epiphany!

We put everything away on Sunday. The tree was so dry there was a thick ring of needles underneath. It's a miracle our house didn't catch on fire.

I've been sick the last week or so and have not taken down our decorations-but I normally don't do that until around this time anyway.

I've also become increasingly less tolerant of ornament hangers and want to hang my ornaments using ribbons next year. So, all of my ornaments need to be tied with ribbon before putting them away this year.

Thanks for reminding everyone that the 12 days of Christmas begin on Christmas! Unlike the commercial mass marketers who make everyone think that the 12 days of Christmas ends on Christmas day.

I bought my tree the weekend after Thanksgiving and didn't get it decorated until the 19th. It wasn't until Christmas Eve that the house was finally clean and everything in its place, so I feel I didn't get to enjoy it enough--plus, it adds a warmth and cheeriness that the room normally lacks. I'll probably take it down this weekend. Sigh...

Never heard of this Twelfth Night business...

My decorations come down Dec. 26. By that point I can't take any more.

My mother's family (the Irish Side) didn't put up the tree until Christmas eve, then it cam down after the Epiphany. But since one of my sisters' birtrhday is Jan 8, it became tradition to keep it up until then, now matter when we put it up (these days usually the weekend before Christmas)

I still remember the first year in the suburban house we bought when I was 6 or so, and my mother watched in total horror as the neighbors across the street took down their tree on Dec 26. I, for one, wish more people kept up their lights et al after the holidays -- that's when you can slow down and really enjoy them!

I think the problem with decorating too early is that by Christmas we can be tired of it; we can't wait to take things down. May I suggest to some of you that you wait to put up the tree and other decorations until shortly before Christmas. I find I can many enjoy things so much more after this holiday, when things have quieted down.

My mother always told me it was bad luck to keep decorations up after New Years Day, so we would take them down on the first. But I've never heard that from anyone else, so I'm starting to think she made it up when my sister and I wanted to keep the tree up longer and she just wanted it down.

We take all the overtly Christmas stuff down on the first, but leave the winterty stuff like wreaths, white lights, and snow men up through Feburary.

Best part of Epiphany is the start of Mardi Gras season -- which can only mean bright purple, green and gold decorations (the white trash girl inside me loves it) and king cake! Gotta love living in south Louisiana.

Most of my decorations came down last week. I put up Christmas lights all the way around my living room and kitchen and well, there not commin down this year (they were too much of a pain to put up) and the ones on the deck, they will be up till may. Oh and Jack sparrow (my new ordment is NEVER comming off the tv.

um... my halloween decorations are still up on my door. Is there a traditional day to take those down?

When the real cobwebs get thicker than the fake ones?

it's xmas again today for me, so i keep my decorations - such as they are - up until the 8th or 9th every year.