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Gigi asks:

What time/date does one take down the Christmas decoration? Is it the 6th before midnight? Or the 6th after midnight? that is the 7th…

Anyone? What’s the norm?

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42 thoughts on “Ask A Broadsheet Reader”

Slightly Bemused January 6, 2015 at 1:38 pm

Traditionally in my home it was “evening of the 6th after the kids had gone to bed”

Dan January 6, 2015 at 1:39 pm

January 7th – the day after the Epiphany.

Ride This Pony January 6, 2015 at 1:40 pm

If you’re superstitious take it down on the 6th, if you don’t give a shit about superstition take it down any time.

I’m sure there is some “reason” to take it down on the 6th, but I couldn’t be arsed googling it.

I took my tree down yesterday, cos that’s how I roll.

Ride Me

the good helen January 6, 2015 at 1:46 pm

me too….. it was doing my nut in so i took it down. simple as. Don’t do all that jazz of dates to take it down. BREAK THE MOLD – take it down lady!!! (cos no man would ask that question being honest).
Kill The Poor January 6, 2015 at 1:53 pm

I took it down yesterday, but purely because the cleaner was coming today.
Normally night of the 6th.
1. LiamZero January 6, 2015 at 2:32 pm
  
  Could you not have got your cleaner to take it down for you, Kill The Poor?
  1. Kill the Poor January 6, 2015 at 2:33 pm
    
    And pocket some of the tinsel ! Never !!
GiGi January 6, 2015 at 2:25 pm

Ahhh thanks but no thanks. : )

Medium Sized C January 6, 2015 at 1:49 pm

The weekend after the 6th.

Get a job.

andyourpointiswhatexactly January 6, 2015 at 1:54 pm

Jeez. How big is your gaff that you need a whole day to take down your decos?
1. All the good ones fly south for winter January 6, 2015 at 2:26 pm
  
  He has but one arm you shod.
2. Medium Sized C January 6, 2015 at 2:30 pm
  
  Its pretty small.
  But we go hard at christmas.
  
  Also I’m not leaving an undecorated tree in my living room and I’m not dragging the feckin thing down to the recycling on a work night.
GiGi January 6, 2015 at 2:27 pm

Have a job thanks. Trying to get the tree down after supper some evening. : )

Atticus January 6, 2015 at 1:50 pm

Apparently Candlemas (which falls on the 2nd February) is the proper time to take it down.

Randy Ewing January 6, 2015 at 1:54 pm

I heard the first equinox after the spring solstice ?
1. the good helen January 6, 2015 at 2:02 pm
  
  is that english?
  1. pedeyw January 6, 2015 at 2:11 pm
    
    Of course, the spring solstice. That’s a thing that exists. Like the mid winter equinox.
    1. Randy Ewing January 6, 2015 at 2:26 pm
      
      ‘When Julius Caesar established his calendar in 45 BC he set 25 March as the spring equinox.[citation needed] Because a Julian year (365.25 days) is slightly longer than an actual year the calendar drifted with respect to the equinox, such that the equinox was occurring on about 21 March in AD 300 and by AD 1500 it had reached 11 March’
      
      KNOB
    2. pedeyw January 6, 2015 at 3:07 pm
      
      sigh.,…
      “I heard the first equinox after the spring solstice”
      Solstices are the longest and shortest days of the year, during mid winter and mid Summer. Spring and Autumn only have equinoxes, not solstices.
    3. Randy Ewing January 6, 2015 at 3:12 pm
      
      Double Sigh
      
      Double KNOB
    4. pedeyw January 6, 2015 at 3:18 pm
      
      Good talk.
2. Paul January 6, 2015 at 2:10 pm
  
  I hear you just feckin’ leave the whole lot up and have no visitors for the year. Nobody would be any the wiser.
Medium Sized C January 6, 2015 at 2:30 pm

QI?
1. Mark Dennehy January 6, 2015 at 2:36 pm
  
  Yup.
2. Atticus January 6, 2015 at 2:39 pm
  
  Si

Bingo January 6, 2015 at 1:55 pm

Whenever you like.
Shine on you crazy diamonds.

Clampers Outside! January 6, 2015 at 2:07 pm

I once left the tree up until March. I was soooo cool back then. It’s easier when your tree is only 3ft and artificial.

Spaghetti Hoop January 6, 2015 at 2:11 pm

Mine is a mere 80cm tall. It took all of 2 minutes last Saturday to put back in its box. Shame the same can’t be said of some folk….
1. Spaghetti Hoop January 6, 2015 at 2:11 pm
  
  *60cm
  1. andyourpointiswhatexactly January 6, 2015 at 2:15 pm
    
    Are you still talking about your tree? I have my doubts.
    1. Paul January 6, 2015 at 2:18 pm
      
      now 40cm.
    2. LiamZero January 6, 2015 at 2:36 pm
      
      It’s a bit cold in here, OK?! This doesn’t usually happen to Spaghetti Hoop, it’s the first time in fact…
    3. Spaghetti Hoop January 6, 2015 at 2:46 pm
      
      Certainly is Liam0. My ‘operation’ is deemed a success.
    4. Good Lordy roll over January 6, 2015 at 6:32 pm
      
      death to the ally angst … unleash young Hoop

Mikeyfex January 6, 2015 at 2:37 pm

This ‘Ask a Broadsheet Reader’ bit has shown to be a great success. Who’d have thought it…

ThePeoplesHero January 6, 2015 at 2:56 pm

Candlemas is a different thing altogether…. All decorations must be taken down on the 12th night…. that was yesterday evening – the 5th….. the math ‘ain’t hard….. The whole 12 days before and 12 days after is incorrect….

FK January 6, 2015 at 3:35 pm

Maths, godammit!

Mr. T. January 6, 2015 at 3:04 pm

6th for self aware faux religious middle class types who care what the neighbours think.

End of January for working class who love the bit of sparkle to brighten up their otherwise grey lives.

GiGi January 6, 2015 at 3:34 pm

That’d be me then…

Neighbours took down theirs last night as they were gone this morning. Obviously I’m trying to hold out a bit longer. Love a bit of sparkle me…. it must be my workin class roots. : )