After Christmas Holidays and When Christmas Ends

 

                                            After Christmas Holidays and When Christmas Ends

Welcome to LilacsNDreams! Hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday time. Now what? When do we take the Christmas lights down? When should we remove Christmas decorations? How long do I really want to leave things up inside the house, and outside too. Questions of right away, or how long is the right time to then remove things. Many thoughts, and ideas about these questions are shared by many people everywhere. 

First of all for me I am disappointed about how fast Christmas disappeared with many businesses. Use to be a really big thing the 1st 2 days after Christmas was doing returns of items received. This would take place because maybe an item was the wrong size, item does not work, item broke, maybe an item was duplicated in receiving, unfortunately maybe not real pleased with what was received, and there are many reasons for all the returns and exchanges after Christmas. This year after Christmas going into a store sometimes we are anxious to look at christmas decorations, and decor with all the major mark downs. Not as much was seen as I am use to seeing from the past years. Also, Valentines items were already being put out. Christmas is done, push it out, onto the next. So very sad because Christmas is a special time of year with many thoughts, feelings, and beliefs too. 

Something I was also reminded of was that the twelfth day of Christmas was known as the Twelfth night before the feast of the Epiphany, the coming of the wise men to visit the baby Jesus in Bethlehem. The twelfth night may have signaled the end of Christmas for some. Others have celebrated with feasts, games, and plays. So, then does Christmas end on January 5th, or January 6th. The end of the festive season is on January 6th. It’s an ancient Christian feast day that celebrates the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist, and with the arrival of the Three Wise Men. 

So, when many leave all the lights, and decorations up for everyone to see some of the reasoning is because officially Christmas is not over. Others leave things up because they like it, and want to. When some do remove Christmas they still leave some things out that they feel relates to winter. Such things like pine, snowmen, cardinals, angels, trees, reindeer, and whatever else they feel appropriate.

So, if you pulled everything right away that is fine, and that is your choice to do so. If you leave things up longer for whatever reason you have that is also acceptable too. Here we still have everything up inside the home, and outside too. Everything is lit up every night, and I so enjoy it all yet. I smile when I see others doing the same thing too. There is no right, or wrong choice to the decision that we make. Please respect the decision of everyone with this issue, and remind yourself that there are reasons for everyone to do what they do. 

I am happy you stopped by LilacsNDreams today, and I Thank You for the visit. Till the next time everyone be safe, and enjoy what you do. Take care!