elfman

In my neighbourhood at least 50% of the houses still have their Christmas lights up and blazing away, complete with Santas, reindeer etc. Some of my neighbours still have their Christmas trees still up inside. Is this normal here? I always thought it was bad luck to keep it all up after Jan 6th.

Tami2

Only bad luck if you're Catholic, Elf. The have some special celebration on the 6th, I think.
Don't tell anyone, but my tree is still up too. Hubby was just able to make it over for a visit this week, so we kept it up to celebrate with him. I DO need to take it down soon though.

Sarah

No 6th Jan is Epiphany for the proddy religions too. I asked my hubby about the fact that people keep their decorations up longer - he said they don't have the 'bad luck' thing over here and people just take them down when they feel like it.

Tami2

Ok, just thought it was a Catholic thing because our old neighbors, who were Catholic, made a big deal about the Eppiphany on the 6th. I was raised Baptist and never heard of it until my neighbor mentioned it.
Sorry for the misinformation, Sarah.

Webbie

Funnily enough...

Heard an advert on one of the local radio stations.
Was a public announcement from the City but if you were not listening close enough you could have sworn it was just another ad for a "ve-hi-cul" or something.

Any-way.....

It was a warning from the City to anyone who still had their lights up that they had to remove them by suchandsuch date or there will be trubble for them. They made clear in no uncertain terms that the authorities would come down hard on anyone that had all the lights still outside.
But as mentioned it was done in a same style as all the other ads.
The way they it was worded left you in no doubt of the threat though. In the same vein as one about terrorism.
The makers of the commercial must be a branch of the dept of homeland security.

Pulaski

It's not at all unusual to see houses around my part of NC, and up into SW Virginia where I lived before, to see houses with their icicle lights up year-round. They just are't turned on between mid January and Thanksgiving.

Jan Alaska

If youre lucky they'll take them down to make room for Valentines decs ... if not they'll be up till the winter is over. I've seen houses in N.Michigan with Christmas , Valentine and St.Pats decs up all at the same time.
Brightens the place up if nothing else

Jan

sibsie

I remember going to a Superbowl party at a friend's last year and they still had their full decs up.

Mine went down the day after New Year's Day but lots of my neighbours still have them up. My husband is pissed off with me driving round and giving him "They've still got their decs up" reports.

elfman

Are we talking jail time?

Bob

Lot of places still have 'em up, mainly because there frozen to the ground...this year was pretty mild, so a lot of places removed them early, but there's still lots of places with lights...

Ash UK/US

Probably a fine
They have stuff like that in GR too... not with xmas lights but here you are not allowed to park on your front yard (lawn) or park a commercial vehicle out the front of your property... they do enforce this too... our neighbour got a warning letter (for a fine) if she did remove her car... hubby uses magnetic flags to cover the logo on his company vehicle.

To the OP... our company is holding their christmas party on Jan 23rd.

Ash

Taffyles

Ours came down on the 6th...bad luck to keep them up after 12th night - and we were the last ones to take them down in our subdivision.

Pimpbot

We still have two tree's on the patio. Not decorated, but I just haven't had chance to get rid of them. I may just leave them out until june/july when the heat will kill them.

vegas

As a opposite observation on boxing day I went out and saw numerous trees outside peoples houses waiting for the garbage truck

AdobePinon

Where I used to live on the left coast there was a big ol' doobie-clutching animated Santa with the words 'Joy to the World' on one guy's roof. It was running year-round. Thing must have been a good 20 feet tall...