My wife is on a crusade. To get us in the Tachy Light Show of Richmond. Not all at once, but each year we add some more, and some more. I figure next year we will qualify! But it takes a long time to put up 20k lights! So when it comes to taking them down, I am a charter member of the Procrastinators club.
Fortunately, Aunt Ginny has bestowed on their lowly serfs a 4 day weekend in the middle of January. We not only get MLK day off, but a thing (that long predated it) called Lee-Jackson day off. Both on around the same weekend (for the furiners - that is the weekend coming up). So I will start boxing them up this friday, and finish by Monday (I hope).
Some here turn off their lights the day after Christmas. Some leave them on through New Years day (at night of course). I have always followed the 12 days of Christmas which ends on the Epiphany - Jan 6th. So I leave them up at least until then. But then, the weekend is only a week later!!!!!
But I am curious for you decorators. When do you de-deck the halls? And what have you heard about how long to leave them up? No, we are not the ones with them still up in February. But we squeeze a week or 2 more out of the thing just because decorating is fund (well at least beautiful). Undecorating is just plain work!
Undeck the halls of them boughs of Holly, fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la..........