No more Christmas songs it's Boxing Day Sunday

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I’d love to do something active today but most of exercise will involve walking to the kitchen to eat cold roast potatoes
 
Does anyone whip the decs down today? I just spoke to a friend who was halfway through taking hers down. I get before New Year, but we are always 12 days after.
 
Mr Ag would them down. It's normally me. I'm feeling more casual this year.
 
I keep a small Christmas tree out until the time SPRINGS FORWARD. I remember Christmas lights being kept on in the trees by the river in Harrogate until then and thought it was a lovely idea.
 
I don’t celebrate Christmas really but there’s still something weird about the day after. So much buildup and it’s over. It’s the same the day after my birthday
 
When it comes to my birthday I'm often glad it's ALL OVER the day after.
 
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Has anybody made the most holy pilgrimage to Westfield/Bluewater/Lakeside/the Trafford Centre/the Bullring today?
 
I’m watching Some Like It Hot but football starts in 5. Very conflicted.
 
Been on the exercise bike. If I start today, it's not a new year resolution. Which means it can't be broken, only parked for the moment because of, I dunno, reasons.
 
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There is a match happening here and kick off is in two minutes, but it must be CROWD-FREE because the streets are totally dead when they'd usually be packed with people :o
 
There is a match happening here and kick off is in two minutes, but it must be CROWD-FREE because the streets are totally dead when they'd usually be packed with people :o
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Does anyone whip the decs down today? I just spoke to a friend who was halfway through taking hers down. I get before New Year, but we are always 12 days after.

I phoned my decorations in this year! The tree with the lights still on from last year was taken out of the box and it's in the bay window with no tinsel or decorations on but from outside you can't tell how bare it is and it looks like we aren't Grinches. There's tinsel over two pictures and the pot dog is wearing his tinsel hat. That's it. The massive box of decorations is here at the side of me, still full.

Normally I take them down around the 5th.
 
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My gravy has set in fridge so it can be spread on bread like a meaty condiment
 
I’m glad I’m not the only one who loses the Christmas magic by Boxing Day. No more festive music and films THANK YOU I’m done til next November. I might put the Christmas lights on of a night but only cos they look pretty.

I’ll partake in the eating, drinking, binge watching and slothing about though. LONG may that continue :disco:
 
The tradition is to take them down after the Epiphany day which is on the 6th but I always leave them on for a couple of weeks after that.

My mum says that if they aren't down by twelfth night (Epiphany Eve) you get goblins in the house and bad luck all year which is a weirdly random mix of religion, superstition and fantasy. I've taken them down earlier, I've taken them down on time and I've taken them down later and my life has just been one bad luck after another so I don't think it matters really :D
 
My mum says that if they aren't down by twelfth night (Epiphany Eve) you get goblins in the house and bad luck all year which is a weirdly random mix of religion, superstition and fantasy
The reason that we have to take it down on the 6th, is exactly because of the Goblins and what your mom says (we use another name for them, but they look exactly the same :D in depictions).
 
I still feel quite festive, but then I didn't spunk it all away by starting four weeks ago. And I haven't been forced into jollity by other people or staying anywhere else.
 

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