Don’t you just hate those people who leave their Christmas decorations up way past Christmas and New Year’s Day. It is understandable that you leave them up until the weekend of/after Epiphany (January 6 or January 19 depending on calendar,church, or who you ask) as some families have that as the traditional end of the holiday season.  With my parents (as with most families in my childhood-years geographical location), we took down Christmas decorations the weekend after Christmas (they went up the weekend before) which was a sign that Christmas vacation was almost over.  Yeah, when I was a kid, Christmas school vacation started the day before Christmas eve and we had to report back to school on weekday closest to January 2.

The tradition with my family is to keep decorations up until Epiphany which my wife has set as January 6.  The date must be a local tradition as I had never even heard of Epiphany before I met my wife.  All this means is that I get my ass up early on the weekend after January 6 and take down the decorations… by my lonesome… as in everyone else is sleeping late… and I have my own system of re-packing decorations.

And you are saying, what the hell does that have to do with anything?  Well, Mr. Smartypants, it mean that just now finished taking down and packing the decorations.  Yes, the weekend after the weekend after January 6, a new record for leaving decorations up. Next year I am going for broke and waiting until the weekend after the Superbowl to take them down.

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