I took my main tree down today. I like to get it up early (actually before Thanksgiving) and take it down by New Years. I like the feeling of a fresh start on New Years. I didn't get a lot of other decorations up this year b/c of remodeling projects this fall, but what I did get up is all down.

I do have a second tree. It's white with white lights and I decorate it only with snowmen, icicles, snowflakes, etc, pretty much all in blue and white, nothing Christmassy. It' in my sunroom, and I keep that up through February. I also have blue and white LED icicle/snowflake ligts hanging in that room, and a 4 foot lighted white wicker snowman. My DH and I do enjoy those lights through the long dark winter.

We didn't get any lights up outside this year, so nothing to take down there. This is the first time in 35 years of marriage that we haven't done lights outside, but we barely succeeded in getting the new windows in and the siding on, so we are celebrating that success!