im from new orleans and we usually leave them up until Mardi Gras and change the bulbs to purple green and gold!!!!! but now i live in NYC and am quite confused.... whats normal out here?!?!?
2007-12-25 04:04:01 · 8 answers · asked by Celeste A C 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
It seems the official day is the same everywhere: January 6th, the Day of the Epiphany, which is also the first day of Mardi Gras season in New Orleans, a.k.a. King Cake Day.
2007-12-25 16:21:12 · answer #1 · answered by MDHarp 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It would probably be "neighbor friendly" to turn the lights off sometime after New Year's and before Jan. 6.... but you might want to check with neighbors in your area to see if they decorate for Mardi Gras.... If so you're right in step for changing the lights to purple, green, and gold... If not maybe you could start a new tradition but limit the time you light the Mardi Gras lights to maybe an hour or two each night this year... and just for Fri., Sat.,Sun., Mon., and Tue. leading up to Ash Wednesday.... Next year maybe more of your neighbors would pick up the "new" tradition. How about a "finger food" Mardi Gras party for the neighbors.... ?
Whatever you decide have fun!
2007-12-25 04:16:03 · answer #2 · answered by singlegal 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems to be the custom for people to take them down around New Years time. However, I think that if you allow people to put them up on or before Thanksgiving, seems to be the norm - 1 month or more in advance, then they should be able to keep them up for 1 month or so afterwards. So you shouldn' thave to take them down untill the end of Jan. We already start selling Christmas decorations in August/September, So I guess that's when the season starts now. I know people complain..."but i can't sleep if it's not dark", but I guess the month to a month and haolf before Christmas are Ok?
Like I said though, typically around New Years is accepted.
2007-12-25 05:04:04 · answer #3 · answered by i_b_jeepin2002 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Any thing goes in NYC. You could keep them up all year round if you really wanted to. Heck if they can have a naked cowboy roaming the streets playing a guitar without getting arrested than you can put your lights up as long as you like. Merry Christmas by the way.
to really answer the question everything should go after the 3 kings day.
2007-12-25 04:33:49 · answer #4 · answered by sweet 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Between know and Three kings day
Most after news year, If they can not take them down because of snow or ice, just do not put the lights on
Merry Christmas
2007-12-25 04:08:59 · answer #5 · answered by Halo Mom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm English. Its unlucky for us to take down ornament till now the 5th of January. After that i do no longer gentle them up yet I do yet some white lighting fixtures fixtures on in places on the patio in get admission to through fact it seems so dark and depressing
2016-11-24 23:38:02 · answer #6 · answered by santella 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In Germany they clean up after Jan. 6.
2007-12-25 04:51:58 · answer #7 · answered by cat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We always took them down the 1st week of January. Any Christmas lights after January 1st is white trashy.
2007-12-25 04:11:23 · answer #8 · answered by Duff 1 · 0⤊ 4⤋