When Should You Take Down Your Wreath After Holidays?

Other parts of the country think we New Englanders are crazy, but we are not.  We are just pragmatic, logical and sensible.

For instance, take the dilemma of when to take down your holiday wreath.  If it's a live wreath and on the inside of the house, still making your home smell like a forest, leave it up for as long as you can.

However, the minute the needles start to fall off, making a mess in your living area, get it out of the house. Who wants more things to clean up off the floor?

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

One year we were away on a family vacation, and my neighbor called me in a panic. She said the local tv station was in front of my house covering a story and my wreath was still up!

Oh the horrors of having a mostly greenish but partially brown wreath still attached to my house in February.

Simply Too Busy

In my defense, like most people, we simply didn't have time to take it down, between work, and the kids, we never had a moment to even think about a wreath outside.  Besides the tree inside was gone, so what's to worry about?

Then the news crews showed up on our street.

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In the New England blog "for the love of a house", you have to laugh when you read about Christmas wreaths still being up at the end of January.   If it's a snowy winter, then it takes longer to get to the wreath on the barn, or the garage, or on the chimney.

When you see the wreaths up in March and April, it's just hysterical because they are seriously brown and so sad.  Why do New Englanders keep them up?  There are all kinds of pragmatic and logical reasons, so don't ask.

However, most New Englanders prefer to get wreaths off the fence, house, etc., by the end of January.  If you see them around after that, just go with it.