I've noticed several houses have taken theirs down already, how many of you leve them till twelth night - the 6th January (and incidently Mr spikey's birthday!)
My decorations consist of a piece of tinsel (with integrated battery-powered lights!) around my computer monitor, a pair of miniature Christmas trees (with fibre-optic lighting) on the shelf above the monitor and a small illuminated plastic snowman (with changing colours) next to the monitor. That's a total cost £3 from pound shops! They'll probably stay there until around New Year's Day.
I've taken some of my cards down when dusting. But I'll take the tree down on the 6th along with the wreath and garland around the staircase. Not much tradition left nowadays. Although noticed there are a lot of houses that have the 'icicle effect' hanging from their guttering all the year round.
We keep ours up until the very last minute on 6th and reluctantly take them down only because we have to! They cheer the house up, we love to see the twinkling lights on both trees (in lounge and hall) and round the arch between the lounge and dining room. We also have them on our small "mantelpiece" of the wall gas fire. We also have red berry lights outside in a bush and around the front door. Are we unusual to love Christmas lights?