MuddleC, you can put your chrissy decorations up any time you want - mine will be staying up to at least July (well, that's how long they stayed up last year).

Some of my chrissy decorations at home & work are permanent features. I have various bears on my bear collection that are supposedly christmas decorations, and at work I have Flat Santa (a formerly inflatable Santa rescued from the builder's skip during the office renovations of 1993) and an old plastic Santa (1960's???) scrounged from unused office decorations a few years ago, and some of my office bears are christmas decorations, too.

Every Day is Christmas Day!!

sandra