@chrisaldrich Where I grew up the local wisdom said if it’s not down by January 6 your crops will fail.
Generally I wait until right after the 12th day of Christmas (aka Epiphany, aka 3 Kings Day, aka Armenian Christmas) which would have been the 6th or Eastern Orthodox Christmas, the 7th. Thus I would have been boxing it all up on January 8th, we just didn’t make it that far because of the Eaton Fire catastrophe. The sad part is that there’s not much of the town that isn’t burnt to the ground, so I’m not expecting anything in the way of crops this year… sigh My blessing was that there was a Christmas tree to be taken down at all.
@chrisaldrich Yes, it's Epiphany in the South of England too. Or at least it was when I was a child.
The local myth or folklore I heard back then was that the Green Man will visit and take the decorations down for you and that would be VERY BAD NEWS.
The Californian fires sounded terrible. I've seen bush fires, they were commonplace when I lived in Australia, but that kind of fire through a major urban area is something else.