I decorate my home with 10,000 Christmas decorations - which take two weeks to put up and take down
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Britain's most festive man decorates has revealed how he decorates his home with more than 10,000 decorations - which take two weeks to put up and take down. Geoff Stonebanks, 71, spends a week every Christmas adorning his home in Seaford, East Sussex, with 40 crates worth of decorations.
![[He then has to devote another seven days in the first week of January to taking it all down and storing it away - ready for next December]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/11/93271235-14205417-image-a-36_1734522721881.jpg)
He then has to devote another seven days in the first week of January to taking it all down and storing it away - ready for next December. Geoff estimates that he owns around 2,500 individual baubles - but has lost count of the number of other festive trinkets he keeps under his roof.
![[For Geoff, what is most special about his collection is the memories each piece holds]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/11/93271233-14205417-image-a-37_1734522728184.jpg)
His collection was previously estimated at around 10,000. Geoff's haul has been amassed over several decades and includes decorations he has bought on various holidays as well as ones handed down through his family. Some of his decorations date back to the 1930s and one of his trees was bought from the beloved but now defunct high street store Woolworths.
![[Some of his decorations have been passed down to him since his childhood, (left) while others are new to the collection (right)]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/11/93271237-14205417-Some_of_his_decorations_have_been_passed_down_to_him_since_his_c-m-52_1734523084463.jpg)
In past Decembers, he has had no less than 40 trees in his home - varying in size from seven feet to 18 inches. He has seven this year. Geoff Stonebanks, 71, from Seaford, East Sussex, decorates his home with 10,000 decorations - which take two weeks to put up and take down.
![[Some of his decorations date back to the 1930s and one of his trees was bought from the beloved but now defunct high street store Woolworths]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/11/93271247-14205417-image-a-38_1734522737920.jpg)
Geoff has been obsessed with Christmas ever since he was a child and was tasked with decorating his parents' pub for the festive season. When he left home, he started gathering his own decorations - and when his parents retired he inherited the ones they had gathered over the years.
![[Geoff estimates that he owns around 2,500 individual baubles - but has lost count of the number of other festive trinkets he keeps under his roof]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/11/93271245-14205417-image-a-39_1734522742295.jpg)
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