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Is your Christmas tree still up?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Dick Whitman, Jan 13, 2018.

  1. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Our upstairs tree we took down last weekend. But the basement one is still up, I just noticed. I have to stare at it the whole time I’m watching football tonight. I am not allowed to touch things, due to the flu.
     
  2. lakefront

    lakefront Well-Known Member

    Saw 2 or 3 the other night, full blown outside lights and tree still on. I read a story by someone explaining that they just love the season and want to extend it a little further. I know someone else who has not gotten around to it. Mine usually comes down the week after new years and every year I overlook some christmassy thing. Tablecloth this time.
    I have never understood the people who get one a few days before or even Christmas eve, it may be some tradition that I am unfamiliar with.
     
  3. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    My wife is the hold-onto-Christmas type. She’s quite sentimental.
     
  4. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    That’s kind of the old school (say, pre-WWII) way. Christmas as a religious season doesn’t technically begin until Christmas proper (Advent technically lasts until sundown on Christmas Eve), but it lasts until Epiphany. The practice of having a Christmas tree up weeks prior is relatively new.
     
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  5. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Jan. 6th you're still totally cool. I figure the weekend after New Years. You can still have holiday stuff, but you need to dump the tree and scale back. When I was a kid I considered "the holidays" lasting from Thanksgiving to the Super Bowl.
     
  6. ChrisLong

    ChrisLong Well-Known Member

    I liked ours to be up through my birthday — Jan. 5 — and explained it to be for the 12 Days of Christmas. But I could never find out precisely if the 12th day was Jan. 5 or 6.
    Tree is down but house decoration outside are still there. I don’t turn them on but the family across the street still has their lights going. They were also the first on our street to put them up.
     
  7. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    My wife took ours down and all the decoration probably two or three days before New Year. In previous years, it has come down the day after Christmas, which is fine with me because I don't give a shit about having a Christmas tree. When I was single and lived alone, I never had a tree -- although I might have hung one ornament on my jade tree.
     
  8. Flip Wilson

    Flip Wilson Well-Known Member

    House down the street still has full-on display up and lit every night. They're the super-conservative, home-school-the-five-kids family, though. Not sure if that plays into it or not.
     
  9. QYFW

    QYFW Well-Known Member

    Yes -- and it will be until someone else takes it down.
     
  10. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Trees came down two days after New Year's, because the town picks them up on that week and the next week's garbage pick up day. Outdoor lights came down at same time. Good thing, too, or the nor'easter's snow would mean I couldn't take them down until Easter.
     
  11. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

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  12. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    So, up until next Christmas then?
     
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