Posted on 01/06/2023 11:58:57 PM PST by 6thavenue
ARE you leaving your Christmas decorations up to cheer yourself up this winter?
Christmas may have come and gone but some householders are choosing to keep their trees up.
Twelfth Night, which fell yesterday, is traditionally the time people take their tinsel, trees and other trinkets down with many believing it’s bad luck to keep them up.
However, English Heritage is appealing to the public to follow the traditions of their medieval ancestors and leave festive decorations up until Candlemas on February 2.
(Excerpt) Read more at bournemouthecho.co.uk ...
Feb 2 sounds good. Longer the better. I hate taking down our Christmas stuff.
Some of my neighbors leave their lights up on their houses all year and don’t take them down. The good thing is that they don’t turn them on. Except for some of the lights on their lawns which are solar and turn on at night all year long.
It's the only sniglet I remember.
We put them up after thanks and have it down by New Year’s Eve.
Considered it bad luck to leave it up before the start of new year.
Also a fire hazard. We use real trees cut off our farm and use them to fill gullies afterwards.
I like my Christmas wreath over the fireplace so its staying up thru Feb....
I love my Christmas history so my grandfather's nativity figurines are kept in my dining room in the hutch along with some old houses from the 1950's that my mom had....plus a few other things....it was a happy time of my life....now down two brothers and any memories for me are precious....
the Christmas season is traditionally 12 days ending on the feast of the Epiphany Jan 6 th so that is what I aim for....
Mine came down yesterday.
When I was still living up in Silicon Valley, my Indian neighbors would put up lights for Diwali in early November and just leave them up for Christmas too and take them down after New Years - very festive, and the kids loved it.
Mine stay up year around, I never take the tree down.
Leaving my little cheap lighted tree and colored string of lights up all year.
Shoot I’d still listen to 24 hour Christmas music on the radio if I could. Maybe a day or so every couple of weeks.
😜😜😜
Woohoo
Christmas decorations? Santy, grinch, reindeer, yuletide whichamicallits? Blowup frosties...
What a joke xmas has become.
Rolling my decorated tree back into a closet.
Whe I lived in Maine the wreaths stayed up until yellow.i hav maine wreaths in Florida sun and I like to leave up thru Valentine’s Day
My proposal:
Christmas Decorations still up on Valentines’ Day? - $500 fine
Christmas Decorations still up on Saint Patrick’s Day? - $5,00 fine and up to 1 year in jail
Christmas Decorations still up on Easter - $10,00 fine and up to 5 years in jail
Christmas Decorations still up on 4th of July - Life in prison
Inflatable lawn ornaments of any kind – Death Penalty
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I support celebrating Christmas until Candlemas/the presentation of Our Lord.
I think of the 12 days of Christmas as similar to the 8 day Octave of Easter.
Just as Easter is followed by Eastertide (that lasts for 50 days until Pentecost/ 50-count), it makes sense to keep Christmas until the Candlemas.
(And I abominate the modern habit of tearing down decorations and acting as if Christmas is over on Dec 26th. Yikes).
When it is over it is over. I take them down before New Year.
Most of outdoor lights were illumined last night (Epiphany) for the last time.
The blue lights...and there are a lot of them...will be illuminated Monday evening January 9 for Law Enforcement appreciation day per the suggestion of Concerns of Police Survivors (COPS).
Indoor decorations will come down slowly in the weeks ahead. Creches remain in place through February 2.
Now I have an excuse.
Thanks.
I’m not planning on it, but that doesn’t mean it won’t happen.
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