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**Christmas trees shouldn’t be decorated until Christmas Eve because Advent itself should remain penitential, **
It was too difficult to stick with this when we had five small children. Our tree went up only one week before Christmas and remained up until the day after the Epiphany. Our children finally understood why we were the only ones with our tree still up after Christmas. Go figure!