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When do you take your holiday decorations down?


DramaQueenLucy

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I am just wondering when everyone takes their decorations down I told my Mother that I was taking mine down this weekend and she said that it is too soon and I should wait until the weekend after New Years. I want my house back and I am so sick of picking up ornaments that have fallen off the tree from that sling shot flying monkey hitting it...gggrrr

 

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We usually take ours down on the 1st or 2nd of Jan. However, this year, we'll be coming back from "Christmas" and New Years celebration (all in one) at my mom's and then washing clothes and heading to DH's family. I'll probably wait until we get back - plus looks like we might be moving and it might make a difference in how I decide to pack up -- I have lots of stuff and may be getting rid of some of it.
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We do ours on/after Jan. 6 Epiphany (Three Kings Day) :)

 

 

 

 

January 6, the last day of Christmas, comes with its own traditions, rituals and symbols. Carolers are going from house to house; in many homes the Christmas tree is taken down and in some areas is burnt in a big bonfire. For the children this is an especially joyous occasion because, associated with taking down the tree goes the "plündern" (raiding) of the tree. The sweets, chocolate ornaments wrapped in foil or cookies, which have replaced the sugar plums, are the raiders' rewards.

 

The history of Christmas, (the festival of the nativity of Jesus Christ,) is intertwined with that of the Epiphany. The commemoration of the Baptism (also called the Day of Lights, i.e. the Illumination of Jesus) was also known as the birthday of Jesus, because he was believed to have been born then of the Virgin or reborn in baptism. In some records Christmas and Epiphany were referred to as the first and second nativity; the second being Christ's manifestation to the world.

 

In the fourth century, December 25 was finally adopted by the Western Christian Church as the date of the Feast of Christ's birth. It is believed that this change in date gave rise to the tradition of the "12 Days of Christmas." While the Western Christian Church celebrates December 25th, the Eastern Christian Church to this day recognizes January 6 as the celebration of the nativity. January 6 was also kept as the physical birthday in Bethlehem. In the Teutonic west, Epiphany became the Festival of the Three Kings (i.e. the Magi), or simply Twelfth day.

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Jan. 6th. "Little Christmas". If I remember correctly, that is when the Wise Men reached baby Jesus in the stable...That's when we move the wise men onto the scene. They move a little closer everyday.

 

Several years ago, we decided to keep the manger up all year round. It gets moved to the dining room. Christmas time it is in the living room. We figured if we have the statues of the Saints, why not the stable...

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We get a real tree and this year for the first time ever, it died on us. It was all we could do to salvage it 4 days until Christmas :( So it came down first thing on the 26th. What a mess!! :eek: By the time we took all the ornaments off of it, it was nothing but a brown stick, no green needles to be found (unless you looked at my floor!!) We kept it watered, don't know what happened. Funny thing is, there were still some branches we had to cut off of it to fit in the house lying on our deck, and they were still alive and well :confused:

 

I think next year we'll put up the artificial one!! LOL ;)

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