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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 06, 2020, 01:38:52 pm ---I'm keeping mine up for another week. I get it kind of late (usually one to two weeks before Christmas) then can't bear to get rid of it.
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I know people who still follow the custom of not putting their tree up until Christmas Eve.
(Like the Ricardos and the Mertzes in the I Love Lucy Christmas special. ;D )
I don't know when they take down their tree.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 06, 2020, 02:50:38 pm ---I know people who still follow the custom of not putting their tree up until Christmas Eve.
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Are they hip Philadelphians or people from your hometown who still follow some of the ways of the Old Country?
My ex-mother-in-law grew up in the Greek Orthodox church, where they celebrate Christmas 12 days after everyone else. She did that throughout her youth, though later became Lutheran like (almost) everybody else in Minnesota. Anyway, the great thing about it is they could buy their tree, ornaments and all other Christmas things after the holiday at a discount price.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 06, 2020, 11:57:04 pm ---Are they hip Philadelphians or people from your hometown who still follow some of the ways of the Old Country?
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Neither, really. My Anglophile (and Episcopalian) undergraduate adviser and his family put up their tree on Christmas Eve and took it down on Epiphany. Our (Episcopal) rector has no decorations (except an Advent wreath) in the church until Christmas Eve, whereas in my home Lutheran church (probably for practical reasons), the church is decorated for Christmas by the last Sunday in Advent.
I recently learned that two very close friends, a couple, both of whom were raised in Roman Catholic homes but neither of whom is a "practicing Catholic," put up their tree on Christmas Eve. I don't know when they take it down.
CellarDweller:
Putting up a Christmas tree on Christmas Eve would never fly at our house. Mom loved it as much as the kids did, and she puts it up the day after Thanksgiving, and keeps it up usually until mid-January.
Jeff Wrangler:
I've always felt a Christmas tree looks a little sad December 26. :(
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