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All-In [47657]
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Anyone else still have Christmas tree up?
Jan 4, 2022, 9:47 AM
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Just me?
Wife says she always leaves it up until January 6th. She was raised Catholic and that is the day of Epiphany of the Lord. I think she is just trying to put off dealing with it. Anyone else do this or heard of this?
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Oculus Spirit [81628]
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Still up. But also got home 1/2 and haven't taken the time
Jan 4, 2022, 9:49 AM
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to take it down. It stayed up until February last year.
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Not this year but we used to leave ours up until around the
Jan 4, 2022, 9:50 AM
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6th. But we don't set it up until 2nd or 3rd week in December.
I think the 6th is the 12th day of Christmas traditionally.
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All-In [38514]
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Still? Never put it up.***
Jan 4, 2022, 9:51 AM
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Oculus Spirit [85088]
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Currently lying on it's side in edge of woods
Jan 4, 2022, 9:53 AM
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To be delivered to the lake in the next week or 2
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Oculus Spirit [80978]
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The one here still is.
Jan 4, 2022, 9:55 AM
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I didn't put it up, I'm not taking it down.
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CU Medallion [54758]
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we still have ours up, but (mostly) because we were out of
Jan 4, 2022, 9:57 AM
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town til sunday night, and that's weekend work
My mom mentioned Jan 6th / epiphany the other day, which is the first i've heard of it....but she's not catholic, so it's probably procrastination on her end
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All-In [47657]
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I was raised Methodist. We celebrate Epiphany as well,
Jan 4, 2022, 10:00 AM
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but my family never tied that to ending Christmas celebration and taking decorations down. I get it, except that I don't.
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CU Medallion [55659]
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12. Days. Of. Christmas. But in practicality, it stays up
Jan 4, 2022, 10:00 AM
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until this weekend, even though the 12 days are over on Thursday.
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CU Medallion [55659]
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Ash Wednesday is not until March 2 this year. Enjoy your
Jan 4, 2022, 10:05 AM
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feasting until then.
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Re: Oh yeah. Good Catholic family
Jan 4, 2022, 10:06 AM
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I’ll bet she still goes to a Latin Mass.
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All-In [47657]
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Nah, her first husband was a dumbasss redneck.
Jan 4, 2022, 10:14 AM
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She had to become Southern Baptist.
That is not an attack on Southern Baptists, that is an attack on dumbasss rednecks.
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Lot o points [155633]
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yes......we went the grinch route and bought a fake one a
Jan 4, 2022, 10:10 AM
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few years ago, and it's glorious. One additional perk is that you can leave it up until the spirit moves you to put it back in the basement.
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Heisman Winner [137789]
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Yes. Always leave your tree up until Insurrection Day.***
Jan 4, 2022, 10:10 AM
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Lot o points [155633]
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PEE AND ARRGH BORED YOU MOMO***
Jan 4, 2022, 10:14 AM
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Heisman Winner [137789]
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I can't post a reply on a different board.
Jan 4, 2022, 10:15 AM
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Take it up with Cramp.
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Lot o points [155633]
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That would be sort of genius.***
Jan 4, 2022, 10:15 AM
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TIL 12 days of Christmas happen AFTER Christmas, not before
Jan 4, 2022, 10:15 AM
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dang, 18 years of Sunday School, absolutely worthless. I was never told this.
So why do we listen to Christmas music BEFORE Christmas, and not after?
This is all very, very confusing.
For record, my tree is still up, because it is a potted live tree. It will be my Christmas tree again next Christmas. My decorations came off it the day after though, how I was raised. My mom would rather burn her house down than have Christmas decorations still up on New Years. She deemed that an irredeemable new year's omen of bad luck.
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CU Medallion [55659]
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You, like most Americans, have confused the secular holiday
Jan 4, 2022, 10:41 AM
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with the religious one.
It's hard to escape when the radio starts playing Christmas music before Thanksgiving.
But at a liturgical church, the Christmas music begins at Advent. Usually anticipatory songs like "O Come Emmanuel" then ramps up to the songs we think of all the way through to Epiphany.
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I guess Southern Baptists don't make too much of the 12 days
Jan 4, 2022, 11:01 AM
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Other than the grating "Partridge in a Pear Tree" song, I don't recall anybody ever making a big deal of it.
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CU Medallion [60205]
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growing up intertwined amongst the Gullah
Jan 4, 2022, 11:20 AM
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people in the SC Lowcountry I'm not sure what is what with the traditions and superstitions my family adopted and maintained, whether from Gullah culture, Scots-Irish culture, Native American culture, or maybe something else. When your family has been in one spot for literally 250 years, core beliefs run deep. Hard to distinguish exactly how/where they developed along the way. My mom's family especially had all kinds of superstitions and rigid beliefs they held strong.
I know they are sometimes very different from other places I have lived, and range both good and bad.
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Mine is still up... 12 days of Christmas and all.
Jan 4, 2022, 11:08 AM
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But Ephiphany was this past Sunday... so I guess we're all-clear to take it down. It blocks the view of the playroom TV from the kitchen...
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