When does Xmas start in you`re house?
 

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I was always under the impression it was 12 days before, but other half did it yesterday! Not my department, if you missed her, she was the one with a car full of tree and decorations, because of course last years aren't good enough! May as well have real tree, she changes it every year anyway.

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It's just started, thats why I'm on here :D
No doubt I'll be called upon very soon for the bits that need the step ladder - hmm, might buy her some stilts for Xmas, I'll get out of it next year then :D

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about 24 hrs i would say.:D

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SO LONG??? lol

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Might take a bit longer than expected, Max is running off with everything she puts down, gonna be fun when the tree goes up :D

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My OH says 1st,but my mum always had the xmas decs up 12 days before n 12 days after the 25th so thats we will do.With having a toddler i dont want them for too long-i wonder if ANYTHING will survive to be used next year :confused:

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I'm with Cashman on this 24 hours max.

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It's my daughters birthday on the 10th, so we tended to do the decorations the weekend after this so as not to detract from her day.

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yesterday:D:Banane25::Banane25::Banane25::Banane25 ::Banane25::Banane25::Banane25:as we went on the christmas train in howarth:D:D:D:D just getting the decorations out now:Banane25:well supposed to be:D:Banane25::Banane25::Banane25:

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well i put my tree up yesterday, and the bloody thing took 4 hours to put together (was going to say erect but i'd only get sarcastic comments from Neil) i have to put my tree up branch by branch and seen as its over 6ft tall it took ages, it looks gorgeous though :D so my christmas starts on the 1st of December, i've also finished buying all the christmas pressies so i'm all done now :D

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I havent wrote a xmas card yet,,,better get my skates on...

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We have no pressies yet, and no personal cards written, almost done with the 2000+ cards for customers though!

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Christmas Eve........ that is plenty soon enough.

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Why is the song called the 12 days of christmas :confused: it should be the 24 or 36 days of christmas
when we where young
they allways put ours up 12 days before and taken them down on the 6th jan 12 days after and so did we when the kids where at home but now they have left and there is only Anne and me i will leave it to Anne to say when they are put up and taken down:D





and find somewhere to hide while she does them.......:D

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Mick, do you mean to say you don't get the job of untangling the lights and checking them......?

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not if i can help it:D

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We put ours up yesterday. Customs seem to vary from country to country. I pinched this from Wiki -

Traditionally, Christmas trees were not brought in and decorated until Christmas Eve, and then removed the day after twelfth night (i.e., 6 January); to have a tree up before or after these dates was even considered bad luck. Modern commercialisation of Christmas has resulted in trees being put up much earlier; in shops often as early as late October (in the UK, Selfridge's Christmas department is up by early September, complete with Christmas trees). A common tradition in U.S. homes is to put the tree up right after Thanksgiving (the fourth Thursday in November) and to take it down right after the New Year. Some households in the U.S. do not put up the tree until the second week of December, and leave it up until the 6th of January (Epiphany). In Germany, traditionally the tree is put up 24th of December and taken down 7th of January, though many start one or two weeks earlier and in Roman-Catholic areas the tree may be kept until late January. In Australia, the Christmas tree is usually put up on the 1st of December, which occurs about a week before the school summer holidays; except for South Australia, where most people put up their tree after the Adelaide Credit Union Christmas Pageant, which is in early November. Some traditions suggest that Christmas trees may be kept up until no later than the 2nd of February, the feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple (Candlemas), when the Christmas season effectively closes.Superstitions warn of negative consequences if Christmas greenery is not removed by Candlemas Eve.

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I celebrate YULE
Yule Origins, Lore, Legends, and Customs
Quote-"Yule is actually a span of thirteen days, usually counted from the night before the solstice (19 or 20 December, as it varies from year to year ), to the thirteenth night, (usually January 6 called "Twelfth Night" later by Christians). Bede called Yule eve "Mother Night", and it is thought this night was devoted to honouring the Idises (or Disir, female ancestral spirits) the family protectors. The Solstice itself, either 20, 21 or 22 December, is the most important of the days, when the dead and other beings of the dark fare most freely, Winter arrives, and humans are closest to the spirit worlds."

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Christmas starts on 24 December and lasts until Epiphany, 6 January, 12 days. The present season is Advent which, like Lent, was a time of fasting in the old Christian church.

I will, no doubt, be persuaded to put the tree up the week before Christmas but it will come down on 2 January. That's quite long enough. ;)

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I tend to put everything up 2nd weekend before christmas so this year it will be around the 15th and they are taken down by the 6th Jan. I would hate them to be up longer than that as I find them dust collectors!!!

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Usually the 1st but looking more like next weekend been too busy & OH hasnt got them all down from loft yet:D

Usually get taken down before the 4th as my birthday & its always anti climax & prefer the bare walls LOL:D

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in our house we start around or on the 12 December: Tree comes down and the rest on New Years Day....

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well i always start by putting the tree up on the 1st of december & add to it as the week goes on, the outside decorations will go up on a fine day this coming week, have just treated ourselves ( me & our susan) to a reindeer & sledge with lights for outside this year ;)

i will take them down on the epiphany 6th jan: i just love them & my granchildrens faces when they see them .

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i must admit i think xmas has started far too early in blackburn but as for me i started my xmas yesterday

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It usually starts the 2nd weekend before Christmas, but this year can't get any enthusiasm (sp). So haven't got a clue when it will start.

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It's the same here although I am being pestered today from my husband and children to put the tree up. I shall not give in to pressure. :D

Some people round here have got all the outside gubbins flashing away already.

The 12th or so is quite soon enough for me and then I pack it all away on New Year's day.

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Im putting mine up in couple of weeks, just so my son can admire my work of art lol, he is too young to undestand yet but he loves the lights

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Round here there are trees going up every day, once the first one is up ,they breed like rabbits,,:)

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I put up my tree on my birthday, Dec 1 and try to cram two parties into one. It's a hoot.

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already started on the first

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god im not ready to trim up yet......!!!

got to get all the prezzies first then ill trim up;)..probably next weekend, then i wont get fed up with looking at them!

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Well, the tree is up ... but the decorating part has to be re-done ... what seemed very creative at the party, now seems like insane surrealism.

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Should do it while you are sober:p:p:p

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Then it would never get done:D

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Ah well an excuse for another party me thinks;)

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Who the hell needs an excuse. Canada is party central, esp. in winter. I spent the day digging my car out and shovelling my driveway. :( Now if that is not a good excuse for a party, I don't know what is. I have a forty pounder of rum, lots of eggnog, and gallons of good Polish beeer whose name I can't even pronounce sober.:beer58:

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Oh, and the bong. Did I mention that I got stuck in the sixties:rolleyes:

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Now you have lost me:confused:

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Isn't a bong some kind of a pipe used to smoke cannabis? :confused:

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Yup ... and there is a store in Kingston, Smoker's Haven, where the nice Korean gentleman who owns it will sell you one with more displacement than a '69 Charger. Still stuck in the 60s:D

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my Christmas starts on the morning of the 24th and ends on the evening of the 26th like it should , Public displays of Christmas lights and a nativity creche a couple of weeks before and a week after I can live with , but it's sodding nonsense when stores have displays up in October/November ,
yep, and its either Merry Christmas or Feliz Navidad in my house , no Happy Holiday bullcrap.

have to admit because I have 'european' grandchildren I do follow the St Nicholas traditions on December 6th Saint Nicholas ::: Around the World

:D :D