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[shoesnbags]

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@mormel20 wrote:

This is interesting.  I have always heard it was bad luck to keep the Christmas Tree up past New Year's Day.  Has anyone else ever heard the bad luck thing? 

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@mormel20 

The twelve days of Christmas begin on Dec. 25 and end on Jan. 5.  So traditionally it would still be "Christmas time" for 4 days past New Year's Day.

Growing up, our real tree was always purchased and decorated about 2 weeks before Christmas.  But I remember my mom saying that when she was growing up it was decorated on Christmas Eve.  That would have been the 1920s and early 1930s.

[SaveTheTurtles]

I always thought that was a Hollywood thing. Unless of course you someone who leaves there tree up til Valentine's Day. I always put it up around thanksgiving and down right after Christmas. 

[Trailrun23]

We have always put our tree up the day after Thanksgiving and taken it down before NewYears Eve. When I was a kid we always had a real tree, so it went up Dec 10 and came down the day after Christmas. In our climate, it was a real fire hazard and just a pile of needles if left up any longer.