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6 – Take Down the Christmas Tree Day
If you celebrate Christmas, when do you put up your tree and when do you take it down?
We don't really do Christmas, but years ago I bought an artificial tree because I wanted to make some Dutch visitors who didn't have anywhere to go feel at home for that day. At the time I just hung some wooden apples on it, but the next year, because we already had the tree, bought some nice globes for it. A couple of them resembled planets so I put spaceships in there too. This is it back in 2005: same tree, mostly the same decorations - and even the same terracotta vase beside it, weirdly enough, despite it being a different house.
Anyway, to answer the question, I heard a while back that you get a month if you put it up on 6 December, St Nicolas's day, and take it down on 6 January after the 12 days of Christmas, so that's what I try to do. Does anyone celebrate for 12 days any more?
I'm always a bit sad to take it down, as I did today, because it marks almost the end of the Christmas/New Year holiday, and besides I like the seeing the pohutukawa LED lights flickering on it.
BTW our cats totally ignore it.
We don't really do Christmas, but years ago I bought an artificial tree because I wanted to make some Dutch visitors who didn't have anywhere to go feel at home for that day. At the time I just hung some wooden apples on it, but the next year, because we already had the tree, bought some nice globes for it. A couple of them resembled planets so I put spaceships in there too. This is it back in 2005: same tree, mostly the same decorations - and even the same terracotta vase beside it, weirdly enough, despite it being a different house.
Anyway, to answer the question, I heard a while back that you get a month if you put it up on 6 December, St Nicolas's day, and take it down on 6 January after the 12 days of Christmas, so that's what I try to do. Does anyone celebrate for 12 days any more?
I'm always a bit sad to take it down, as I did today, because it marks almost the end of the Christmas/New Year holiday, and besides I like the seeing the pohutukawa LED lights flickering on it.
BTW our cats totally ignore it.
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I like your relaxed attitude! There's a lot of stress around holidays*, I've noticed, but we just take it easy and quietly.
* A friend in the US said she dreaded so much having to decorate, bake, cook, host huge dinners etc, all falling to her, that this year she said enough and did the minimum and had a potluck dinner. She posted a happy family photo, and I'm sure they appreciated the lack of stress too.