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when does your Christmas tree come down?
I'm sitting here looking at our Christmas tree and trying to decide when to take it down this week. I usually like to let it sit there for a little while after Christmas - really, as long as it's down by New Year's, I'm happy.
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Re: when does your Christmas tree come down?
This! I am also Catholic and by tradition, we don't take them down until after the King's Day. We are hosting a holiday party with our close friends (it kept getting pushed!) on Jan 3rd so the tree is definitely not coming down before then :-).
Yay! I don't feel bad for wanting to keep the tree up for a bit. This is our first year getting a tree since it's our first year with a house.
DH said that for 3 weeks starting this Wed (12/30), next Wed (1/6) and the following Wed (1/13) we can leave it on the curb on trash day and the city will pick it up and recycle it.
So he goes... We can throw it out this week! And I was like, NOOOOOO! He's Jewish, they don't know how it's done. I feel like we bought the thing and decorated it and I love the lights... I want it up as long as we can!
I told him it stays up AT LEAST until NYE. So I think we'll leave it on the curb on 1/6. That seems long enough.
Oh, and to you Hawaii folk.... Our HUGE tree (pics on blog) is FAR from dying and it only cost $60!!!!! In Hawaii it would have been twice that! Wow!
Malia & Dave & Alexa
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Beautiful!
I wish we could get ours straight from a tree farm, but no such luck in the middle of the ocean.
We ended up getting our little 6-footer for just $19 from the military exchange. But there ended up being a tree shortage and a few days before Christmas, the wimpy 2-4 footers were going for OVER $100! I couldn't believe people were that desperate for trees... they were grabbed up instantly!
It's so interesting to me that so many people do this! I had never heard of this before! Then again, I have to admit that I also didn't know many Catholics until I moved to Australia (where I'd say it's the major religion), but even though most people here seem to be raised Catholic, I don't think I know any who still practice. Which is a long way of saying...interesting!!!
Catholism is definitely the dominate religion in New Orleans...which is kind of odd b/c pretty much everywhere else in the South, most people are Baptist or anything else but Catholic. I guess something else that sets us apart from the rest.
Me too - we're not Catholic, but the whole Twelfth Night marks the end of the festivities for my family too.
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We didn't put a tree up this year...J felt too overwhelmed with everything we've got to do to get ready for the baby. That said, we did decorate outside with lights and two small topiary trees.
When we do have a tree we usually put it up the day or two after Thanksgiving and it comes down on Janaury 7th, after Epiphany...again, part of my Catholic heritage.
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This is actually the first year of my "adulthood" that we've had a christmas tree (exciting event!) We're planning on keeping it up through the first week of January.
I saw a beautiful naked tree lying abandoned out on the curb in my neighborhood this morning and I felt a teeny bit outraged and hurt and upset on behalf of the poor tree.