[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: When the decorations go up (was: Being Scrooge-like)

[Kathryn Cawte]

> Christian wrote:
>
> <But it is not!  In the Anglo-American tradition, Christmas has 12
> days - in the Scandinavian tradition Christmas has 13 or 20 days,
> depending on regional traditions.>
>
 Saitaina
> Dang, in my family Christmas was done after dinner (usually before
desert).
> Tree was down the next day, present excitement over and we're getting
ready for
> the next holiday.
>
>
K

I'm English and we always went with the twelve days tradition - isn't that
when the wise men were supposed to have arrived? The tree was always taken
down on the 6th, in the evening (no later even when it would have been
convenient because it's bad luck). Now thought Christmas seems to have a
tendency to run from the beginning of the school holidays till everyone goes
back to school (shops and shopping centres starting in November
notwithstanding)

K