When the decorations go up (was: Being Scrooge-like)

[melclaros]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Saitaina" <saitaina at w...> 
wrote:
> 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 replied:
> 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.
> 




We have a "game" in my family. On the way home on Christmas night we 
take note of the discarded Christmas trees on the side of the road 
waiting for trash pick up (yup, CHRISTMAS NIGHT). They are ALWAYS 
outside the same houses we noted while playing our Thanksgiving night 
game, "Who's decorating too damned early?". The rest of the trees 
from those houses are generally out by the end of the 26th. 
Yup, if my tree went up in November, I'd hurl it out on the street as 
soon as the radio stations stopped playing carols too. (Normally 
noon, 12/25.) 
Our tree (and the rest) never goes up prior to Dec. 10 and if I can 
push it back further I do. We used to keep it up until 1/6 and still 
do depending on how that coincides with the school holidays, but it 
always stays up through New Year's day.