Who is a Xmas Traditionalist?
 

In other words, who intends to leave the decorations up until 6 January. Of those people who do, I suggest that they comprise 2 main categories:

1) A minority who believe in living by the rules.

2) A majority who will use any excuse to delay the evil moment of having to take the damn things down.

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How about the ones who have to go back to work so need to get them down sooner rather than later?

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I think most people believe in following the rules. They have no idea why these are the rules or who actually made them up but I reckon its just natural instinct to follow the rules when it comes to things like this.

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Mine are staying up all year! - Well the tree (plastic) is going to get a massive bin liner over it and all the decorations and put into the garage 1st thing tomorrow morning. Cards came down this evening and everything else will be down by tomorrow evening..Although I may keep my study xmas lights in the window!

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Is it not just the "12 days of christmas, my true love gave...."?

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I try to stick to a traditional Christmas as possible and the decorations stay up until the 6th but certainly not because we believe that bringing them down any sooner or later would bring any 'bad luck' or something silly like that.

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Ours are always removed before we go back to work & school - which this year will mean they come down on Sunday afternoon.

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I thought they just had to be down before the 12 days were up - or had to stay up until Easter.

Ours all came down today, the tree had dropped nearly all its needles anyway. :(

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Decorations? What decorations?!

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Rules? What rules? What is this about January 6?

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January 6th is "Twelfth Night" ie the 12th after Xmas and the end of the "end of year" festivities. It is traditionally considered unlucky to have decorations up after this time.

For more info see http://www.novareinna.com/festive/twelfth.html for example.

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Fascinating. Never heard of it before. Thanks for the link.

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You most probably have, but you've not made the connection:

"On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me..." etc.

You're welcome.

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ours will prolly come down this weekend, my nephew is really excited about having them up....

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Mine came down on the 28th. I actually dont like decorations in the house so only the tree goes up. Don't know why, i dont mind christmas that much, but i have never liked the whole decorations thing. especially the people that go over board. They know who they mean. :)