seanmlow Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 Never been sure when it is! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2273-when-do-we-take-our-christmas-trees-down/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siduhe Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 I don't think it's a hard and fast rule but I was always taught that Christmas decorations were taken down on Twelfth Night (which is 6th Jan in Western Europe). It's the end of the 12 days of Christmas (the Epiphany) and you get to drink wassail punch whilst so doing (which tends to relieve the boredom).Alternatively when your Christmas tree starts to go brown... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2273-when-do-we-take-our-christmas-trees-down/#findComment-65439 Share on other sites More sharing options...
EDOldie Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 This sunday or surely you will burn in hell for eternity! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2273-when-do-we-take-our-christmas-trees-down/#findComment-65443 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonM Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 12th Night is 5th January not 6th!SimonM (pedants'r'us) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2273-when-do-we-take-our-christmas-trees-down/#findComment-65451 Share on other sites More sharing options...
EDOldie Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 OMG looks like I won't need central heating in the afterlife then. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2273-when-do-we-take-our-christmas-trees-down/#findComment-65460 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peckhamgatecrasher Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 Wassail on the fifth, remove tree on sixth - helps with readjusting head trying not to get bitten by the damn thing. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2273-when-do-we-take-our-christmas-trees-down/#findComment-65497 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siduhe Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 SimonM Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> 12th Night is 5th January not 6th!> > SimonM (pedants'r'us)Quite right (and hardly pedantry :)))- I remembered there was some confusion about precisely when it is - thought it was between 6/7 Jan - turns out it is between 5/6 Jan. So we now mark Twelfth Night from sunset on 5 Jan, and consider Twelfth Day is 6th Jan - unless you're Austrian, Maltese or Dutch by the looks of it, when you mark it on 6 Jan.Interestingly, it looks like we Brits used to celebrate it on Jan 6th as well, but now don't...http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/jan5.html#whyjan5 Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2273-when-do-we-take-our-christmas-trees-down/#findComment-65546 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wee quinnie Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Whenever you feel like it? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2273-when-do-we-take-our-christmas-trees-down/#findComment-66301 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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