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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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thought they were supposed to stay up untill the 12th
The 12 Days of Christmas start on Christmas Day and last until the evening of the 5th January - also known as Twelfth Night. The 12 Days have been celebrated in Europe since before the middle ages and were a time of celebration.
The 12 Days each traditionally celebrate a feast day for a saint and/or have different celebrations:
Day 1 (25th December): Christmas Day - celebrating the Birth of Jesus
Day 2 (26th December also known as Boxing Day): St Stephen’s Day. He was the first Christian martyr (someone who dies for their faith). It's also the day when the Christmas Carol 'Good King Wenceslas' takes place.
Day 3 (27th December): St John the Apostle (One of Jesus's Disciples and friends)
Day 4 (28th December): The Feast of the Holy Innocents - when people remember the baby boys which King Herod killed when he was trying to find and kill the Baby Jesus.
Day 5 (29th December): St Thomas Becket. He was Archbishop of Canterbury in the 12th century and was murdered on 29th December 1170 for challenging the King’s authority over the Church.
Day 6 (30th December): St Egwin of Worcester.
Day 7 (31st December): New Year's Eve (known as Hogmanay in Scotland). Pope Sylvester I is traditionally celebrated on this day. He was one of the earliest popes (in the 4th Century). In many central and eastern European countries (including Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland and Slovenia) New Year's Eve is still sometimes called 'Silvester'. In the UK, New Year's Eve was a traditional day for ‘games’ and sporting competitions. Archery was a very popular sport and during the middle ages it was the law that it had to be practised by all men between ages 17-60 on Sunday after Church! This was so the King had lots of very good archers ready in case he need to go to war!
Day 8 (1st January): 1st January - Mary, the Mother of Jesus
Day 9 (2nd January): St. Basil the Great and St. Gregory Nazianzen, two important 4th century Christians.
Day 10 (3rd January): Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus. This remembers when Jesus was officially 'named' in the Jewish Temple. It's celebrated by different churches on a wide number of different dates!
Day 11 (4th January): St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American saint, who lived in the 18th and 19th centuries. In the past it also celebrated the feast of Saint Simon Stylites (who lives on a small platform on the top of a pillar for 37 years!).
Day 12 (5th January also known as Epiphany Eve): St. John Neumann who was the first Bishop in American. He lived in the 19th century. |
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"You could roll it into the start of Greek Orthodox Christmas on Sunday.  "
The Greek Orthodox Church in Greece and Cyprus adopted the Gregorian Calendar in 1923 apparently.
Had to look that up as I'm technically Greek orthodox and never heard of a Jan christmas..it's not really done any more by the Greeks |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I just ate the last of the Quality street 
Yeah, right! 
Ok. There's a couple of strawberry creams left. I'm not that desperate yet."
I've still got a full tin and of Roses as well.  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Wait, when do I have to take the bastard thing down? I'm doing it tomorrow...if I can get in the loft.
How do you get loft ladders down? I need a tall person. Wahhhh"
Stop wailing, I'm on my way!  |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"You could roll it into the start of Greek Orthodox Christmas on Sunday.
The Greek Orthodox Church in Greece and Cyprus adopted the Gregorian Calendar in 1923 apparently.
Had to look that up as I'm technically Greek orthodox and never heard of a Jan christmas..it's not really done any more by the Greeks"
I can't post the link to explain this one. The Greeks don't really do it any more but Orthodox Christians do and I was being lazy using the Greek Orthodox example, which only changed about 100 years ago.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"You could roll it into the start of Greek Orthodox Christmas on Sunday.
The Greek Orthodox Church in Greece and Cyprus adopted the Gregorian Calendar in 1923 apparently.
Had to look that up as I'm technically Greek orthodox and never heard of a Jan christmas..it's not really done any more by the Greeks
I can't post the link to explain this one. The Greeks don't really do it any more but Orthodox Christians do and I was being lazy using the Greek Orthodox example, which only changed about 100 years ago.
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Ahhh ok  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"We packed everything away on the 30th, earliest we've ever done it. It felt bloody good to. Fucking tree was getting on my nerves!!! "
Bet you put it up too soon, that's why. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Having spent all of xmas being ill I didn't take much notice of my decs so ive decided to keep them up a bit longer so I can enjoy them. All that 'bad luck' malarkey doesn't frighten me. No sireee!!! |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"Having spent all of xmas being ill I didn't take much notice of my decs so ive decided to keep them up a bit longer so I can enjoy them. All that 'bad luck' malarkey doesn't frighten me. No sireee!!!"
You've got until Friday night before the superstitions start in on you.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Having spent all of xmas being ill I didn't take much notice of my decs so ive decided to keep them up a bit longer so I can enjoy them. All that 'bad luck' malarkey doesn't frighten me. No sireee!!!
You've got until Friday night before the superstitions start in on you.
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Pffft, they don't scare me *crosses fingers* |
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First time in 16 years useing not the same tree, and the first time ever the smallest christmas tree, a few dec,s a bit of tinsel, and christmas cards, I think I,ll make this the norm now, easy to put up and take away, just looks very bare as it normally does at this time afterwards.  |
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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago
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"We packed everything away on the 30th, earliest we've ever done it. It felt bloody good to. Fucking tree was getting on my nerves!!!
Bet you put it up too soon, that's why. "
Not really a week before. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I just ate the last of the Quality street
Yeah, right!
Ok. There's a couple of strawberry creams left. I'm not that desperate yet."
Those are my favourite ones. They go first in my tin |
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Tree and decorations that is. Have to wait till 12th night 
