when should i take my decorations from christmas down?
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Depending on what you're celebrating it's either January 5 or January 6 - and the last day you should keep festive decorations up. A day sooner or later is considered unlucky and if decorations are not removed on Twelfth Night then according to tradition they should stay up all year.
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Catholic, Episcopal and Orthodox priests answer. Many churches don't take down their Christmas decorations until the Sunday after Epiphany, which is on Jan. 6. According to the traditional Christian calendar, tonight marks ''Twelfth Night,'' or the Eve of Epiphany, the end of the 12 days of Christmas.
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Straight after Halloween. For some, Christmas decorations go up as soon as Halloween ends on 31st October, and so Christmas lovers embrace 1st November as the start of the festive season and begin decorating their home at this time.
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In Poland the tradition is to take down the Christmas decorations on February 2nd or Matki Boskiej Gromnicznej or Candlemas. The Christmas spirit stays full on until January 6th. And the commercialization of Christmas doesn't start too early, either.
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This year, Disney Christmas decorations started coming down by Jan. 5, 2020, and were completely gone after the Disney Marathon Weekend, which took place through Jan. 12.
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Most people stick to the same date to take down their tree - January 5. The reason for this is that the Twelfth Night - the twelfth day after Christmas dictates the end of the festive season. It's widely believed to be bad luck to keep decorations up after this date.
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Taking down decorations on Twelfth Night (5 or 6 January) is a modern superstition. For many centuries they were kept up until Candlemas Eve, 1 February. Candlemas celebrates Mary and Joseph taking the baby Jesus to the Temple at Jerusalem and presenting him to the Lord.
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Most decorations come down the second week in January or are turned into Valentine decor. The streets like Michigan Ave and State Street are lit up through February. 3.
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Re: when do they take the christmas decorations down? The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree stays up through at least Jan 1 and is taken down shortly thereafter. Other decorations vary by location, but they will start coming down as early as Dec 26, while others will stay up through Orthodox Christmas (Jan 7).
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Some people believe that you may have bad luck in the New Year if you take your Christmas tree down after midnight on December 31st. If you are superstitious, you may want to take the tree down before midnight on New Year's Eve to avoid any bad luck in the next year.
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The last weekend of November is becoming increasingly popular as a date to put the Christmas tree up. Some families choose the 1st December or the first weekend in December while others wait to nearer the 25th December to decorate the tree.
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Christmas decorations are generally hung up on the 8th of December, the day of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. From this day on most Christmas markets in Rome are open and shops and houses illuminate in Christmassy splendor.
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Christmas decorations are typically put up in late November or early December, usually to coincide with the start of Advent.
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Although Christian groups reportedly disagree over which date is the correct one, tradition dictates that the Twelfth Night is the best time to take down your festive decorations — including your tree.
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Twelfth Night, on January 5, is widely considered to be the last day of the Christmas festivities (the eve of the Epiphany). And according to superstition, it's bad luck to leave your Christmas tree and decorations up after January 5.
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The date we put up a Christmas tree differs for each household and family, with some people putting trees up in November, while others push it to as close to Christmas Day as possible. However, most people stick to the same day to take their tree down – the 6th January.
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Traditionally, Christmas trees are taken down 12 days after Christmas – on January 5. But there is some dispute over the date as the Church of England says January 5 is the Twelfth Night while some people count the 12 days after Christmas beginning on Boxing Day meaning it would fall on January 6.