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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 12:19:20 +1000
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- Subject: Re: An observation
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- >On Sat, 26 Dec 1992, Judith E. Schrier wrote:
- >
- >> But there are people who feel that Epiphany is the right day to
- >> take down the tree (Anne next door, f'rinstance). They don't put
- >> them up until Xmas eve.
- >
- >I've always had the impression that was more of a Yankee thing. Like
- >Natalie, I have always known that to leave the tree up after Jan 1 is to
- >tempt fate. Besides, you have to make time for all those black-eyed peas
- >that we have to eat on the 1st. ;-)
- >
- >-abh
-
- The tradition in my family as a child, enforced by an extremely superstitious
- mother, was for the tree to be put up on Christmas Eve and taken down New
- Years Day. I have always suspected that this had more to do with housekeeping
- than with any superstition though..... a cut, live tree doesn't last more than
- a week in our Christmas temperatures before it starts making a terrible mess
- of the lounge-room. We've been using artificial trees for the last 10 years,
- except for the year we bought a small Norfolk Pine growing in a tub and
- transplanted it into the garden after Christmas was over. The first task on
- New Years Day is still to undecorate the tree and store it away though.
-
- Carolyn
-