Are you a Grinch?
Okay, it is December 1st and time to fess up. Do you have your tree and Christmas ornaments and lights up?
If not, you are a grinch! Get with it heathens!
If not, you are a grinch! Get with it heathens!
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DrWatson · 70-79, M
Before the holiday became so commercialized, the traditional Christmas season (as opposed to the Christmas shopping season) began on Christmas Eve. We are currently in the season which is traditionally known as Advent.
We put our tree up on Christmas Eve, and we keep it up after Christmas for the traditional Twelve Days of Christmas, ending on January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany (the coming of the Magi).
I don't let department stores tell me when the Christmas season happens. Theirs ends when the traditional one begins.
We put our tree up on Christmas Eve, and we keep it up after Christmas for the traditional Twelve Days of Christmas, ending on January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany (the coming of the Magi).
I don't let department stores tell me when the Christmas season happens. Theirs ends when the traditional one begins.
Ontheroad · M
@DrWatson maybe for the devout Christian but I have very early childhood memories of Christmas tree and outside decorations going up on thanksgiving weekend and coming down on New Years day. Dad did this because it is what his family did and that pretty much covers at least a century of tradition... long before the commercialization of Christmas.