EHM The Blue Line

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bruins72 wrote:It's almost a month after Christmas. Do you still have your Christmas tree up?

Yes, not only do we have our Christmas tree up here at the house, but my parents also have theirs still up at their house as well. I'm willing to bet that we'll see the Hurricanes in the playoffs before both of the trees come down.

bruins72 wrote:It's almost a month after Christmas. Do you still have your Christmas tree up?

Yes, though it's already begun to shed much of its needles... we've already lost one bauble because of that, so I guess it's going to have to go. Only I don't have time to do that just now.

I generally like to keep my Christmas trees as long as possible. The tradition here says they can stay up to Feb 2, but this year's tree's proven to be a rather weak one.

Wow, Feb. 2? I thought we were odd keeping it past Jan. 7

And thanks for all the snow stories - I miss snow, lol

I agree, Mustardstew. Around here most people get rid of their trees by New Years Day or a week later at the most. We put our tree up shortly after Thanksgiving (end of November) and take it down New Years Day.

There's the difference, B72. In Poland we put up our trees shortly before Christmas, with lots of people waiting until Christmas Eve.

Ah, I see. I think our holiday season is affected by the commercialism here. You see Christmas things in the stores in November here. Once Christmas is over, everything switches over to pushing Valentine's Day stuff.

That commercial stuff is exactly the same here. Personally, I hate seeing Christmas trees in all the shops as soon as early November. Now it's slowly dying out, but I'm sure it'll soon be replaced by all those hearts and love-cards... And then it will dwindle a week after Feb 14 or so, and in turn be replaced by the Happy Easter eggs and bunnies and whatever. Scary, really.

Exactly! Every holiday has turned into a way for the stores to turn it into something to buy. I don't know about Poland but here in the US we've even got holidays that were made up by the greeting card companies. Mother's Day and Father's Day.

They probably exists all over the world, but it's each persons choice to make it materialistic or not. Though it's hard to withstand the commercialism and it's a much easier way out to buy someone a present and decorate, than actually put some effort in celebrating in a immaterialistic manner.