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Subject: Re: OT Rant About Christians.
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On 9/15/2024 4:15 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Sep 2024 09:28:58 -0700, Paul S Person
> <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 6 Sep 2024 09:13:41 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper"
>> <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 22/08/2024 11.03, Paul S Person wrote:
>>>
>>>> IOW, it can be argued that it is not the /Christian's/ Christmas that
>>>> is commercialized. Which is why it is more commonly called "the
>>>> Holiday Season", and starts (at latest) the day after Thanksgiving and
>>>> extends to (at earliest) New Year's Day. That is to say, I don't think
>>>> it's been extended to the day after Halloween or Epiphany. Yet.
>>>
>>> The Christmas season runs to Epiphany.
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Days_of_Christmas.
>>
>> The religious one (and its cultural attachments) does, to be sure.
>> That is why each year I listen to one movement of JS Bach's Christmas
>> Oratorio on as close to the proper day as possible, and then take down
>> my decorations (which went up on Christmas eve).
> 
> In our family we usually got our tree up about a week before (though
> last year only on Christmas Eve) but the twelveth day is when we were
> taught the tree was SUPPOSED to come down. Our couch is right next to
> the tree's normal location so we didn't but decorations on one side of
> the tree to prevent the cat knocking the ornaments down...since kitty
> normally sits on that arm of the chair the rest of the year.

Back when we had little kids, we'd get an 8+ foot real tree.
When the kids got older, we switched to an 8 foot artificial, and
now they're grown and out of the house, cut down to a 3 foot
artificial on a table.

Last Christmas, my younger daughter came home and insisted
on re-erecting the 8 footer. Of course, she did not take
responsibility for putting the decoration away.

pt