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When does Christmas begin and end?

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    #92
    Clonmel1000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭Clonmel1000


    Peatys wrote: »
    Our house it begins weekend after Halloween, ends day after Stephens day.

    Then new years begins

    So you celebrate Christmas when it’s not Christmas and don’t when it is and you claim to love Christmas?


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    #93
    Loughc
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    Caranica wrote: »
    Nooooooooooooooooo :( Nothing down before the 7th!

    Fact.


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    #94
    BuboBubo
    Registered Users Posts: 927 ✭✭✭BuboBubo


    It begins on 4th September every year. Once the sprogs return to school, Halloween is touched upon briefly, then the gouging begins. The adverts on TV up the ante from the beginning of November.

    The ending varies from person to person. I believe it ends to coincide with the New Year (new me) bollexe, where the quality street gets replaced with Slimming World bars made from chipboard and the tears of obese broke people.

    I actually love Christmas btw, time off work - what's not to love!


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    #95
    Mutant z
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    I notice Christmas songs usually stop playing about the 27th or 28th of December yes technically it goes up to the 6th of January but the festive celebrations are already well passed by that stage so late December is generally what can be considered the end point.


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    #96
    dudara
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    Jan 6th is the end. We’re only just getting started.

    I love the peace and quiet that comes after the rush in the run up to Christmas Day.


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    #97
    Loughc
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    dudara wrote: »
    Jan 6th is the end. We’re only just getting started.

    I love the peace and quiet that comes after the rush in the run up to Christmas Day.

    Me too. These next few days are the best giving time to relax and reflect.


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    #98
    Peatys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Peatys


    Clonmel1000 wrote: »
    So you celebrate Christmas when it’s not Christmas and don’t when it is and you claim to love Christmas?

    Yup


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    #99
    chuckles30
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    I find the best and most relaxing time is that between now and Jan 7th. There is no rushing around, there is time to sit back and relax and enjoy it all. Nothing comes down before the 7th......I will only start taking the decs down on the 7th.


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    #100
    Muscles Schultz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 302 ✭✭Muscles Schultz


    Back in work today. Decorations will be taken down this evening when I get home


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    #101
    Day Lewin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,604 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    I love my holly decorations. I love how the room looks. I spend the 12 Days of Christmas gazing at the decorations with a silly grin on my mug. The Christmas cake has been cut and stands invitingly on a pretty plate.

    It does not end! never! please!


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    #102
    freshpopcorn
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    Out of all the things I couldn't imagine New Years without the decorations.


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    #103
    Loughc
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    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    Out of all the things I couldn't imagine New Years without the decorations.

    Same!!!


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    #104
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,185 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I'd also have the belief its nice having the decorations up when you get home from work to brighten the place up


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    #105
    splinter65
    Registered Users Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    Christmas as we celebrate it in Ireland is a Christian holiday and that means that our Christmas starts when Advent ends.
    Advent started on Dec 2 2018 and ended at midnight on Dec 24.
    Christmas ends on the Sunday after Jan 5.


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    #106
    Maggiesm70
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    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    I'd also have the belief its nice having the decorations up when you get home from work to brighten the place up

    good way of looking at it, when i was in school i hated coming come in january when the christmas lights were still up in the village, i'm the same now i hate having the decorations up when i'm back to work, i generally get back to normal on the 2nd


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    #107
    Dickie10
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    christmas songs pulled on 26th from radio


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    #108
    Dickie10
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    i would love to know these people who take down the decorations early , do they put up the tree and decorations very early? i put up my tree around 21st of dec and down the 7th


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    #109
    Loughc
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    Dickie10 wrote: »
    i would love to know these people who take down the decorations early , do they put up the tree and decorations very early? i put up my tree around 21st of dec and down the 7th

    My tree goes up last weekend of November and down first weekend in January.


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    #110
    splinter65
    Registered Users Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    Dickie10 wrote: »
    i would love to know these people who take down the decorations early , do they put up the tree and decorations very early? i put up my tree around 21st of dec and down the 7th

    Mine went up on the 15 and will come down on New Year’s Day. I never go back to work with the decos up and 2 weeks is enough.


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    #111
    Sardonicat
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    Dickie10 wrote: »
    christmas songs pulled on 26th from radio
    If they didn't start playing them on the 1st December they could play them til January 6th


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    Postgrad10
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    I got my tree up on 10th but was intensively busy until the 24th. I can't but feel disappointed how quickly Christmas was over on the 26th. No music on the radio etc. Said merry Christmas to someone in a store today and I was corrected with you mean happy New year. No, it's actually still Christmas! So annoying.


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    #113
    Loughc
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    Sardonicat wrote: »
    If they didn't start playing them on the 1st December they could play them til January 6th

    Radio stations don’t start playing Christmas songs until Dec 1st.


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    #114
    Sardonicat
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    Loughc wrote: »
    Sardonicat wrote: »
    If they didn't start playing them on the 1st December they could play them til January 6th

    Radio stations don’t start playing Christmas songs until Dec 1st.
    That's my point. December 1st is too early.


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    Cork Boy 53
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    Traditionally when I was a boy the Christmas season started on 8th December and ended on 6th January, the two Church holy days. I still stick with those dates to this day.


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    #116
    splinter65
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    Loughc wrote: »
    Radio stations don’t start playing Christmas songs until Dec 1st.

    People like Christmas music but they don’t want to hear Christmas songs until it’s Christmas. Dec 1 isn’t Christmas.


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    #117
    harr
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    Dickie10 wrote: »
    i would love to know these people who take down the decorations early , do they put up the tree and decorations very early? i put up my tree around 21st of dec and down the 7th
    We never used to put decorations till mid December but not that the kids are a bit older and full of the Christmas spirit they want them up for the toy show. So now decorations are up for the whole of December.
    All back to work on Monday so decorations will be be down by Saturday. We have never left them up for new year..


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    #118
    Graces7
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    My family celebrate and observe the Old Christmas. ie 40 days until Candlemas, Feb 2nd. We do this low key as we do Christmas, no huge hype. Outwardly visible decorations etc have been few and will quietly come down.


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    #119
    ZX7R
    Registered Users Posts: 3,426 ✭✭✭ZX7R


    Graces7 wrote: »
    My family celebrate and observe the Old Christmas. ie 40 days until Candlemas, Feb 2nd. We do this low key as we do Christmas, no huge hype. Outwardly visible decorations etc have been few and will quietly come down.

    Still widely practiced in eastern Europe graces7


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    #120
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    Graces7 wrote: »
    My family celebrate and observe the Old Christmas. ie 40 days until Candlemas, Feb 2nd. We do this low key as we do Christmas, no huge hype. Outwardly visible decorations etc have been few and will quietly come down.

    2nd Feb? That is also Groundhog Day at least in North America.


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    #121
    harr
    Registered Users Posts: 4,478 ✭✭✭harr


    Decorations all down now and house cleaned ... I have put up a few New Years decorations as we are having people over on New Year’s Eve.
    A month of decorations is more than enough..


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