twelfth

frogmorton
frogmorton Member Posts: 30,087
edited 4. Jan 2010, 14:04 in Community Chit-chat archive
Hi Everyone!!
Please can you tell me when I can 'safely' take my decorations down???
Wanna do it now!
Love
Toni xx

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  • skezier
    skezier Member Posts: 11,333
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Toni,

    12th night is the 6th I think? I got to do the tree indoors today..... I am so tired of picking it back up every day and sometimes in relay :wink: Yo got the same trouble with Miss Daisy? Love Cris xx
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,087
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Yep! and I ma sick of the mess! Is it bad luck do you know to do it early? or is it bad luck to do it LATE???
    Love
    Toni xx
  • skezier
    skezier Member Posts: 11,333
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Toni,

    Think I might have a holly one next year...... That will stop them :wink: Its meant to be bad luck if they are still up after the 12th night, before the 6th I don't think it matters. Its not up, its having them on........ Erk's in mine just now but it think its been battered and chewed enough for one year....... I got a dif one out there but its in a box and naturally the box is full of rats........ :lol::lol: How are you today? xx
  • barbara12
    barbara12 Member Posts: 21,281
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi everyone,
    You are supposed to take them down on the 6th this is the 12th day, it is bad luck to leave them up after the 12th or take them down before.
    I am saying **** This I have done it every year has my mother did and still got bad luck.
    So I took them down yesterday, see what this year brings.
    Love to you all
    Barbara xx :lol::lol:
    Love
    Barbara
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,087
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Mmmmm
    am scared!
    Too scared to take 'em down!!!
    Holly sounds good Cris and Barbara - can I wait and see what happens to you???
    Love
    Toni xx
  • barbara12
    barbara12 Member Posts: 21,281
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi
    You have me scared again now, think I might put them up again' :lol::lol:
    Love Barbara xx
    Love
    Barbara
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,087
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    barbara12 wrote:
    Hi
    You have me scared again now, think I might put them up again' :lol::lol:
    Love Barbara xx
    Ha ha hahahahaha!!!!
    Ph Barbara - it's worse for me I've just seen a Magpie!!!!!
    Toni x
    (not at all superstitious)
  • skezier
    skezier Member Posts: 11,333
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Toni,

    Now the magpie one ........ you'll be ok as long as you salute him :wink: Hey the indoor one come down but the hawthorn gets to the 6th so I am covering my self ......... in case :lol::lol: xx
  • colinone
    colinone Member Posts: 1,039
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    hello toni,
    well its all so confusing i suppose it depends what you believe in and weather or not the 12 days of christmas is not just a little like rudolf the red nosed reindeer just a myth he says as if the other 8 are true lol
    Anyway if you look in the dictionary you will find 12th night falls on the 5th of Jan not the 6th it is the eve of epithany and thats the time to take your decy's down if thats what you believe. Take Care
    Colin
    One last thing it is said that if you leave them up after 12th night you must leave them up all year. Ho Ho Ho
  • ninakang
    ninakang Member Posts: 1,367
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Needs to be done by 12th night (6th January) but I take mine down on New Year's Eve because I like the house clean and tidy for new year.

    Nx
  • joanlawson
    joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hey Colin

    Great to see you :!: :!: I hope you had a good Christmas, and Happy New Year to you :!: I hope you are feeling better.

    Hoping to see you on the forum more often in 2010.

    Joan
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  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,087
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Thanks everyone!
    Colin - that is good news! tomorrow then as I am NOT leaving them all year :shock:
    That would be ho ho ho horrible!!! :wink:
    Good to see you :)
    Toni xx
  • mellman01
    mellman01 Member Posts: 5,306
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    The 12 day's of crimbo is from the Pagen solstice 12 days of celebration so it's only an old wives tail that it's bad luck, well fingers crossed and touch wood!.
  • elnafinn
    elnafinn Member Posts: 7,412
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    frogmorton wrote:
    Hi Everyone!!
    Please can you tell me when I can 'safely' take my decorations down???
    Wanna do it now!
    Love
    Toni xx

    Hi Toni

    As I understand it, all decs should be away by the 6th this year. It does not matter when you put them away before the 6th January. I put everything away on the 29th this year as we were away for new year and I wanted it all to be back to normal when I got back.

    The look on my little grandies face said it all, when she ran into the front room to where the tree had been, did a twirl, arms outstretched, palms up and exclaimed "tree"! She cannot string two words together yet but she made herself perfectly clear with what she meant. Priceless!

    Luv
    Elna x
    The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.

    If you can lay down at night knowing in your heart that you made someone's day just a little bit better, you know you had a good day.
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,087
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Elna
    That's sort of what I wanted to do here. Have it all back to normal eh :wink:
    Little Lola!
    The little darling! She wants it back!!!!!
    Won't she enjoy next Christmas though eh?
    If you are sure I won't be cursed all year....
    Love
    Toni xx
  • jackie1955
    jackie1955 Member Posts: 632
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Toni,

    My Mum always took the xmas decorations down on Twelfth Night, 5th January.

    I love tradition, particularly these days when so many old customs are being lost :( I find it comforting somehow to think that I, along with thousands of others, will be taking the decorations down in unison on Twelfth Night, carefully and lovingly wrapping up special trinkets 'til next time.

    Jackie x

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