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Growing up, neither my husband's nor my family ever decorated so early as many Americans do, nowadays. I am a native born American of Anglo-Irish descent, but we still didn't decorate THAT early. Both of our families always had real trees. In my family, my dad would go to his parent's woods and chop down a tree maybe two days before Christmas. They had a small forest of evergreen trees. In my husband's country of Czech Republic, "Little Jesus" brings the tree (and gifts) on Christmas Eve night and gifts are exchanged on Christmas Eve night, after the big dinner. Both our families would usually leave the trees up for a week or so after New Year's. As for decorations, other than maybe a wreath or poinsettias, other decorations besides the tree would go up no earlier than a few days before. My husband and I do the same in our household. We never had kids, so there's no pressure to do anything differently. I guess if we had kids, we would have had to find a way to meld Czech and US Christmas traditions. I suppose it would be a little confusing to kids born in such a combo household.
Czechs acknowledge Saint Nicholas, but there, Saint Nicholas only comes on the night before the Feast of Saint Nicholas, which is in early December. In CZ, Saint Nicholas comes to the doors of children along with the devil and an angel. He gives small gifts (small) to good children. They may also have little treats to eat. There is no Santa Claus in Czech Republic, and Saint Nicholas does not come on Christmas. Last edited by Anonymous46341; Dec 08, 2019 at 02:03 PM.. |
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I am just going to put up one little string of lights and call it good. No tree.
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I don’t enjoy it. I try to do a little bit at least.
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My mom was like that when I was younger, 100 different rules about how everything had to be placed. It wasn't relaxing at all.
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Yeah decorating seems to stress out people a lot for some reason when it doesn’t need to.
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Well posting Christmas cards is something I rather not do but feel obliged too. My inner Scrooge, I guess
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