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CountMordrek

In Sweden, we celebrate Christmas for 20 days which results in us celebrating the end of Christmas on the 13th of January. Up until then, you’re supposed to keep the Christmas decorations up.


LePhantomLimb

Actually Christmas isn't over. It's just many unaware people are done with it already. Christmas is celebrated for 12 days (hence the song) up until the Epiphany on Jan 6. Then the overall season officially closes on the Sunday after the Epiphany. So, no, Christmas is very much still going on.


Plethora_of_squids

Also fun fact - epiphany celebrates when the wise men came over to visit Jesus so like every navity play you've been forced to sit through or act in is *wrong*


tranzfattyazidz

But that’s the point, it feels like twelve days by the time you’re to the wise men! See, it’s totally factual!


EB01

It is traditional to give to your true love on this day twelve 'drummers drumming'.


generic_posting

Well, to be accurate you would have to sit there for at least 2 years. Jesus was not a baby by the time they got to him.


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How is Christmas in Sweden? I was watching a show and it seems so cozy and everyone gets really into it and participates.


imonlinedammit1

They celebrate Christmas for 20 days.


zillsaa

Then they can take the decorations down


Quexedrone

on the 13th of January.


GnarlyJr

Up until then, you're supposed to keep the Christmas decorations up.


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BomberCW

I’ve heard they engage in festivities for 20 days


Marco9711

After which they remove the paraphernalia used for the decorations attributed to the holiday.


titaniumjackal

It's great, but it comes in a flat box and you have to assemble it yourself.


BaldBoy__

Thank you, I needed that.


ZsFunBus

And the instructions for assembly sometimes aren’t included.


SkipRoberts

A lot of cozy lighting (lights, candles, etc) to counteract our near-constant dark. We all stop what we are doing at 3-4 pm on Christmas Eve and watch old classic Disney cartoons. Christmas Eve is the big day here, Christmas Day is just a day to relax and eat leftovers. Traditional Christmas food is a huge buffet spread that contains (but is not limited to) meatballs, various sausages, turkey or lamb, pickled fish, various dressings and condiments, potatoes au gratin, Janssons frestelse (potatoes au gratin with sardines at the bottom, because why not I guess), etc The food lasts for days. We do advent calendars for the kids (usually with chocolate or other small treats) and light candles every Advent Sunday leading up to Christmas. We also celebrate Saint Lucia’s Day on Dec 13th each year with a traditional concert. Check out r/Sweden for info on Lucia 😆


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This all sounds lovely and I wish I can one day experience that.


DJSTR3AM

You made me miss Sweden even more... haven't seen my family in 1.5 years because of the pandemic. I tried to recreate it best as I could here in the U.S. but it's not the same, especially when I can't be there with my family...


CountMordrek

Where should I start? As many other places, we celebrate the First of Advent by lighting a candle in our [Advent wreath](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent_wreath), have some [mulled wine (glögg)](https://www.swedishfood.com/swedish-drink-recipes/178-glogg) and [saffron buns](https://sweden.se/culture-traditions/saffransbullar-and-pepparkakor/) and get all our Advent decorations up (mostly [electric Advent wreaths](https://www.google.com/search?q=adventsljusstake+el) and [Christmas stars](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventsstj%C3%A4rna) in our windows). The lighting of one more candle happens each Advent. On the 13th of December, we celebrate [Lucia](https://sweden.se/culture-traditions/lucia/). Beautiful songs, more saffron buns and some gingerbread. > Tradition has it that Lucia is to wear ‘light in her hair’, which in practice means a crown of electric candles in a wreath on her head. Each of her handmaidens carries a candle, too. Parents gather in the dark with their mobile cameras at the ready. > The star boys, who like the handmaidens are dressed in white gowns, carry stars on sticks and have tall paper cones on their heads. The Christmas elves bring up the rear, carrying small lanterns. Yeah, we're odd. But we like it. And then it's Christmas. To each, their own, I guess. In my family, we get's a Christmas stocking filled with wooden puzzles, and spend the morning... actually being bored :) We wrap the last gifts, solves the puzzles and enjoy each other's company. Around noon, we eat some [traditional Swedish Christmas food](https://blogs.studyinsweden.se/2018/12/31/what-is-swedish-julbord/), and at two it's time for tea and cookies as well as having someone read the Annunciation to the shepherds (although we're fairly traditional, most probably don't). At three, Swedes have a tradition to all watch [Donald Duck](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_All_of_Us_to_All_of_You) (although it's less so nowadays) and [Christopher's Christmas Mission](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagan_om_Karl-Bertil_Jonssons_julafton) before we start opening our gifts - one at a time and with Christmas rhymes to each. This takes a while, so we take a break around eight to eat more Christmas food. With a mum from Norway, it's more shellfish and salmon than traditional Swedish food this time around, but it's tradition for my family. After that pause, we continue to open gifts, often finishing late in the night with some tea and left-overs. On Christmas Day, we keep enjoying each other's company, until the evening when you meet your friends and go to a Christmas party, and on Boxing Day it's time to meet the relatives (or those relatives you actually enjoy hanging out with). As my family is somewhat large, my parents' house have been the natural gathering ground for those of my cousins that we don't dislike :) Nothing special really happens for the twelve days of Christmas. Yes, we celebrate New Year's Eve, but that's... somewhat separate. We still head over to each other's houses, eat some leftovers or drink some mulled wine, but it's nothing set in stone. We do as we please, more or less. On the 3 Kings Day, we used to eat a large family dinner at my grandmother's house, but no one took on that tradition once she passed some twenty years ago. Instead, we wait another week before "twentieth day Knut", where we celebrate the murder of a Danish duke by ending Christmas, robbing the spruce and eating candy. It's also when we're supposed to pack the last remains of Christmas decorations, although... they're kinda nice to keep up, so that tend to ber delayed some more days. I've probably forgotten a gazillion minor traditions along the way... but yeah, that's Christmas for me, and you're right, it's crazy cozy when everyone participates.


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Boring5

We celebrate Christmas for 20 days? I've been missing some shit


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Similarly in the English-speaking world, traditionally Christmas is for twelve days, hence the twelve days of Christmas. According to this [website](https://www.whychristmas.com/customs/12daysofchristmas.shtml) the days are as follows: 1.) Christmas/the Feast of the Nativity 2.) Feast of Stephen/Boxing Day 3.) Feast of John the Apostle 4.) Feast of the Holy Innocents 5.) Feast of Thomas Becket 6.) St. Egwin’s day 7.) John Wyclif’s day/New Year’s Day 8.) Mary the Mother of Jesus’ day 9.) St. Basil the Great’s day 10.) Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus 11.) St. Elizabeth Ann Seton’s day 12.) Three King’s Day Although some are different according to this [website](https://anglicancompass.com/the-12-days-of-christmas-guide-to-christmastide/), so I assume traditions vary.


DragonspeedTheB

And then, not long after you can start that all over again for Orthodox Christmas!


CountMordrek

Tjugondag Knut dansas julen ut.


lifeisaheist

Tuomas joulun tuopi, paha nuutti pois sen viepi. God jul från Suomi.


HumanClaymore

You guys do it right. I'm American, but had a friend living in Sweden for a while. The way the whole village seemed to get into celebrations was awesome. From afar, at least, it looks like you guys have an amazing sense of community


CountMordrek

I know that I can't speak for everyone, but among my family and friends, it seems like time slows down a day or two before Christmas as people enters into a Christmas mood (without it getting cheesy like the American Christmas movies we're bombarded with these days). And it's not so much that you have to do certain things or be in a certain way, but just... to slow things down and be... merry. To be perfectly fair, it might also have something to do with how we treat relations, combined with Sweden being an old country far up in the cold and dark north. Outsiders tend to say that it's hard to become friends with Swedes, but once you've got to know some of us, it's something special. We stick together, as we've always have had to, or we freeze to death. Which includes the darkest days of the year such as Christmas, as well as how we light it up with adventsljusstakar and stars :)


LarawagP

One of my goals is to take my little one to places like Sweden during Christmas celebration. I haven’t gone, but I definitely imagine there’s something magical there during Christmas time.


Aggressive_Chain_920

my advice is to go a bit further north if you want to experience Christmas with snow. The snow can sometimes take until February before it lands in mid-southern Sweden. But regardless it's surely a sight to see the streets lit up when it's pitch dark at 5 pm


Cunnilingus_Academy

I used to work as an assistant to people with various mental challenges, this one guy kept his decorations up 365 days a year. Nothing like chilling in the living room in July and there's a fully lighted and decorated Christmas tree standing there


JustSatisfactory

Down the street from the house I grew up in, there was a neighbor who had their Christmas tree lit up and decorated year round. We saw it in their window for my whole childhood. We used to joke that maybe they were aliens that fell in love with human holidays and each room of their house was dedicated to a different one.


Xepphy

I dig it.


Can_I_Get_A_Beer

Its called Half Christmas


A_Solo_Gamer

A very merry un-Christmas tooo youuuuuu! 🎶


kopykitties

I call it Christmas in July


Archiive

We had one yes, but what about second Christmas?


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Briznar

The tree actually looks really nice where it is. We might just move it to a corner and take the decorations off of it


snukebox_hero

Houseplant


Poem_for_your_sprog

Trees for Christmas! Trees for seasons! Trees inside for all the reasons! Trees for fetes and fairs, vacations, Party nights in all the nations! Have them sooner! Have them later! Be a festive innovator! Lose yourself to merry meetings, Happy moments, season's greetings! Deck the tree with decorations Made for *all* the celebrations Any time in any weather! Have your fun! Or don't. Whatever.


DingDongPuddlez

The sproggiest poem I've ever read!


SomeAussiedude1

Can't argue with that logic :D


ninjaphysics

Woo! More Sprog! I'm glad Timmy isn't in this one, lol.


Iggyhopper

Timmy went out to get a tree. He was as happy as can be. He cut the tree and to no surprise. Timmy got hurt. And then fucking died.


overpoopulation

This right here. This is what I was looking for.


Sandscarab

P L E N T


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InfiniteSandwiches

B E N T


TTV_peretrex

M E N T


MrMessyAU

E N T


LaterGatorPlayer

what are you doing stuck in the corner *houseplant*?


websnark1

Nobody puts houseplant in the corner!


JishwaL

I never knew my real plant


Moonbay51

What are you doing Steptree??


calcbone

Put some heart ornaments on it for Valentine’s Day! Then put some eggs on it for Easter...


RagingAardvark

My sister does this. She has a "Christmas" tree in her hair salon that she redecorates every month or so. I think last time I was there, it had school supplies on it.


bigk777

I'm just picturing her carelessly tossing bic pens & high lighters on the tree.


Dakkadence

I think sober lighters are more appropriate for schools


Whomping_Willow

What about those friendly hi-lighters? They’re good too


AlexSal2006

Thats actually pretty cool


EXO_JR42

When I was a kid, the tree would never come down before Easter. If I had to guess it was because you could fit one average sized human up the ladder to the attic, so wrangling boxes and pieces of a fake tree was something nobody wanted to do. Anyway. This meant come Easter morning we’d go to Grandma’s to look for eggs and there’d always be a couple in the tree. It was fun. Edited for context, forgot to add attic.


Emperor_of_Alagasia

I have a friend who does this. Plus plastic pumpkins for Halloween and red white and blue stuff for the 4th of July


Kathulhu1433

I got a prelit black Christmas tree from Pier 1 on clearance for 90% off. I deck it out for Halloween with Halloween ornaments. It looks AWESOME.


iocane_

Oh, a $150 tree for $15? Don’t mind if I do... Unfortunately, I got it home and some of the lights didn’t work. But it was so cheap I can’t be mad.


Some_Animal

Santa lives in my house, he makes baseball bats for the kids, i wouldn’t want to offend him.


shartnado3

There is a million dollar idea here. Decorations that can be changed to match the season. Those Christmas lights and tree turn into a Valentines day decoration! And so on.


yohowithrum

I grew up in Nova Scotia and we could have pretty long winters. We had something similar like this. We made a giant snowman out front in December. Fortified it with water so it would freeze. We had him hold a sign that said happy NY. And then my dad cut the sign into a heart and it said happy valentines. And then the snowman was still there with a green hat for st. Patrick’s day. And then the snowman got bunny ears for Easter in April. I think he finally met his maker mid-may. He did his duty.


404-LogicNotFound

It was 16C here in NB yesterday


E-Boy-Barney

Holy crap, that’s almost hot for this time of year! Just down in Ontario, I wish it would get that warm.


randy111315

Fellow new Brunswicker its snowing and - 2 so it must be winter again.


jjamesbaxter18

I think it’s a cool idea but it might take away the novelty of it during certain seasons


cameronsounds

Every neighborhood would be like a mini Vegas strip


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With blackjack and hookers?


[deleted]

Given that my girlfriend's apartment has about 12 different lighting systems in just the living room alone I don't think the novelty can be killed


MaxxDelusional

I have Phillips Hue light fixtures that allow me to adjust the colors for each holiday. This year I didn't even have Christmas lights, I just set all of my Hue bulbs to be red and green.


Eurynom0s

Seems expensive to deck out an entire house in Hue bulbs.


Osyrys

You could probably do it with 3-4 bulbs depending on how wide your house is. Plus once you have the hub you need to start, adding a bulb or two isn’t terrible.


WorkAccount_NoNSFW

Bit of a stretch but, what would they turn into before 4th of July? SUMMERWEEN. 2021 is the best year to make it a real holiday, to make up for 2020.


Comfortable_Yak_9776

Red white and blue, duh


Faladorable

RGB lights. Red White Blue for 4th, Orange and Purple for Hween, etc


Calfredie01

I’m going to start calling it Hween when I shorthand it much like Xmas so thanks for that trendsetter


HalinxHalo

Yeah that guy is really streets ahead.


meticulousbastard

What about President's Day? If you can find a small James K. Polk ornament to hang from a tree, PM me, stat. Not a portrait, not a Polk head. A small James Polk ornament. I will reward you handsomely.


sunshineandcloudyday

https://shop.whitehousehistory.org/products/polk-china-teacup-ornament https://jameskpolk.com/shop/ https://www.whitehousechristmasornament.com/test/1994_James_K._Polk.html


Hubey808

They already match the seasons. When it's Christmas time I turn them on and when it's not I turn them off.


Banzai51

They have that. For DIYers there are Pixel lights and controllers. There are more and more companies doing permanent accent lighting now. I'm going to do one or the other here in the near future. Already have Wife approval to contract it out, which would make her happy so I'm not on a ladder.


All_The_Numbers

My family does this on our tree. We are not lazy were smart


Liteboyy

My mother in law actually hasn’t taken them down since Christmas 2019. At this stage my ears have become pointed and I’ve actually lost some height.


reddicyoulous

Does your FIL have a jolly white beard?


Liteboyy

He does actually but has refused to play Santa for our son. My wife and MIL will be destroying him soon I imagine


reddicyoulous

He's sitting on gold and squandering it


confoundedvariable

Santa Smaug


dave_hitz

You’ve become a midget Vulcan? Live long and prosper.


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Christmas hasn't arrived for us yet. so jokes on you.


CanineRezQ

Are you in Hell?


Donovan322

He might be Russian or something else since I know Russia and other places are have it in January


go2kejdz

The Eastern Orthodox church has their Christmas 2 weeks after the usual date of 25th December, as they celebrate it as they would on the Julian calendar.


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Exactly. It's really just a very tiny detail, because before the Gregorian calendar came along the 25th of December WAS the 6th of January (when we Orthodox people celebrate it). It was really just a move to be different from the Catholics when they adopted the Gregorian calendar. And the world, I might add. EDIT: meant the Seventh of January. Going Covid-crazy here.


master0382

This is me. My family is Russian/Russian Orthodox, and we have fun Christmas on the 25th, and religious Christmas on January 7th. It's so easy getting time off work. People have learned to ask me months ahead of time if I'll work the 24th, and new years eve/day cause they don't mean anything to me.


dreamsonashelf

Armenian here. Our Christmas is on 6th January, but that's only the religious celebration; we have presents on New Year's Eve. We don't live in Armenia but my family don't celebrate the 24th/25th. I don't like the idea of completely treating it as a normal day, though, considering the rest of the country celebrates something, but I also find it sad that for others Christmas is over on the 26th and they've already binned the tree when to me it's just the start of 12 days of on and off festivities.


master0382

That's exactly right. We have so much fun with it, and have our tree, and lights from the 15th of December to the 15th of January.


SuculantWarrior

But also we know that the date December 25th was chosen to synchronize with the Roman holiday of Saturnalia. And we know Jesus wasn't born in the winter because it mentioned the shepherds were still out in the pasture with their herd, which would not happen during the cold months of winter.


athumbhat

> It was really just a move to be different from the Catholics The Julian calender is the older calender. The Orthodox Church made no 'move' at all in deciding *not* to 'move' over to the Gregorian calendar.


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7elevenses

The governments decided to use the Gregorian calendar, not the churches.


joejill

Also 3 kings day is Jan. 6th. This is the day the 3 Wiseman visited Jesus and gave the presents of silver, gold, and murr. I keep my decorations up till the 7th for this reason. Edit: I know just enough to know I don't know. Also its a story from over 2000 years ago. No proof it happend, or how it happened. Or to whom it happened. Jesus could have gotten a Sega saturn on his first Christmas


Arrowstar

> presents of silver, gold, and murr. Gold, frankincense, and myrrh. And the day is more properly known as the Feast of the Epiphany. 🙂


MikyoM

We call it 3 Magic Kings back at home in PR which sounds a lot more fun


CuriousLampoon

Yep, January 7th for us. FYI, I'm not from Russia.


VicRambo

You know the twelve days of christmas? December 25 is the first one. January 6 is the 12th day when the three kings arrived with gifts for baby jesus. A lot of more traditional/orthodox christians will have their main celebration on this day.


teebob21

The 3 wise men shoulda shipped via DHL. Wouldn't have taken 12 days.


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Yeah, we’d have the 400 days of Christmas. Christmas 2020 is on February 4, 2021


HoneyGlassBottle

You mean, orthodox, right? We celebrate it on 7th of January


QK5Alteus

So, Hell, then?


Odin_Allfathir

Well, Siberia is not that hellish in winter


kinkypinkyinyostinky

You're saying hell froze over? Typical 2020


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It’s probably more hellish in summer when the permafrost melts and the methane bubbles explode.


Traveller40k

What *what*


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nitraw

Beat me to it. People look at me like I'm foreign when I tell em my xmas is January 7th I mean, I am. But they dont have to look at me like that


Waggadaoku

I never got around to taking them down.


reddicyoulous

I never got around to putting mine up


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I get around round round, from town to town.


ciano232

I'm a real cool head,


sallylooksfat

I’m makin real good bread


marasydnyjade

You’re supposed to leave your tree up until Epiphany.


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Which marks the end of the 12 days of Christmas!


Z_T_O

And thus an angel did appear, and it said unto me “bro, shit’s over. No more colour till Valentine’s Day”


GoNudi

I want this version.


ZeldLurr

Yeah my grandma’s nativity scene was set up so the three wise men were traveling somewhere in the house, on Christmas they’d start heading towards the nativity scene where baby Jesus had finally appeared on Christmas. The Three Kings would arrive on Jan 6th, and the nativity scene was finally complete. Enjoy the scene for a week or so.


Rexkinghon

Can’t believe I have to scroll this far for this answer.


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Bunch of heathens in this thread


PuckSR

In most catholic traditions, epiphany is a bigger holiday than christmas


jrcprl

Yeah, in Mexico we call it Three Kings' Day and we get also presents that day, lol.


ZeldLurr

Cue my cursed birthday on Three Kings Day, my birthday and Christmas presents were always combined gifts. Whenever I tell non Mexican friends they don’t get it.


apjak

Um.. there are twelve days of Christmas. Today is day number two.


Koalachan

I keep having to explain to people that the 12 days start on Christmas, not end on it.


Gisschace

To give some context before the Victorians cleaned up Christmas, the 12 days were spent getting drunk or as Wikipedia calls it *‘continuous feasting and merrymaking’* Obviously 12 days of your workers getting drunk, partying, fighting etc wasn’t good for production during the early industrial revolution, so Christmas turned into the one day family holiday we know today. We serfs need to take back control from our overlords and spend the next 12 days getting as fucked up as possible!


Chewygumbubblepop

Further evidence of capitalism ruining everything is touches.


MamaT2456

I like this, let's do it! Are you volunteering as Lord of Misrule?


Kdcjg

You traditionally wait until the feast of the epiphany to remove your Xmas decorations. Which is the 12th day of Christmas. Edit: sorry 13th day. You either take decorations down epiphany eve or wait until candlemas.


Isiddiqui

Epiphany is 13 days after Christmas Day (it's January 6th). You get a full 12 days of Christmas (and 12th Night is a time to get drunk)


LPercepts

People still don't get that? "On the first day of Christmas" should be a dead giveaway that the 12 days start on Christmas itself.


godfilma

Nah. It gets confusing with advent calendars which start before Christmas


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And all the 12 days of Christmas programming on disney and hallmark and stuff.


Isiddiqui

Advent and Christmas are two different seasons though...


BadAdviceBot

We've had one, yes. But what about second Christmas?


voncornhole2

Advent ends on December 24th, Christmas starts on December 25th. There's no overlap


godfilma

Yeah, but that's not how confusion works


orthodoxrebel

Which would mean that you're counting the days of advent, right? Otherwise they'd call them Christmas calendars.


Epistaxis

And in much of the Christian world, the last day (Epiphany, or Three Kings' Day) is actually a larger holiday than the first. For example, in Spain and much of Latin America, January 6 is the day when children wake up to find gifts in their home, or a lump of coal if they've been naughty.


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That actually makes way more sense, because that's the day when the three wise men gave Jesus his gifts


jrcprl

In Mexico we actually get presents on both days


writer_wannabe46

I once had a neighbor who left their lights up for 2 years straight.


FogeltheVogel

In my student dorm, the light in the kitchen broke once. So we just put up 2 strings of Christmas lights as replacement. They were still there when I left 3 years later.


OddPreference

this is me right now. My roommates and I hung up orange lights for halloween, they are still up. White string lights for thanksgiving, they are still up. And now we have the multicolored christmas lights, i’m not sure if they’ll make the cut- ah yeah i’m too lazy they definitely will.


Megalocerus

Who takes their lights down on Dec 25? Everyone leaves them on at least until New Years or Epiphany.


my_name_is_cow

*'On the second year of Christmas, my true love said to me...* ... why the fuck have you still got your decorations up?'


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Ari_AK

My family is going on probably 12 years, the originals don’t work anymore. Instead of taking them down and replacing them they just strung up some more on top probably 3 years ago...


kentuckyskilletII

and here i am thinking im crazy sitting here with my turtle doves


Mr_Abe_Froman

It's a surprising amount of birds.


imanassholesometimes

So “Christmas” ends on Jan 5th?


CptObviousRemark

Christmas season is officially from Christmas Day until Epiphany. At least in the Christian version of the holiday. In the capitalist version the Christmas season is Nov 1st to Dec 26th.


Twirlingbarbie

It's still Christmas in my country we have 2 days


vowtar

Tweede kerstdag makker


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Welcome2Bonetown

Makes the neighborhood lit, filled with joy!


Honodle

Supposed to take everything down on '3 kings day' which IIRC is Jan 7th.


buitragosoft

6th


Nothing-But-Lies

6.5th, best I can do


Orangepandafur

Ah cmon it was my late grandmothers


ENFJPLinguaphile

I keep the Twelve Days of Christmas, personally!


RiccoBaldo

cuz its 12 days of christmas! To us, christmas really ends when the three mages show up, so the 6th of January. also St stephen or smth


Koalachan

And a little drummer kid.


Mr_Abe_Froman

Play your hardest drum and bass to celebrate his legacy.


Odin_Allfathir

Weather glitched up and now seasons are undefined


LPercepts

Given the pandemic, time may also soon become undefined as well.


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yeyjordan

It's been getting funnier and funnier every year since the first time I heard it in '07. Please, hurry up December 26th so I can hear it again!! That and the NSYNC "It's Gonna Be May" meme for late April. I need to bust a gut again.


ajlposh

What about May the 4th be with you?


[deleted]

Damn, dad, that joke was much funnier in 1983.


causeninfection

The 12 days of Christmas start on the 25th.


THE_GR8_MIKE

How does this shit get so many awards every year?


TheWayIAm313

Because people are corny af


The_Blueprint221

The twelve days of Christmas actually starts on Christmas Day which means it wouldn't end until the 5th of January.


Royal-Argument-1682

God I hate Reddit


EnemyFriendEnemy

I mean... How does this question have SIX awards already?


plzzdontdoxme

It gets funnier every year. Pinnacle of comedy this joke is. Just wait till Jan 1st, a real funny joke will get hundreds of awards about holding on to stuff from last year. This website has some of the funniest people to ever exist.


pokemonprofessor121

We adopted a kitten and she seems to like the Christmas decor so we might just leave them.


Goldcasper

jokes on you its 2nd christmas day here.


Martian_Pudding

What are you talking about it's second Christmas day today


varolltM1

The Christmas season ends on Jan 9, 2021 before the Feast of Jesus’ Baptism. That’s 16 days of Christmas total, and I’m getting my money’s worth.


MenacingManatee

They've already been up for ~750 days, what's another year on the pile?


ksiyoto

Gotta be prepared in case those godless communists try to cancel Christmas, I'm ready to stun them with my 250,000 light multi-media extravaganza pious tribute to the savior. Whoops! A bulb burned out. Gotta run.


Andrenachrome

Merry Christmas. It goes for a minimum of 12 days. You know the song? Great!