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Poll Comments
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When do you put up your Christmas tree? [180 votes total]
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| Sometime in December (77) |
 43% |
| Thanksgiving weekend (46) |
 26% |
| Don't put up a tree (21) |
 12% |
| Whenever I find time (21) |
12% |
| First Sunday in Advent (11) |
 6% |
| Christmas Eve (4) |
2% |
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Posted By: Shar
Posted On: 2 days ago
Views: 8
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Christmas tree
I do a lot of decorating for Christmas. Everything that normally sets
around gets put away and Christmas decorations come out. It takes me
two or three days. I have a large tree, and it usually takes me most of
one day to decorate it. My hubby is in his early 70's and I am a few
years younger. When I started decorating this year, he said, One of
these days we're going to be too old for all this decorating. I told him
that when I got too old I'd stop. But for me, being too old will be
when I'm too frail to do it or bedridden. I love having the house look
so festive. I guess all this time he thought I was doing it for the
kids and grandkids. Fooled him.
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Posted By: big d
Posted On: 2 days ago
Views: 17
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why noy
we did trees when the kids were home. now were seventy and the kids are
fiftyish. = no tree
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Posted By: Thomas Pellitieri
Posted On: 3 days ago
Views: 45
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Slightly off topic...
Thank you, Perelandra, for providing that... I was going to myself, if
you hadn't!
I don't mind seeing "Xmas" either, knowing that it's really "Chi"-mas.
The "X" also reminds me of the Cross, and helps to remind me that this
is the Birth of our Savior.
On a related note - I'm sure you know that a simple fish shape has also
been used as a Christian symbol since the earliest of days. This is
because the Greek word for fish, "Ichthys", is also (in Greek, of
course) an acronym for "Jesus Christ, God's Son, Savior"!
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Posted By: Perelandra
Posted On: 4 days ago
Views: 105
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My tree...
...is artificial, because it was abandoned by its previous owner at the
apartment I last lived at. I adopted it, and it has served quite
well.
I put it up at or around the first Sunday in Advent, and I have a nice
little creche that I set up underneath it. Of course, my cat likes to
push the figures around, and sometimes even off the table, but the floor
is carpet over wood, so no harm, no foul.
I agree that it's nice to just have the lights off and just have the lit
tree...I use rope lights, BTW, and they are much less fuss and sturdier
than the other kind.
Troudy, the word "Xmas" is common, but you shouldn't fear it. The X is
not, as some believe, an attempt to remove Christ from Christmas; it is
one of the Greek abbreviations for "XPICTOC,"--"Christos"--meaning
Christ. If you've ever seen the X with a P going down through it,
that's another abbreviation, commonly called the "chi-rho." And
sometimes you will see "IEC," which is an abbreviation for "Iesou," or
Jesus. The X was used a lot as well as a reminder of the Cross.
So next time you see "Xmas" anywhere, just remember that, and it can be
a reminder that after Christmas and Epiphany comes Lent and Good Friday
and Easter!
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Posted By: Shar
Posted On: 4 days ago
Views: 145
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Putting up the tree
We had real trees for many years and, of course, that limits how early
you can put it up. As neither my husband or I enjoyed the task of
putting the lights on the tree(neither one of us did it very well) we
decided to go to an artificial, prelit tree, which we greatly enjoy.
The house is decorated and the tree goes up the first weekend in Advent,
although it actually takes me two days to decorate the house and at
least one day to decorate the tree. But it looks so beautiful when it's
done. We do not take any of the decorations down until 12th Night, and
I hate to take them down then. The house looks so plain and bare for
awhile. I get great pleasure just sitting in a darkened house, looking
at the lights, and listening to Christmas carols. Oh, how I love
Christmas.
Virgil, if you want to continue the previous topic of discussion, why
not go to News and Views and start the discussion. The poll section is
available for a limited time.
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Posted By: kk
Posted On: 5 days ago
Views: 176
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Christmas tree
When we use live trees we put it up more towards Christmas, but we
usually use artificial now and my daughters usually do it Thanksgiving
or that weekend while I am at work. I love to see the tree early in my
home, I feel it extends the Christmas season which I love.
I think the bigger question should be when do you take your tree down?
Since Christmas begins on Christmas and ends on little Christmas I leave
it up until Little Christmas. I do not like when people openly critize
those that do the same, they are sick of it, but do not realize when the
end of our Christmas season is.
Also we are all to remember that we do not know the date if Christmas,
December was chosen for several reasons including celebrating during the
winter with lights.
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Posted By: KK
Posted On: 5 days ago
Views: 192
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Christmas Tree
We have always put the tree up in the middle of December. We would go to
the 11:00pm candle light service and opened presents on Christmas
morning. As a teenager I would always finish up wraping my presents when
we got home from church and usually never went to bed until 3am.
This year is different. Two of my sisters won't be in town for Christmas
so we are getting together tomorrow for a Christmas Champagne Brunch. So
my Christmas tree went up this week so we can have our family Christmas
tomorrow. We all going to bake or cook something, and everyone will
bring a basket, and we will each put what we fixed in each basket so
everyone will have some of what each other cooked. This will be instead
of exhanging presents. We plan to make the Christmas Champagne Brunch a
new tridition.
I hope you all have a wonderful and blessed holiday!
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Posted By: Troudy
Posted On: 5 days ago
Views: 199
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Christmastree
Question first. :) Did some one every seen this word - xmastree
-insteadt of the right spelling Christmastree? Just trying to find out
if this is a comen thing or not.
In Germnay , you do not put up the Christmas tree before Christmas
Eve. In our house, the Christmas room was locked till after Church. All
during the day we heard some one working in there and singing etc. Who
could that be?
When the time was right, we heard a bell and the door opened and here
was the tree , glorious shining with real candles. We had to say a
Christmas poem and sing a song than we could go and look for present.
Who fixed the room, who put the tree up and put presents under the
tree? Christkindl of Course. (Baby Jesus)
When I came to the States and saw all that hussle and bussle I jut
went in panic. Than I decided, my way or no way. I did compromised and
put the tree up 2 days before Christmas. But ChristmasEve was the way
we open presents, after church of course. My children had to say a poem
, they had to sing , they opend up some presents, but they also found
next morning a few under the tree.
Now, we are alone, I might even put only the ceramic tree up, which I
made years ago. We are going out of town to the grandchildren. They also
open presents up on Christmas Eve.Granddaughters play a Christmas song
on piano and violin, with Papa playing the guitarre.
Would you believe, I have not one Christmas present yet? But I did
baked cookies and made some cake yesterday, because the Pharmacist asked
for some German cookies. I had her in school and she remembers me
baking for the class. Oh well. Have to make some one happy.
I hope and wish you all a blessed Advets time and when the Day is
here, a Merry Christmas.
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Posted By: Sian Treagh
Posted On: 5 days ago
Views: 207
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Christmas Trees
I live in the "Christmas Tree Capital of America"....Oregon...so we've
always had a live tree. We put it up the weekend before Christmas and
leave it up until Epiphany, though we slowly begin decorating the rest
of the house/yard just after Thanksgiving. My husband is now talking
about getting a fake tree right after Christmas when they go on sale but
I'm not too sure I will like that.
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Posted By: virgil
Posted On: 5 days ago
Views: 208
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Thanks Diana
I know that there are a lot more out there who feel/believe as I do.
But speak up!! Silance is the weapon that lost us so much, prayer in
school etc. Thanks to several Christian orgazions which have rose to
the occasion, Christians are winning court cases.
Please remember "All that is necessary for evil to trimputh is for
enough good men/women to keep silent"
I noticed that a comment was added to the last subject after the
first one here. How is that done, as my daughter describs my computer
skills "Dad you are not a computer literate"
That a kind way to say it.
I would like to continue the last subject, for one thing I would like
precise chapter/verse "in red" where Jesus promoted each one of the
liberal ideals!!
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Posted By: Robert
Posted On: 5 days ago
Views: 215
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Christmas tree
We had a live tree for the first 42 years of our married life. We now
have a prelit artificial tree. For the first time ever, we put it up
Thanksgiving weekend.
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Posted By: Thomas Pellitieri
Posted On: 5 days ago
Views: 233
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Tree Time!
We always had a live tree when I was growing up, and it usually went up
only a few days before Christmas Eve. Of course, it didn't come down
before Epiphany... and we'd still be finding needles in the carpet well
into the summer...
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