Chrismas tree still standing Jan 1st?

[Jump This]

I always heard it was bad luck to have your Christmas tree still standing on New Years Day.

Anyone else hear that one?

[bjoehandley]

Noop, Usually that's when we've taken ours down or shortly there after.

[GrimmJeeper]

i usually burn mine in the desert new years eve. not this year, stuck at home :bawl:

[Jump This]

i usually burn mine in the desert new years eve. not this year, stuck at home :bawl:

You and me both (stuck at home.)
Bonnie and my son are at an AA potluck, and I am not invited!
Damn quitters!!
:cheers:

[scottmcneal]

RICK, man you are old..HELLO, you live in the desert..:looney:

Happy new year:party:

[Shorty]

Hell, I've had it up as late as March before and look at me--- maybe it is bad luck, huh?

[Matthew Currie]

In a lot of places it's the custom to keep it up until the 6th, which is the 12th day of Christmas, three Kings' day, etc., and often the day for presents in Europe and Latin America.

My first wife was Swiss, and in her family they also didn't put the tree up until Christmas eve.

My current wife is Cuban, and when she was a kid, they did a big deal out of 3 Kings' day. She recalls one year when they even faked camel tracks and droppings.

[wolfpackjeeper]

We leave ours up for the 12 days of christmas.

[MrShaft696]

I leave it up until we get motivated enough to put all that crap back in boxes. Could be this week or the next, as long as its before febuary.

I like the burning the tree in the desert idea, wish I had the option.

[RedHeep]

Ours is up until everyone visits. This year the in-laws won't be here until the 16th, so the house stays decorated.

[AIbandit]

Is it still bad luck if the tree is fake? I think I might be able to slide.

[GrimmJeeper]

I like the burning the tree in the desert idea, wish I had the option.

it's quite a sight to see :D they go up pretty much all at once if they are pretty dry, and crackle and pop like sparklers.


not my vid... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPROqrJdERY

[westvirginia24976]

it's quite a sight to see :D they go up pretty much all at once if they are pretty dry, and crackle and pop like sparklers.


not my vid... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPROqrJdERY



Never heard of it being bad luck, but the fire hazard could have been a reason for the folklore. Christmas trees originally had candles on them and the old hot bulbs from years ago started a few fires.

[Original_MudButt]

it's quite a sight to see :D they go up pretty much all at once if they are pretty dry, and crackle and pop like sparklers.


not my vid... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPROqrJdERY


I will have to see if I can find the pictures.... The group I camp with has a yearly tradition.

MLK weekend we go to Cuddyback Lake for the annual tree burn.

One year we counted over 300 hundred trees. It was quite the sight.......

[DrMoab]

Mine is up but its coming down this weekend. We have a neighbor who keeps theirs up until around April.

[XJumpmaster]

Ours will be up till next weekend as we are in Moab. Ha ha.

[Jump This]

Ours will be up till next weekend as we are in Moab. Ha ha.

:moon:

[kastein]

i usually burn mine in the desert new years eve. not this year, stuck at home :bawl:Glad I'm not the only one :D (the burning bit, not the stuck at home bit... though I was sorta stuck at home)

I leave it up until we get motivated enough to put all that crap back in boxes. Could be this week or the next, as long as its before febuary.

I like the burning the tree in the desert idea, wish I had the option.
If you have campfires or go tent camping or anything, you do have the option - cut all the branches off, cut the trunk up, box it all up and stick it in the shed/attic/closet/basement/whatever until camping season. Makes GREAT fire starting material, also good when you're camping the last weekend the state parks are open and it's really really cold. A park ranger accused me of throwing gas on the fire last time, luckily we had some left so we demonstrated a few more branches for him. He thought it was great.

[bjoehandley]

Is it still bad luck if the tree is fake? I think I might be able to slide.

Who knows, cold be interesting to watch burn though:laugh3:

[IndyXJ]

Mine's still up, not necessarily by choice. But yeah, I hope it's down by Wednesday.

[wolfpackjeeper]

In High school we used to have a bonfire mid january or early feb every year. My parent had just finished building a house that required clearing some heavily wooded area to fit it in. We had enough material for quite a few bonfires. We would go around on trash day the few weeks before with jeeps and pickups and pick up every tree we saw. My senior year we had close to 50 trees stacked up in my backyard come bonfire night.

The fire was in no way small. We built a normal fire stack a good 4 to 5 feet wide and about as high. and then as it burned down we would teepee in 6 or 7 trees at a time. we go 10 tin once, all stood up, and we thought it put the fire out, then it shot a 40ft piller of flame out the top, you had to back up about 30ft just to escape the heat. The sheriff's deputy that stopped by about 10 minutes later said he could see the flame pillar from the highway 3 miles away.

memories...

[Carol.92124]

I'm hoping to have mine de-decorated this week so I can take it to Truckhaven next weekend =). If not, with my clean-up skills I'll be taking it to KOH in mid-Feb, or to the SoCalXJ Jambo in late March!! :looney: