The great debate: When is Twelfth night?

[LavenderAskew]

Tonight or tomorrow?

Also, very importantly, when do you think is the first day (so first night) of Christmas?

Then lastly, decorations down before or after Twelfth night?

(For full disclosure, I say tonight, Christmas day and before.)

6th January?
Personally I like decorations to be down before I go back to work after New Year but my lunchtime walk showed a lot of people still have them up.

There's another thread about this already

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4445150-christmas-decs?msgid=113952034#113952034

@dementedpixie

There's another thread about this already

I looked, even did a search. Nothing.

Did that before I created this thread. How rude of search.

Are my questions better? 🤔

I've linked the thread

@dementedpixie

There's another thread about this already

And given that there's no consensus on that thread I don't suppose this one will be any dfferent

I had no idea this was such a big issue for people. Have we lost the ability ro make everyday decisions

Have we lost the ability ro make everyday decisions: yes, absolutely yes.

My stuff went back up the loft yesterday

@dementedpixie

I've linked the thread

Yes, I see.

Will explain why search didn't show anything up as it's not the same question!

Tonight! 12 days of Christmas includes the 25th itself. Tomorrow is epiphany!

I think they stay up tomorrow as the crib had to receive baby Jesus and the women enjoy little Christmas (ireland)

I ask because, if Christmas day is Day 1, the Jan 6th (popular choice for Twelfth night) is Day 13.

(I actually don't care about when people take their decorations down. That can be thrashed out on the linked thread. )

12th night is today (5th). Christmas day is the first.

The decorations one is harder- some Christian tradition states that 12th night should be the biggest celebration so decorations stay up. Other Christians sat it's Epiphany so they should cone down. And pagen tradition states there should be no greenery past 12th night (Although I'm not sure where they got that days from).

Today, it says so on my Google Calendar 😂

Well, tonight

My calendar says today.

My Google calendar is evidently holding back on me. It says nothing.

Well the schools are back, put I put that in myself. Probably doesn't count.

religionfacts.com/twelfth-night/

Tonight is Twelfth Night, so decorations stay up, as it's Christmastide until midnight.

They come down at Epiphany - ie tomorrow

Apparently Catholics say twelfth night is the 6th.

The calendar on my MacBook says it's today.

12th night starts tonight at nightfall and lasts until it starts to get dark tomorrow. Something to do with nightfall marking the start of the new day in olden times before we had clocks.

All decorations down by the time it get darks tomorrow in this house. We then have a special dinner to mark Epiphany and the end of Christmas (as we see it).

I am not religious or particularly superstitious but I like the traditions and we have always done it this way.

One of my clients is a vicar and he says today!

My watch says today

It’s today. 5th January. Just going to take ours all down after dinner.