Bad Luck Christmas Tree Tradition

Something that always seemed odd to me - People who can't wait for Thanksgiving to put their trees up, so much that they'll have them up even a week before Thanksgiving arrives, but then a day or two after Christmas, they take them down right away. If you love the tree so much, why not leave it up just a little longer? Maybe they have just had them up for so long that they can't stand having them up any longer and must take them down right away? Me, I'm the kind of person who waits until the first week or two of December to put mine up, so it stays up until a certain date in January. That's supposed to be good luck, not to take it down until that date.

Just like the song, there really are 12 days of Christmas, but these days begin on December 25. The don't start earlier and end when Santa has come and gone. Instead, the 12 days of Christmas go from December 25 through January 5. January 6 marks the day the three kings actually arrived in Bethlehem, also called The Feast of Epiphany, Three Kings Day, or The Twelfth Night, and is the earliest a tree should be taken down because that’s the date that signals the end of the traditional celebrations.