Final date to take Christmas tree down and what superstition says will happen if you don't
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Christmas Tree Traditions Point to January or FebruaryIn Birmingham, collections are scheduled for January 14 and 15, while religious customs also identify February 2.
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- Birmingham’s Treecycling 2024 scheme is scheduled for January 14 and 15, and people in specified B postcodes can have trees collected and recycled for a donation to Birmingham Hospice.
- The Twelve Days of Christmas run from December 25 to January 5, so many people remove their tree on the evening of January 5 or on Epiphany the following day.
- Candlemas falls on February 2, and English Heritage keeps decorations up until then in its historic houses.
- Dr Michael Carter of English Heritage calls the idea that leaving decorations up after Twelfth Night or Epiphany brings bad luck a modern invention that may derive from a medieval belief about goblins after Candlemas Eve.
Contrary to popular belief, the Christmas season continues right through to Candlemas so there's no real reason why you should take your decorations down earlier. The tradition that it is bad luck to keep decorations up after Twelfth Night and the Epiphany is a modern invention, although it may derive from the medieval notion that decorations left up after Candlemas Eve would become possessed by goblins.— Dr Michael Carter, Senior Properties Historian, English Heritage
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