On this Sunday after Christmas, chances are many people have already taken down O Tannenbaum and put away the decorations.
After all, itâs Dec. 27. Santa came, presents were opened, and the Christmas meal was eaten. And that tree had been in the living room for a month.
Not so fast, my mother would have said. Inez Hinton observed something called Old Christmas. The cedar tree cut from the woods around her house wasnât brought inside and decked out with big colored bulbs and silver tinsel until well into December. After all, it had to stay at least a little fresh until Jan. 6, the date of Old Christmas.