Decorating For Christmas ?

[STP]

Yeah, I know it’s early. I just started and it takes me about 2 weeks to decorate the inside and out. We have 10 Christmas trees, including some living, some real/cut, and some artificial. A lot of work, but my family and I enjoy the holidays and like to indulge the season festivities. How many other Christmas gurus are out there... ?

 

[captainsousie]

Awesome looking decorations you have there. My wife is a Christmas nut and we've got our first tree up. We do the surface clearing tomorrow so that they can be decorated for Christmas. It's mostly tasteful but it's the first time in 7 years we have spent more than 2 weeks in the states for Christmas so we'll probably go a bit overboard with our old decorations.

 

[workman]

I am enforcing the rule that christmas stuff is verboten in my house before december.

 

[jguss]

Yeah, I know it’s early. I just started and it takes me about 2 weeks to decorate the inside and out. We have 10 Christmas trees, including some living, some real/cut, and some artificial. A lot of work, but my family and I enjoy the holidays and like to indulge the season festivities. How many other Christmas gurus are out there... ?
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I love the end result but not the work. How about doing my yard and house too in exchange for a birth year Dunhill loaded with some cutter top Balkan Sobranie OSM?

 

[ray47]

Love your decorations. I don't decorate for Christmas and haven't for the last 3 years. The wife has a bad back and I have bad arthritis in my hands so it's very difficult to put up decorations, but I do love seeing everyone's decorations. When I did decorate, the decorations went up the second week of December and came down after New Years.

 

[scloyd]

I'm really not into decorating for any holidays...my wife is though. My job is to carry all the bins with decorations down from the attic and then carry the bins back to the attic when they're empty. Do it all over again on New Years Day...carry down the empty bins, carry up the full bins. It makes her happy, so I'm good with it.

 

[mso489]

Someone needs to come up with Christmas lights for a mask.

 

[kcghost]

I put mine up the Sunday before Thanksgiving but don't turn on the lights until the day after. I leave them up until January 1st. I used to really go whole hog on this by putting up 30 or more yard decorations as well lights around the windows as well as the Xmas tree. But as we have gotten older and the family is spread out I just put up ten ornaments in the yard and call it a day,

 

[georged]

 

[jaytex1969]

I feel (insert holiday) should be limited to the period of 10 days before until 5 days after the actual date.

I can do without the constant, revolving cycle of manufactured frivolity and the near continual stream of crap marketing that goes with.

That said, I'm glad you find enjoyment in those things. I will get by because eggnog.

 

[STP]

I feel (insert holiday) should be limited to the period of 10 days before until 5 days after the actual date.

I can do without the constant, revolving cycle of manufactured frivolity and the near continual stream of crap marketing that goes with.

That said, I'm glad you find enjoyment in those things. I will get by because eggnog.


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I hate the marketing and commercialization too, which creates a dichotomy. Decorating the house (inside) is just for personal family enjoyment. We appreciate the lights, candles, colors, and overall festive environment. We will not turn on the outdoor lights until after Thanksgiving so as to not Griswold the neighbors... Ha.

 

[daveinlax]

We loved decorating the house for the holidays but now we spend the winter in the warm sunny southwest desert where it's hard to get in the holiday spirit.?

 

[BROBS]

Our cats would murder all that shit

 

[Ctbill]

Thanksgiving weekend - Up (not before)
New Years Day - down (not after)
Love the season!

 

[BROBS]

Thanksgiving weekend - Up (not before)
New Years Day - down (not after)
Love the season!

New Year’s Day is too early. Supposed to be after the Epiphany FYI (1-6)

 

[Country Bladesmith]

I’m honestly kind of a humbug when it comes to putting all that stuff up. I do it anyway because the wife wants me to. I draw the line at Christmas lights though. I don’t do lights on the house. I do admit though, that it probably wouldn’t feel very “Christmasy” without some of the holiday accoutrements that I cuss about putting out. I guess we struck some sort of a balance here. She still calls me “Scrooge” and “Grinch” though.

 

[FurCoat]

Thanksgiving weekend - Up (not before)
New Years Day - down (not after)
Love the season!

+1 That's my routine also.

 

[Ctbill]

New Year’s Day is too early. Supposed to be after the Epiphany FYI (1-6)

BUT...
This has always been one of my hangover cures...
Steely Dan playing, and taking down Christmas stuff...
The tradition does, and will, continue...for me!
(religious calendars and our commercial calendar don’t always meet nicely in the second millennia...)

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Friday or Saturday after Thanksgiving - up it goes, other things start to trickle about the house, Christmas LPs and CDs are enjoyed.

Whenever we get around to it in January it comes down, but we get used to it being on and with really cold weather the fireplace is lit just about every night in January and many weekend afternoons, heck even Sunday morning, and we just keep enjoying the heck out of the fireplace/tree combination (and with the empty nest, we haven't had our elves to whom we can assign the task of putting stuff away, lol).

 

[Casual]

I draw the line at Christmas lights though. I don’t do lights on the house.

I wanted to be able to join in the neighbourhood celebration using the least effort, so I replaced our outdoor lights with philips Hue lights. So now at Christmas I can just hit a button on the phone and they turn red and green.