🧑‍🤝‍🧑 / 🏡 Christmas Decorations. Yes, no? Inside? Out?

[TerryP]

I'm going total dick this year.

My motion detector is linked to audio. When you walk up...the lights come on. Ya want to know the song? I've been laughing...

I'm going to have a little fun this year. Yeah, spending money.

 

[rick4bama]

I'm going total dick this year.

My motion detector is linked to audio. When you walk up...the lights come on. Ya want to know the song? I've been laughing...

I'm going to have a little fun this year. Yeah, spending money.

Not done it in awhile. We should for our great grand kids. Our daughter has had the Chirstmas tree up way before Halloween. She love Halloween more. But she did it for her Grand Kids.

 

[TerryP]

Not done it in awhile. We should for our great grand kids. Our daughter has had the Chirstmas tree up way before Halloween. She love Halloween more. But she did it for her Grand Kids.

I'm not a fan of decorating. But, with mom's Lupus hitting her so badly I just want blinking lights and decorations everywhere. It'll control her 'mood.'

A friend gets off at 5 from her night shift at the hospital...she's stopping by to eat before heading home. I've got "We Are Young" on que when she walks to the front door...

On another note...the Grinch in me really hates the blow up decorations in lawns.

 

[Krimson]

I'm going total dick this year.

My motion detector is linked to audio. When you walk up...the lights come on. Ya want to know the song? I've been laughing...

I'm going to have a little fun this year. Yeah, spending money.

I don't mind the decor, it's the timing. My wife wants to decorate before Thanksgiving and I would prefer mid December. Christmas music should only be played for the week of Christmas as well imo.

My wife likes a cleaner decorating style, my kids want it to look like Christmas threw up and it usually ends up a little off both which is somehow worse than either.

Not a fan of the blow up lawn decorations either.

 

[sean]

We start putting up Christmas decorations the day after Thanksgiving (we have a little bit of Halloween and Thanksgiving decorations that we put up during their respective months, so that stuff has to come down, first).

Living room: Large Christmas tree and a ton of other stuff
Kitchen: the kitchen table and a few other things on a buffet table
Sun room: 4' BAMA tree w/BAMA train going around it.
Downstairs (extra room in the basement): Christmas village display (that I decided to change this year and make a little bit bigger)
Outside: obviously lights and lighted decorations (no blow-ups, though)

I do it mainly for my mom. She loves Christmas and loves the decorations. The living room and kitchen are hers to decorate (although I help a little bit), and the village and outside are mine to decorate. It takes a while to get it all up. And we have quite a few of those large plastic totes full of stuff. But mom likes it so that's what we do.

 

[rick4bama]

I don't mind the decor, it's the timing. My wife wants to decorate before Thanksgiving and I would prefer mid December. Christmas music should only be played for the week of Christmas as well imo.

My wife likes a cleaner decorating style, my kids want it to look like Christmas threw up and it usually ends up a little off both which is somehow worse than either.

Not a fan of the blow up lawn decorations either.

My wife next door neighbor would put up the Christmas tree the night on Christmas Eve. This was for their youngest son who was about 7-8 at the time I knew the family.

 

[alabama mike]

If it’s wasn’t for my wife, there would be no tree or a few decorations. She put things up this past week bc our 6 year old GRANDdaughter came up from Tn. with her parents. They rotate Thanksgiving and Christmas with the daughter in laws family. This year it was Thanksgiving with us. Mrs. Bamamike does it all! I did carry the tree down from upstairs but tha was my total contribution.

Christmas time is a difficult time for me bc I lost two grandmothers and my brother immediately before and after Christmas. Dealing with major depression and anxiety the past 4 years has not helped either. Hate to say it but I am just glad when it’s over.

 

[Krimson]

My wife next door neighbor would put up the Christmas tree the night on Christmas Eve. This was for their youngest son who was about 7-8 at the time I knew the family.

Now that's waiting till the last minute

 

[TerryP]

If it’s wasn’t for my wife, there would be no tree or a few decorations. She put things up this past week bc our 6 year old GRANDdaughter came up from Tn. with her parents. They rotate Thanksgiving and Christmas with the daughter in laws family. This year it was Thanksgiving with us. Mrs. Bamamike does it all! I did carry the tree down from upstairs but tha was my total contribution.

Christmas time is a difficult time for me bc I lost two grandmothers and my brother immediately before and after Christmas. Dealing with major depression and anxiety the past 4 years has not helped either. Hate to say it but I am just glad when it’s over.

Thanks for sharing.

 

[sean]

If it’s wasn’t for my wife, there would be no tree or a few decorations. She put things up this past week bc our 6 year old GRANDdaughter came up from Tn. with her parents. They rotate Thanksgiving and Christmas with the daughter in laws family. This year it was Thanksgiving with us. Mrs. Bamamike does it all! I did carry the tree down from upstairs but tha was my total contribution.

Christmas time is a difficult time for me bc I lost two grandmothers and my brother immediately before and after Christmas. Dealing with major depression and anxiety the past 4 years has not helped either. Hate to say it but I am just glad when it’s over.

I, too, have lost family members in December (dad, 2 grandparents, and 2 great-grandparents). So I know how you feel, man. I try not to think about it too much, but sometimes it all just comes flooding in all at once.

 

[ElephantStomp]

My daughter does the decorating at our house, she loves Christmas/winter. I’m not a Christmas person, so if it wasn’t for her there would be no tree or decorations up. My girlfriend is like my daughter, so her house is all decked out with decorations.

 

[footballer]

Putting your tree up on Christmas eve is a really old timey tradition.

 

[TerryP]

I don't mind the decor, it's the timing. My wife wants to decorate before Thanksgiving and I would prefer mid December. Christmas music should only be played for the week of Christmas as well imo.

At least, December 1st.

A case study and something that I can't understand.

A 'neighbor' down the street started Halloween decor in September. But, no Christmas yet?

Another has put out at least 20+ set of lights, blow up 'dolls,' and the like. They turn them on when it gets dark, but turn them off around 9ish. What's the point of putting all of that work in only to have them on two hours? It pisses me off when I hear, "the electricity bill!" My only thought is, "why did you buy the damn lights in the first place?"

I understand people leaving their porch lights on at night. Why do they do that when their yard is blown up with Christmas light?

Last, but certainly not least. The Hampton Inn up the street has a blow up Chipmonk outside. It's at least 20' high, gotta be 10' in diameter. I want to plink that nose with one of my .22's.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

We've always been understated on the outside. Two unlit wreaths with bows, with a spotlight on each of them and another spotlight shining up into the trees. We've never done any outside decorating at the lake, so now that we're here full time we brought the two old wreaths with us, and yesterday I picked up a six foot one I ordered from Lowe's to go off the back deck facing the lake (right where I hang my 6x10 flag for holidays). I'll put a spotlight on that today. My wife has a few things at two entrances. That's it for outside, no string lights.

Inside is another matter. For each season, spring (Easter), summer (Independence Day), fall (Thanksgiving) and winter (Christmas), up to 75 percent of the knickknacks and decor items disappear and are replaced by period correct items. This year has been my wife's consolidation year, keeping and tossing stuff from the two houses. She converted the house from Thanksgiving to Christmas on Saturday. 16,000 steps and 58 floors, according to her watch, and she would accept no help from this football watching slug. I made my last offer at 6:20pm. We replaced the tree this year, so I already had it up (it's undecorated at present, just lights). We'll decorate the tree together this week.