They are up! Why take them down? If you get those outdoor lights that have thousands of colors, you can leave them up all year and just do gold lighting during the summer or white lighting, perfect. Then, if you have a fake tree, if you take all the decorations off and put the tree in the corner, it just looks like part of your living room.
@Cerridwyn I’m curious what sorts of Winter Solstice items. I’m imagining beautiful evergreen boughs, pine cones, dried fruit, shed antlers, candles, and shimmery winter baubles. Oh! a Yule log if you have a fireplace.
Amongst our Christmas decorations which range from the traditional, to the strangeness of Ninja turtles in the creche, a Toy Story -Woody puppet with a drawn on mustache who is known as Redneck Max, and a figurine of HeMan “King of The Christmas Tree” that came from the minds of our kids as they grew up, we try to celebrate the idea of love and family. Even the weird family members.
I set up a small space on my hearth for Frigga, and no one has ever even blinked an eye at it.
I have a small one bedroom. I will have a nice table runner and centerpiece only. I will not do the porch like I did for Samhain because people freak out, especially this year.
My SIL is Baptist married to my daughter who never set foot in a Christian church save for things like weddings and such.
We have our outside lights done by a local company- they put ours up last Monday. We were going to wait a while to turn them on, but since it’s all snowy here we went ahead. They look so pretty in the snow. The only reason we get them done early is because we have family members that visit for thanksgiving but we’re on our own for Christmas.
@Star2236@transplant For any given store, the first day during the season when I hear “seasonal” music is also the last day that I shop there in person. It resets reasonably cleanly at January 2. A few stores have persisted past that point, and I have put them into time out for two weeks when it happened. And yet, I still managed to succumb to ****ageddon last year. Ugh. I hope to resume avoiding it immoderately this season.
Just watched a neighbor set up his trio of illuminated white deer with their jaunty red Christmas bows around their necks.
Meanwhile, I still have corn stalks, harvest gourds & pumpkins, and a garland of autumn leaves & pinecones decorating my front porch.
It’s hard to break my family’s tradition of not decorating for Christmas until we see Macy’s Santa Claus close out the end of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. I’m not sure if that parade is getting worse each year, but it sure seems like it is. Maybe it’s just that NBC coverage sucks. The parade been relegated to background noise while Thanksgiving dinner prep is taking place and Charlie Brown jazz plays in the kitchen
@LaVikinga I agree about the parade. It’s just a thinly disguised string of advertisements and promotions; the singers are mostly unknowns from some TV show they want to promote and all the songs sound the same.
@Kyeh@LaVikinga The last amusing thing I recall seeing was when Rick Astley himself Rickrolled the broadcast coverage live and in person. That was a while back.
I’ll wait till after Thanksgiving. I usually have Thanksgiving decorations (just pumpkins) that I put up after Halloween but I never put up Halloween decorations this year.
I always say that if i win the lottery, i’m just going to have a house for each holiday that i never have to undecorate. We’ll just move from house to house throughout the year. Or visit whenever we feel like having Christmas, etc.
We have an annual tradition here that dates back to 2018. October 13th six years ago my wife and I sat across from one of her doctors and was told that she wouldn’t be expected to live until Christmas. So I decided to make the last one extra special and came up with “The Forty Days Of Christmas”. I got her a small present that she could open everyday starting on November 15th and ending on Christmas Eve (actually the Elf brings it.) We both enjoyed it and it was great watching her act like a child again. Because of that early start, I decorate the house the weekend after Halloween.
The doctor was wrong and the tradition continues this year!
@kenrose That is fantastic that the doctors were wrong. She and your family were/are incredibly lucky. I hope she is doing ok now and not having to keep doing treatment over and over and over again to stay alive. A cancer diagnosis is such an emotional earthquake with so many aftershocks.
@kenrose@mikey What a beautiful story and a beautiful tradition. You and your wife sound like amazing people! I hope we have the grace and creativity to pull something like this off if we have to face something similar.
They are up! Why take them down? If you get those outdoor lights that have thousands of colors, you can leave them up all year and just do gold lighting during the summer or white lighting, perfect. Then, if you have a fake tree, if you take all the decorations off and put the tree in the corner, it just looks like part of your living room.
I don’t put up X-MAS decorations at all; I instead put up CHRISTMAS Decorations!!
@IndifferentDude We do the weekend after Thanksgiving, which deserves its own time and decor.
@IndifferentDude
Happy holiday season to you as well.
@Somethingelse66 Merry CHRISTmas to you as well!
@IndifferentDude @Somethingelse66
@fishyfishy @Somethingelse66
Never
I don’t celebrate the Christian Holiday
Now I might put up some Winter Solstice things, but not much
@Cerridwyn You don’t have to be Christian to enjoy Christmas! Signed, an unapologetic atheist.
@PooltoyWolf 15 minutes enjoy the season I agree with you. However I’m not enjoying christmas. Hence my comment about winter solstice
@Cerridwyn I’m curious what sorts of Winter Solstice items. I’m imagining beautiful evergreen boughs, pine cones, dried fruit, shed antlers, candles, and shimmery winter baubles. Oh! a Yule log if you have a fireplace.
Amongst our Christmas decorations which range from the traditional, to the strangeness of Ninja turtles in the creche, a Toy Story -Woody puppet with a drawn on mustache who is known as Redneck Max, and a figurine of HeMan “King of The Christmas Tree” that came from the minds of our kids as they grew up, we try to celebrate the idea of love and family. Even the weird family members.
I set up a small space on my hearth for Frigga, and no one has ever even blinked an eye at it.
@LaVikinga sounds quite beautiful
I have a small one bedroom. I will have a nice table runner and centerpiece only. I will not do the porch like I did for Samhain because people freak out, especially this year.
My SIL is Baptist married to my daughter who never set foot in a Christian church save for things like weddings and such.
/youtube christians and the pagans
I will wait a week before festivus before putting the festivus pole up.
@OnionSoup Proper. But I don’t limit myself to a special season to air grievances.
@macromeh @OnionSoup
Just tag the goat…
@OnionSoup
/giphy festivus feats of strength
We have our outside lights done by a local company- they put ours up last Monday. We were going to wait a while to turn them on, but since it’s all snowy here we went ahead. They look so pretty in the snow. The only reason we get them done early is because we have family members that visit for thanksgiving but we’re on our own for Christmas.
My nephew was in the department store buying an artificial Christmas tree. The shop attendant asked him, "Are you going to put that tree up yourself?
Smiling, he replied, “Don’t be disgusting! I’m going to put it in my living room!”
@Pavlov kudos to him
Usually the weekend after Thanksgiving.
Too many years of retail… I cringe when I hear Christmas songs, I’m still in my Bah! Humbug! stage.
I did notice that Thanksgiving stuff was not heavily displayed in stores. It seemed the day after Halloween, the Christmas stuff came out.
@transplant
I used to be like that but I found myself listening to Christmas music the past couple years in my car and enjoying it.
@Star2236 @transplant For any given store, the first day during the season when I hear “seasonal” music is also the last day that I shop there in person. It resets reasonably cleanly at January 2. A few stores have persisted past that point, and I have put them into time out for two weeks when it happened. And yet, I still managed to succumb to ****ageddon last year. Ugh. I hope to resume avoiding it immoderately this season.
@transplant
This!
Never. I’m not even sending cards this year.
@lisaviolet
I guess I won’t bother checking my mail then.
Just watched a neighbor set up his trio of illuminated white deer with their jaunty red Christmas bows around their necks.
Meanwhile, I still have corn stalks, harvest gourds & pumpkins, and a garland of autumn leaves & pinecones decorating my front porch.
It’s hard to break my family’s tradition of not decorating for Christmas until we see Macy’s Santa Claus close out the end of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. I’m not sure if that parade is getting worse each year, but it sure seems like it is. Maybe it’s just that NBC coverage sucks. The parade been relegated to background noise while Thanksgiving dinner prep is taking place and Charlie Brown jazz plays in the kitchen
@LaVikinga I agree about the parade. It’s just a thinly disguised string of advertisements and promotions; the singers are mostly unknowns from some TV show they want to promote and all the songs sound the same.
@Kyeh @LaVikinga The last amusing thing I recall seeing was when Rick Astley himself Rickrolled the broadcast coverage live and in person. That was a while back.
We fly to St Lucia Christmas Day so not gonna happen.
@chienfou Best approach so far
@chienfou
…and I’m jealy.
I’ll wait till after Thanksgiving. I usually have Thanksgiving decorations (just pumpkins) that I put up after Halloween but I never put up Halloween decorations this year.
Every day is X-mas if you never take them down.
I still call them Twitter-mas decorations.
I always say that if i win the lottery, i’m just going to have a house for each holiday that i never have to undecorate. We’ll just move from house to house throughout the year. Or visit whenever we feel like having Christmas, etc.
We have an annual tradition here that dates back to 2018. October 13th six years ago my wife and I sat across from one of her doctors and was told that she wouldn’t be expected to live until Christmas. So I decided to make the last one extra special and came up with “The Forty Days Of Christmas”. I got her a small present that she could open everyday starting on November 15th and ending on Christmas Eve (actually the Elf brings it.) We both enjoyed it and it was great watching her act like a child again. Because of that early start, I decorate the house the weekend after Halloween.
The doctor was wrong and the tradition continues this year!
@kenrose Glad to hear the doctors were wrong this time.
@kenrose That is fantastic that the doctors were wrong. She and your family were/are incredibly lucky. I hope she is doing ok now and not having to keep doing treatment over and over and over again to stay alive. A cancer diagnosis is such an emotional earthquake with so many aftershocks.
@kenrose I love this story!
@kenrose @mikey What a beautiful story and a beautiful tradition. You and your wife sound like amazing people! I hope we have the grace and creativity to pull something like this off if we have to face something similar.