Ha! My Christmas decoration ( singular) , a doorknob hanger, is in a plastic shopping bag on a clothes hanger in my closet. Oh! I forgot, one light strand is still in the window.
What if it’s a closet in the basement?
Oh the dilemma!
That’s the Christmas stuff. I also have a few racks hanging from the garage ceiling. Summer and Halloween stuff goes there. Petrified to walk under them.
Yeah right, not dumb enough to tell the crooks where to beeline to.
They want my holiday decorations they’ll have to dig past the cash and gold coins to find it.
@TheCO2 I have to respectfully, but vehemently, disagree. While decorating for Christmas may have waned some, my personal observation is that decorating for Halloween in 2017 is exponentially greater than the 1960’s.
And now that I think of it, nobody was doing those elaborate music/light show synchronizations in the 60’s. While perhaps fewer people decorate, some of those that do are quite “enthusiastic”.
@DrWorm I do like some of the displays, and it is fun to drive around and look at xmas lights, but the whole synchronization thing is a little overkill, for any holiday. Some people go way too far, especially when there are decorations practically sitting on top of other decorations, all over the yard.
I have never been one to decorate, but if my someone at my house wants to, I am not going to stop them (unless it get to the overkill point).
@TheCO2 People who decorate for outside viewers, excluding a few hypercompetitive clowns, are sharing something cool and wonderful. The response is up to the beholder, but in my mind while I’m walking or driving and seeing decorations that obviously took effort to put up and maintain, or even someone who bothered to put a single strand of twinkle lights in their window or around a porch post, is a “Thank you for taking the time, and sharing your spirit”.
Its a gift, you don’t have to accept it, but I happily do. Every day during the season coming home from another grey day at work, driving by pools of light and color, glitter, sparkles and strobes, trees and ornaments and inflatable thingies. I love it all and by the time I get home I’m actually refreshed and happy again.
@duodec A local businessman really goes wild with his decorations. He won the national Christmas house decorating competition and a $50,000 prize from ABC a couple years ago. I wouldn’t want to be his neighbor, but I sure do enjoy going looking at his place. If you want to see any of his displays just look for Fred Loya Christmas decorations on YouTube. Since we’re coming up on Halloween and I refuse to celebrate Christmas before Thanksgiving I’ll share one of my favorite Halloween house decorations. I like Halloween better than Christmas anyway.
@moondrake Looks fun! Took me back to when Ghostbusters was a new movie, and remembering how fun that was too. See, decorations can make those you share it with happy!
We just moved states and since one kid went to college we downsized from a 3 BR w TONS of storage (3 linen closets for example) to a 2 BR w very little storage. So much of our stuff was stored on Letitgo, Craiglist and Goodwill before we moved.
one beer box holds the tree decorations including the skirt and lights, stockings, a wooden placard, and my santa nesting dolls & the stand sits on top of it in one of our very small closets. (that i am extremely grateful for.) everything but the skirt, stand, and stockings are hand me downs and i had the skirt & stockings made by a woman on ebay.
we also have one of those plastic pumpkins with the handle to put candy in around halloween that sits in the tree stand. this year we also bought two very small light up jackolanterns as well as a happy halloween banner and a paper bat at target, so i’ll have to find room for that stuff pretty soon i suppose.
we do have warm white string lights up year round around the perimeter of our living room tho. 2.99 on etsy! several modes although we just like the steady on. we turn them on and off with alexa
@jerk_nugget I put two long strings of icicle lights around the fence in my front yard. I have them on a power strip, and turn them on when I want to be out front at night. It provides warm indirect lighting for the entire front yard, making it welcoming to guests arriving after dark, and safer for wee hour doggie potty breaks.
@moondrake i love seeing outdoor lights like that year round especially after the holidays are over - here in boston it’s so gray for so long, it warms it up a little.
I have no idea where my wife stores all that stuff, and furthermore, I have no desire to find out. It just “magically” shows up at various appointed times.
Came home from work this morning and there’s a thing dressed in pumpkin colored clothing hanging on the front door. It resembles a strange hybrid of Raggedy Ann with a Cabbage Patch Kid. It wasn’t there last night when I left.
@infornography
Visitor: Cool hutch. What’s in there?
You: Sorry, mate. I can’t open it until after Thanksgiving.
Visitor: (I’m gonna look in that damn hutch…)
I don’t own any holiday decorations, period. I get it’s fun for some people, but the idea of taking time to put it all up and take it down as well as dedicating space to storing it just makes no sense to me.
@Kabn I get that, but for me holidays are about breaking up the monotony. It’s not just Tuesday, it’s Mardi Gras. It’s not just another Monday, it’s Christmas. Since my mom and best friend died I don’t feel much like decorating or cooking holiday meals by myself for just me. But I enjoy seeing other people’s decorations and enthusiasm.
@moondrake If you put up exterior decor its not just for you. You’re sharing it with everyone who sees it, driving or walking by. Maybe making their day just a bit better
@duodec we have this one little house with a sunroom or three season porch or something a few door down across the street. each year they’ve put all white lighted decorations inside and out for xmas and i look forward to it every year.
@Kabn my partner is the same as you, with xmas especially. if i wasn’t around i know he wouldn’t do a thing. he always moans and groans about getting a tree, because he’d rather i get something artificial and i find that unacceptable. i think my dad would be the same way, but they’re both good sports and help when asked. …except my partner will put off ‘remembering’ to take the tree downstairs to the trash. which is fine actually, because i’ve discovered it goes out our third story kitchen window just fine
@jerk_nugget I used to lead our department to the win every year in the Christmas tree decorating contest at City Hall. My main secret was limited palette, two to three colors. Then of course every tree had a theme. The one I liked best was the Noah’s Ark theme. I made a 3d cardboard Noah’s Ark that we put at the top of the tree. We encircled the tree with twined blue and silver Garland as rising waters. We made raindrops out of clusters of small blue and silver ornaments. And then hung dozens of Beanie Babies (one staffer collected them) climbing two by two up the garland toward the ark. It was super cute.
Attic, mostly. We have a ton of Christmas decor, much of which we can’t use in our townhouse but keep anyway. Its in the attic with the tree. Some special pieces are in boxes high up in closet shelves where the climate is better controlled.
Attic but I can’t go up there cause last time I went to get the decorations I may have stept on a loose not nailed in floor board and went threw the floor into my ceiling in my bedroom LOL
My neighbors still have Christmas lights up. 2012 vintage, I believe.
Old farm house 1880 Cellar often gets wet everytime it rains hard. So can’t store anything down there
Ha! My Christmas decoration ( singular) , a doorknob hanger, is in a plastic shopping bag on a clothes hanger in my closet. Oh! I forgot, one light strand is still in the window.
@davido my bells are still on my door lol!
What if it’s a closet in the basement?
Oh the dilemma!
That’s the Christmas stuff. I also have a few racks hanging from the garage ceiling. Summer and Halloween stuff goes there. Petrified to walk under them.
Yeah right, not dumb enough to tell the crooks where to beeline to.
They want my holiday decorations they’ll have to dig past the cash and gold coins to find it.
Bah humbug!
@KMakato
Doesn’t storing all those Bah’s and Humbug’s take up a lot of space?
/giphy bad humbug
@f00l
/giphy meh humbug
People still decorate? That’s so 1960’s.
@TheCO2 I have to respectfully, but vehemently, disagree. While decorating for Christmas may have waned some, my personal observation is that decorating for Halloween in 2017 is exponentially greater than the 1960’s.
And now that I think of it, nobody was doing those elaborate music/light show synchronizations in the 60’s. While perhaps fewer people decorate, some of those that do are quite “enthusiastic”.
@DrWorm I do like some of the displays, and it is fun to drive around and look at xmas lights, but the whole synchronization thing is a little overkill, for any holiday. Some people go way too far, especially when there are decorations practically sitting on top of other decorations, all over the yard.
I have never been one to decorate, but if my someone at my house wants to, I am not going to stop them (unless it get to the overkill point).
@TheCO2 People who decorate for outside viewers, excluding a few hypercompetitive clowns, are sharing something cool and wonderful. The response is up to the beholder, but in my mind while I’m walking or driving and seeing decorations that obviously took effort to put up and maintain, or even someone who bothered to put a single strand of twinkle lights in their window or around a porch post, is a “Thank you for taking the time, and sharing your spirit”.
Its a gift, you don’t have to accept it, but I happily do. Every day during the season coming home from another grey day at work, driving by pools of light and color, glitter, sparkles and strobes, trees and ornaments and inflatable thingies. I love it all and by the time I get home I’m actually refreshed and happy again.
@duodec A local businessman really goes wild with his decorations. He won the national Christmas house decorating competition and a $50,000 prize from ABC a couple years ago. I wouldn’t want to be his neighbor, but I sure do enjoy going looking at his place. If you want to see any of his displays just look for Fred Loya Christmas decorations on YouTube. Since we’re coming up on Halloween and I refuse to celebrate Christmas before Thanksgiving I’ll share one of my favorite Halloween house decorations. I like Halloween better than Christmas anyway.
@moondrake Looks fun! Took me back to when Ghostbusters was a new movie, and remembering how fun that was too. See, decorations can make those you share it with happy!
The guest bedroom is a sort of melange of holiday themes.
We just moved states and since one kid went to college we downsized from a 3 BR w TONS of storage (3 linen closets for example) to a 2 BR w very little storage. So much of our stuff was stored on Letitgo, Craiglist and Goodwill before we moved.
Too many years of retail… no decorations at my house.
one beer box holds the tree decorations including the skirt and lights, stockings, a wooden placard, and my santa nesting dolls & the stand sits on top of it in one of our very small closets. (that i am extremely grateful for.) everything but the skirt, stand, and stockings are hand me downs and i had the skirt & stockings made by a woman on ebay.
we also have one of those plastic pumpkins with the handle to put candy in around halloween that sits in the tree stand. this year we also bought two very small light up jackolanterns as well as a happy halloween banner and a paper bat at target, so i’ll have to find room for that stuff pretty soon i suppose.
we do have warm white string lights up year round around the perimeter of our living room tho. 2.99 on etsy! several modes although we just like the steady on. we turn them on and off with alexa
@jerk_nugget I put two long strings of icicle lights around the fence in my front yard. I have them on a power strip, and turn them on when I want to be out front at night. It provides warm indirect lighting for the entire front yard, making it welcoming to guests arriving after dark, and safer for wee hour doggie potty breaks.
@moondrake i love seeing outdoor lights like that year round
especially after the holidays are over - here in boston it’s so gray for so long, it warms it up a little.
I have no idea where my wife stores all that stuff, and furthermore, I have no desire to find out. It just “magically” shows up at various appointed times.
Came home from work this morning and there’s a thing dressed in pumpkin colored clothing hanging on the front door. It resembles a strange hybrid of Raggedy Ann with a Cabbage Patch Kid. It wasn’t there last night when I left.
Sometimes ignorance truly is bliss!
I built a Christmas Tree hutch. My tree lives in the living room all year, but I only open it after Thanksgiving and close it again in January.
@infornography
Visitor: Cool hutch. What’s in there?
You: Sorry, mate. I can’t open it until after Thanksgiving.
Visitor: (I’m gonna look in that damn hutch…)
@medz
Some in a closet, some in the garage, some in the pole barn above the workshop… we have too much crap.
I don’t own any holiday decorations, period. I get it’s fun for some people, but the idea of taking time to put it all up and take it down as well as dedicating space to storing it just makes no sense to me.
@Kabn I get that, but for me holidays are about breaking up the monotony. It’s not just Tuesday, it’s Mardi Gras. It’s not just another Monday, it’s Christmas. Since my mom and best friend died I don’t feel much like decorating or cooking holiday meals by myself for just me. But I enjoy seeing other people’s decorations and enthusiasm.
@moondrake If you put up exterior decor its not just for you. You’re sharing it with everyone who sees it, driving or walking by. Maybe making their day just a bit better
@duodec we have this one little house with a sunroom or three season porch or something a few door down across the street. each year they’ve put all white lighted decorations inside and out for xmas and i look forward to it every year.
@Kabn my partner is the same as you, with xmas especially. if i wasn’t around i know he wouldn’t do a thing. he always moans and groans about getting a tree, because he’d rather i get something artificial and i find that unacceptable. i think my dad would be the same way, but they’re both good sports and help when asked. …except my partner will put off ‘remembering’ to take the tree downstairs to the trash. which is fine actually, because i’ve discovered it goes out our third story kitchen window just fine
@jerk_nugget I used to lead our department to the win every year in the Christmas tree decorating contest at City Hall. My main secret was limited palette, two to three colors. Then of course every tree had a theme. The one I liked best was the Noah’s Ark theme. I made a 3d cardboard Noah’s Ark that we put at the top of the tree. We encircled the tree with twined blue and silver Garland as rising waters. We made raindrops out of clusters of small blue and silver ornaments. And then hung dozens of Beanie Babies (one staffer collected them) climbing two by two up the garland toward the ark. It was super cute.
Attic, mostly. We have a ton of Christmas decor, much of which we can’t use in our townhouse but keep anyway. Its in the attic with the tree. Some special pieces are in boxes high up in closet shelves where the climate is better controlled.
Attic but I can’t go up there cause last time I went to get the decorations I may have stept on a loose not nailed in floor board and went threw the floor into my ceiling in my bedroom LOL