When do you decorate for Christmas?

Ronni

Ronni

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I have friends who have Christmas decorations up when they have their thanksgiving get togethers. That’s too soon for me. I feel like there should be separation between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

That said, this year I plan to decorate for Christmas this coming weekend! 😂😂 I used to wait till the middle of December, but Christmas is my favorite time of the year, and I finally decided why am I waiting? I love this season! 🎄🎄🎄🎄

So yeah, we’re having our family thanksgiving get together on Friday, and Saturday the Christmas boxes come out!! We always have a fresh tree, and we won’t put that up until probably the middle of December, but everything else is gonna be done by the end of the weekend!
 

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I decorate about two weeks before Christmas and leave the decorations up until after the Feast of the Epiphany, also known as the Feast of the Three Kings, which is January 6th. :)
 
When I get around to it? LOL It kind of depends on when DD starts her stuff, and I see her Christmas stuff out. Then I get motivated to haul my stuff out, too.

Maybe the first weekend in December this year or maybe next week? I have to work this coming weekend and Monday as well.

I have to admit that I put up fewer and fewer decorations each year, but a couple of weeks ago, I saw a 6ft pre-lit, rose gold metallic tree at Wallyworld that was positively stunning. My hovel is tiny so it wouldn't do at all, but DD found the same one in a box that's only 4ft. I had to have it. Had to. Couldn't live without it, yanno? All I have to do is find a place to put it.

When I was a kid, our tree went up on Christmas Eve and stayed up until January 6.
 
Last night (21 November) I put some small white twinkle lights in my bedroom window. They're winter cheer lights, not Christmas lights. By this time next month, the nightly darkness will be 16 hours long.

I went outside to look, and the lights can't be seen because the bright parking lot illuminator is right next to my window.

That'll learn me not to do anything like that.

Or, maybe I'll move them to another window.
 
I’d be fine with having an artificial tree (though I don’t know where we’d store it) but Ron’s insistent on a real one.

So he gets to go find one that works, and he’s really much better than I am at eyeballing shape, height etc! Then he does the lights, generic ornaments and garland, and then I follow up with the 50 year collection of personalized family ornaments.
 
I love 'deer' stuff too .... I have a stuffed 13" reindeer on my counter wearing the cutest leg warmers .. lol

My holiday decor comes out when the weather turns cold and dreary ... all the bright/shiny things put me in a good mood.
That came early this year (November).
 
Ho, ho, ho! Last Christmas I never decorated nothing! I didn't even play 1 Christmas song. Sure, I had a good Christmas without all that bother and sweat putting up all those lights. If the truth be know, I think I will scream if I have to listen to Burl Ives sing about having that "Holy, Golly Christmas" or Brenda Lee singing about "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree." Both of those songs are on my Christmas HATE List. However, Silent Night, Joy To The World and Away in a Manager is still lovely to hear.
 
I already have some decorations up and will put up the small tabletop tree soon. I celebrate with my daughter and 2 grandkids so I still enjoy Christmas and the songs. Outside lights are already on at night and it is dark in the morning when I take my son to work. I will be thinking about the dinner menu after 3 birthdays have been celebrated (one of them is mine).
 


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