Post by curbsideprophet on Nov 29, 2015 21:35:46 GMT -5
who has not put up a single holiday decoration yet?
We have been out of town and just got back today. We also get a real tree, so I have no desire to get it in November. It seems like everyone else is already done decorating for Christmas.
Ours is done but it's pretty minimal. I live with a 2 year old Grabby McGrabberson so I only decorated my height or above...lol.
I also like more winter stuff I don't have to take down until March. Other than tree ornaments and stockings I think I only own one actual Christmas item.
I also do not want a tree in November. It'll be crusty before Christmas! We're going next week.
Post by Velar Fricative on Nov 29, 2015 21:42:55 GMT -5
I just went shopping for a few small indoor decorations. We are doing everything else this coming weekend. I don't mind either way but putting everything up around Thanksgiving is something DH has strong feelings about not wanting to do because he will get sick of everything way before Christmas.
Here. My H feels strongly about no Christmas before Thanksgiving (really, his birthday, which is Nov 25). And I've been sick as a dog for the last week, still am. But the boxes have been brought down from the attic and E is going to daycare tomorrow, so I plan to decorate tomorrow.
All the bins are up from the basement and the tree is up but nothing is on it yet. That's only because I got it on Black Friday for a steal and I was excited to see how it looked. I know I'll be more than ready to take it all down soon enough, I really don't like doing it too early. My hard line is advent, I won't do a thing till advent starts, and that's today.
Not one here. DH is the grinch, but he fakes it for me and in return we wait until a week or 10 days before Christmas to decorate so he doesn't have to deal with a month+ of xmas.
We just put away the roasting pan, carving knife, and table leaves yesterday. I need a few days to recover from that.
I was driving through our neighborhood last night and thinking that the houses with lights up already must not have hosted Thanksgiving. And then there's the neighbors who pay someone to do the decorating.
Post by matildasun on Nov 29, 2015 22:13:24 GMT -5
I won't even think about starting before 12/1 and that will just be to get the advent calendars started. We will get a wreath either this coming weekend or the next one, and we won't get a tree until closer to Christmas.
Nothing here and we don't have the thanksgiving excuse. I'm just finding it hard to motivate myself and our apartment is too small to have anything that isn't toddler tornado proof. Well likely put up a tree on dec 22 when sil comes and take it down dec 27 when she leaves. I figure 3 adults can keep 1 toddler from wreaking havoc on it?
I was planning to decorate while DD is at school tomorrow but instead I'm going to clean the house (it's a wreck after having dd home for so many days straight) and hopefully sort through some of the bins. I'll decorate on Wednesday when she's at school again.
I pretty much don't leave the house for the entire 4 day weekend so it is the perfect time to decorate. If we traveled it might be different. It takes most of the weekend to get the house put back together from Thanksgiving and get all the decorations up. Since it takes so long I want to enjoy it as long as possible.
Post by redheadbaker on Nov 29, 2015 22:39:28 GMT -5
We always get our real tree and put it up the weekend after Thanksgiving. Especially this year, we are busy the entire first weekend in December (DS won't even be home), and waiting until the week after just feels "too late."