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Do you decorate for holidays?
If so, do you go all out or are you a minimalist?
Do you decorate for all holidays or just certain ones?
Me? No. Pretty much not at all. We stuck stockings to the wall last year because we have them and I like that winter candle that Bath&BodyWorks sells, but those are my limits.
It goes without saying that I do not even consider decorating for any other holidays.
eta: We carved a pumpkin this year for Halloween, but we left it at someone else's house for the holiday.
I agree with everything that muddled said. You should listen to her. -ESDReturns
Re: Do you decorate for holidays?
Ohhh I love me some Christmas decorations and lights. I've toned it down over the years. Our tree was so big last year that it barely fit in our apartment. We're getting one this year, but definitely a lot smaller. I also was lazy last year and never took down the white lights on our porch, so those are ready to go. Other than a tree and the outside lights, I sometimes will make a wreath, but that's it. We have no where to hang our stockings so we just tack them to the wall - kind of tacky!
Here's the tree from last year (Willow is in there to show scale):
I decorate for Oct./Nov. Halloween/thanksgiving (my favorie is Halloween)
I also decorate inside and out for xmas...love it!!!
Last year, no. We didn't even have a tree. I'm feeling a little more jolly this year, so I think I'll probably put everything out.
Other holidays, no. I like the stuff I have put up and I'm going to keep it.
No we don't decorate. We aren't at our house for Thanksgiving or Christmas so it doesn't really make sense. Plus we live in a little apartment so there is no room for a tree and no where to hang stockings.
When we get a house I want to have simple lights on the outside of the house, have a tree and decorate the inside of the house. Especially when we have kids.
We normally do a tree and some outside lights.
Anyone with any curious-young-toddler + Christmas tree coexistence tips, please send 'em my way!
I would not call it decorating.
We did put up a small Christmas tree a couple Christmases ago, but skipped it other years. We are sticking around this year for Christmas so maybe, if DH decides he wants one. I don't really care. Even when we did have the tree, I was happy that DH took over the design details.
We carved a couple pumpkins when we first started dating, but that was a date night kind of thing. We have never decorated for Halloween aside from that. Never decorated for any other holiday.
I really don't like "stuff", and decorating to me means more "stuff" - more stuff to put up, more stuff to store, more stuff to take up room, more stuff to distract.
I also am really not very domestically inclined and decorating to me seems to be a very domestic thing to do, ha.
When we had our cat (and I think my parents did it when we were younger as well but I don't remember, obviously) we had a bunch of bells hung on ribbons that exclusively went on the bottom of the tree. If the tree is low enough, they won't get too far into the tree before they brush up against one. You just need to be paying enough attention to catch the bells ringing.
in the basement
That's pretty clever. Now I wonder, what do I do if all I ever hear is the constant din of jingle-bells from sunup to sundown the whole month of December?
We decorate for Christmas - a tree, a wreath, a stocking hanger and a few other things. Also, outside lights.
I have Halloween decorations (just a few) that I really like but I never got them out this year.
Me, I do!
I put out a couple Halloween Decorations and a harvest wreath that I leave up until after Thanksgiving, and then I go insane at Christmas. I love decorating for it, and poor DH just gets roped into helping me with lights. This year I'm particularly excited because my DD is here, of course she's to little to know what's going on lol.
We'll probably put up the tree and lights once we get back from our Thanksgiving trip.
We put it all in our second bedroom's closet. It actually neatly fits into a (very large) rubbermaid bin.
We have a ridiculously large attic (upstairs of a Cape that's not finished) and also a lot of unusable for anything but storage space in our basement.
I decorate, but really only for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. I have an Easter wreath that I put on the front door and that's about the extent of it.
For Halloween/Thanksgiving I do a harvest theme so I can leave everything up longer. Pumpkins on the front porch, a wreath on the door, some scattered candles and gourds throughout the living areas. For Christmas, I like a classic look, so I have a white-lighted/red-ribboned wreath on every front window and the front door, and a white-lighted/red-ribboned garland around the front door. I also decorate the hell out of my mantel. There are a few things scattered throughout the living area as well - candles and other holiday knickknacks.
Some of my holiday decor has been handed down from my mom, so it has sentimental value. I keep all the nice stuff in a closet and the greenery is kept in the shed (or garage if I have one).
I did in college because I was the RA and my room was always open so I figured why not, be festive.
When I was married we spent holidays elsewhere, with family, so no.
This year I ordered a wreath and I'll be hanging stockings on the mantel because I now have a fireplace, yay, but I'm not sure how all-out I'll go. I want to get a little tree and see how the cat does with it. Maybe some Christmas lights on my deck. I don't think I'll ever be a huge holiday decorator, but a few festive things are fun.
I decorate a lot, but all our decorations for Christmas fit into 3 tubs, and the halloween stuff is one smallish box. I do a lot of fabric and paper. For halloween for instance, I have dozens of bats I cut out of regular old printer paper and painted with black acrylic to hang in the windows.
And I'm totally in love with the jingle bell baby idea. Until now our leading solutions were no tree or just put it in the pack & play, heh.
We're exactly the same! I want to take advantage of the cathedral ceilings and DH would be happy with a Charlie Brown tree. We finally compromised on white lights on the tree and colored lights outside. He thinks white lights look more sophisticated. I say who cares? I want the house to look fun!