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| Bear5 |
Posted - Aug 21 2009 : 8:43:48 PM
When do most of you ladies put out your Christmas decorations?
I am biting at the bullet!!!!!!! I have not put out Christmas decorations since 2007. My DH says that August is much too early.
Maybe so.
Marly
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| Lainey |
Posted - Sep 17 2009 : 07:30:03 AM
I'm decorated for fall right now and that will stay up until the day after Thanksgiving. The more halloween decorations go up in late Sept. and I take those down Nov. 1st. Then the day or weekend after Thanksgiving I take the rest of the fall decorations down and put up the Christmas decorations. I will take them down the day after New Years.
Farmgirl Sister #25
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| jpbluesky |
Posted - Sep 14 2009 : 2:26:47 PM
I am happy to be decorating for fall! I LOVE autumn and the dried flowers and the muted colors, and I am so happy to be leaving summer. Christmas......still a ways off in my mind!
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| Bonnie Ellis |
Posted - Sep 13 2009 : 4:36:33 PM
Oh, I almost forgot my barn collection. The biggest one I have on a table with lights inside and at Christmas I put my nativity set inside with all my farm animals outside. I have many little barns in the kitchen too.
Bonnie Ellis
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| Bonnie Ellis |
Posted - Sep 13 2009 : 4:33:27 PM
Theme decorating: I have a Scandanavian tree about 2 feet high in the living room behind the davenport. I have another 2 foot tree in the pass through between the kitchen and dining room. This is decorated on the kitchen side with lots of cooking goodies, the dining room side has bird stuff. On a shelf over the kitchen counter I have mini rollingpins and figures using rolling pins. I have the one my husband learned to bake with and one I got when I was little that says "Jesus is the bread of life". Over my art table I have a few santas and in my sewing room I have a tiny pink tree with tiny sewing stuff on it.
Obviously you can see I love to decorate.
Bonnie Ellis
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| ruenietwoshoes |
Posted - Sep 12 2009 : 07:35:20 AM
My family and I will be putting up decorations for Christmas in the end of November.
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| knitnpickinatune |
Posted - Sep 07 2009 : 08:07:26 AM
Let's see,Fall decor will go up either this week or the beginning of next week. All Hallows decor goes up Oct 1,and stays up all month. Nov rings in Fall & Turkey decor,and right after Thanksgivin' I'll be putting up Yuletide & winter decor. I used to wait till Dec 1 to decorate,but see the need to do it earlier now. I should add that in Jan the Santas & elves & such get put away but I keep Winter decor out until Feb.
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| nin1952 |
Posted - Aug 28 2009 : 3:27:41 PM
[size=2][/size=2]nin1952 I just came across this site and had to reply. My heart goes out to Louisana. So much has happened to you. You know God will bless you with a beautiful new city. Just you wait and see. I had to laugh at some of you. I feel the same way you do; I'd keep Christmas up everyday (much to my DH chagrin). I really don't decorate any other time of year, but Christmas is my favorite. So to me, the sky's the limit. When my family is gathered together on Thanksgiving day I ask my 2 S-I-L to bring my decorations from the shop out back. Then after we have finished eating, we spend some good quality time with our 2 DD's and the 4 GK's decorating the house.
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Aug 24 2009 : 10:39:28 AM
Marly, this is scary! But I can see how you would be ready to do it right now. I hope you did not lose any of your decorations. And I hope you get to start as soon as you want. When I first read this, I thought, OMG, she really is jumping the gun just a little. But then I can totally understand. So you go, girl! Decorate away! I will look forward to seeing pictures soon. I could just look at your pictures and that will be enough for me. I don't do anything anymore except a little tree. And then only for the grands.
Have fun and take lots of pics!!
Kris
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| Especially For You |
Posted - Aug 24 2009 : 10:35:31 AM
September !st I will start taking down summer stuff. Thats when I also start my fall cleaning. Then after fall cleaning I put up fall decorations. then the day after Thanksgiving I take down fall and put up CHRISTMAS!!! My poor DH just shakes his head I think he thinks I am crazy. I also change my dishes every season. I think thats what pushes him over the edge.lol
Tina |
| Cabinprincess |
Posted - Aug 24 2009 : 07:40:54 AM
Marly, you live in the state of perpetual decorating! Girl you could decorate for Christmas in July and everyone else would just join in. I LOVE your state. We were sent to Biloxi for a year and right after Christmas (which I love to decorate for) I noticed that the garland on front porches were transforming into sparkling displays of green, purple and gold. The Christmas trees were changing also. What was happening?? I stopped at a home because they were changing the Christmas lights to those three different colors and I needed to know what I was missing out on. Mardi Gras!!!!! Your celebration had spilled over the border and all the homes were competing to out do each other. That went on through to March, then we went to New Orleans and ya'll were starting on Easter. Now that same garland was brightened up with pastel bows and colored Easter Eggs and new colored lights. I think if there was not a holiday in Louisiana to decorate for you'd just make one up!! LOL
We don't do halloween so our Christmas lights start going up in Oct. on the house and by the day after Thanksgiving I go into full blown Christmas decorating so it's done by the first of Dec.
I'm sorry you missed out on your decorating because of the hurricanes. Did you lose your decorations in the storms and have to start over getting new ones??
Smiles, Melody June
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| Bear5 |
Posted - Aug 23 2009 : 2:27:06 PM
LOL Nancy. I missed decorating for Christmas four years in a row due to hurricane cleanup and rebuilding. I cannot wait to decorate. Maybe you can spend Christmas here in Louisiana. That way you won't have to decorate or me scared about it. LOL
Marly
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| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Aug 23 2009 : 2:17:26 PM
This post is scaring me!! It seems like I just got over last Christmas. yipes.
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| ddmashayekhi |
Posted - Aug 23 2009 : 12:56:02 PM
I'm putting up my autumn decorations this week. I'll add the Halloween ones to it October 1, then switch them out November 1 for Thanksgiving. All of it will come down after Thanksgiving and then Christmas goes up next. I can't wait to get my fall stuff up!
Dawn in IL |
| Bear5 |
Posted - Aug 23 2009 : 11:51:27 AM
Tina:
I do put all the Santa's in the den over the fireplace. All the snowmen go in the Living Room. I'm theme-ing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
| Especially For You |
Posted - Aug 23 2009 : 11:15:04 AM
Does any one else theme decorate? Like my kitchen is snowmen, living room is santas, dinning room angels etc, or am I the only crazy one?
Tina |
| Cheryl |
Posted - Aug 23 2009 : 05:57:51 AM
I put mine out the day after Thanksgiving. I have started getting my Halloween items in order.
Cheryl, Farmgirl Sister #48
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| Tapestry |
Posted - Aug 23 2009 : 04:37:11 AM
My DH is scrooge when it comes to Christmas decorations. He likes them sort of for about a wk. After that they can be put away as far as he's concerned. I love them! I love seeing the twinkling lights reflected in the glass of pictures hanging on our walls and our mirrors. I love to sit with all the lights off except for the warm glow of Christmas lights. If you're nuts Marly you have plenty of companionship on this forum...LOL
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| Bonnie Ellis |
Posted - Aug 22 2009 : 9:32:23 PM
I keep the Thanksgiving decorations up until Dec. 1. Then I decorate for Christmas. They come down on New Years day. Then everything is white (including snow on the ground. Feb. 1 I put up Valentines day. I like to have things up about a month.That's just the way it is. Without kids at home I need decorations. It's lonely when they live so far away.
Bonnie in Minnesota
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| Ga Girl |
Posted - Aug 22 2009 : 7:11:08 PM
Yep I usually start decorating shortly after Thanksgiving.
Karen
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| Sitnalta |
Posted - Aug 22 2009 : 5:49:07 PM
i dont start decorating for christmas til dec 1st or so. i decorted for fall yesterday but no real halloween stuff yet,
hugs
Jessie
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They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
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| Especially For You |
Posted - Aug 22 2009 : 5:09:42 PM
Marly,
"Its begining to look a lot like Christmas"! I am singing with you.lol
Tina |
| Bear5 |
Posted - Aug 22 2009 : 11:08:02 AM
Alee:
I may get the last laugh on this one. I have already decorated for Halloween. I think my husband is really worried about me. LOL
I like it when I can see he is worried about things like that that I do. ROFLOL (Rolling on the floor laughing out loud).
Marly
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| Bear5 |
Posted - Aug 22 2009 : 11:05:20 AM
Tina:
Decorating for Christmas or just starting to enjoy the music of Christmas must be a South thing. LOL After reading your post, I am now listening to CHRISTMAS MUSIC.
MARLY
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| Alee |
Posted - Aug 22 2009 : 07:58:09 AM
Marly!! You are too funny! You are skipping a few fun holidays/seasons!! Do you decorate for fall/halloween?
Alee
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| Especially For You |
Posted - Aug 22 2009 : 07:09:00 AM
I put mine up the day after Thanksgiving. But, like you I love Christmas!!!! So in September I start playing Christmas music. I only play it when DH is not home it drives him crazy when I start this early!!
Tina |
