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when do you decorate xmas
Haing sorted out the type of tree when do you start decorating for
christmas. I do it on or around the 8th of December, we always were off school on that day and my Mum let us get the stuff down from the attic and start. Emer. |
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DH always starts over Thanksgiving weekend. When I lived alone, I
decorated whenever I felt like it and had the time. It took even longer for me to feel like putting away decorations then. emer wrote: Haing sorted out the type of tree when do you start decorating for christmas. I do it on or around the 8th of December, we always were off school on that day and my Mum let us get the stuff down from the attic and start. -- Brenda Lewis WIP: "Pink Baby" photo frame, Candamar |
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That is a contentious question in our household. Once Thanksgiving is over
MIL starts asking when we willl decorate. Given my druthers, I would like to do it about a week before Christmas, and then take it down on New Years Day. DH goes with the flow. I remember my mother doing the decorating a week before the big day, then it was always taken down on Twelfth Night......Jan 6th. Two weeks of all that clutter is all I can take anymore; if I had my way, I would just have a small tree, forget all the garland and wreath stuff, and put up some neat things, like a Christmas Village. However an 87 yr old MIL is rather like a 7 year old kid, and likes all the lights and glitter!! Gillian the Grinch. "emer" wrote in message om... Haing sorted out the type of tree when do you start decorating for christmas. I do it on or around the 8th of December, we always were off school on that day and my Mum let us get the stuff down from the attic and start. Emer. |
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the girls and I decorate the tree in time for the oldest birthday (Dec 13)
and take it down after the youngest bday (Jan 5).. DH is currently out of country, not that he helps much anyway!! So might put it up sooner. aftera few more ornaments are made. Donna in SC |
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emer wrote:
Haing sorted out the type of tree when do you start decorating for christmas. I do it on or around the 8th of December, we always were off school on that day and my Mum let us get the stuff down from the attic and start. Emer. We put up the kissmoose lights yesterday. Other than more and more lights, that's all the decorating we intend to do. Anything else is just a cat toy. -georg |
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Usually start getting stuff down from the attic about Dec 5-15th, but
the tree doesn't happen until the 23rd at the earliest...and stays up until Jan 6th (though sometimes the 5th is close enough, depending on what family schedule is like, what date falls on a weekend, etc.) if it's a "cut" tree. If it's a "bag and ball" (i.e., live) tree it's only in the 24th to 28th. But we're running out of space to plant 'em! Sue |
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Wreath goes up the day the Boy Scouts deliver it! anything else - not
really! Cheryl On 12/1/03 10:15 AM, in article , "Gillian Murray" wrote: That is a contentious question in our household. Once Thanksgiving is over MIL starts asking when we willl decorate. Given my druthers, I would like to do it about a week before Christmas, and then take it down on New Years Day. DH goes with the flow. I remember my mother doing the decorating a week before the big day, then it was always taken down on Twelfth Night......Jan 6th. Two weeks of all that clutter is all I can take anymore; if I had my way, I would just have a small tree, forget all the garland and wreath stuff, and put up some neat things, like a Christmas Village. However an 87 yr old MIL is rather like a 7 year old kid, and likes all the lights and glitter!! Gillian the Grinch. "emer" wrote in message om... Haing sorted out the type of tree when do you start decorating for christmas. I do it on or around the 8th of December, we always were off school on that day and my Mum let us get the stuff down from the attic and start. Emer. |
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Tia Mary-remove nekoluvr to reply opined thusly:
From: (emer) Haing sorted out the type of tree when do you start decorating for christmas. .......... Dare you ask??? Lesse -- DH take the week of Thanksgiving off so all of the outside is done and the lights go on by 6:00PM on thanksgiving night. Inside, I spend Friday putting away all of the T-day stuff, the autumn village and all of the other autumn decorations. That means Saturday after Thanksgiving -- regardless of the date -- is when we start to decorate the inside of the house. [snipped] The Griswalds down the street have had their 3.78 million mini-lights up and on for at least a week now. After deep discussions with himself, we plan on decorating for the season this year for a change. I shall put a nicely embellished sign on my door reading: "Saturnalia pygarum vapularum habete." (Have a kick-ass Saturnalia). --Regards --Anne |
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I don't usually have a tree, although I decorate usually a couple of weeks in
advance. No room for a tree. This year I will likely decorate on December 10, because I am having Xmas company that week. I visit the family farm for Xmas. Usually we chop a tree from the woods, and get the tree up on the 24th. The kids decorate it while my brothers finish Xmas shopping. My brother gets home at 5:30, we eat dinner at 6, my brother finishes wrapping at 6:59, and we open the gifts at around 7, or when the dishes are done, whichever comes first. The kids leave on the 25th, we take the tree down on the 26th before we leave for home, because my mother is getting rather old now, and has trouble with jobs like that. We went to a gift exchange this year, in which we only exchange one gift with one other person in the family, which is a lot less pressured, but removes some of the suspense of whether my brother will be finished wrapping in time or not. Dora |
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