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Christmas???
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 10:49 pm
by stormy
hey all on to happier subject. when do u all plan to start decorating????? i will be gone for turkey day and leaving the week after next, soooooooo i will start decorating this week-end. i know i am crazy but i want it done before i leave, so i dont have to do it when i get back. i just love christmas.
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 10:53 pm
by StormCrazyIowan
He he he, so do I!! I probably won't decorate until right after thanksgiving, but I am already listening to the Christmas music!!! And the day I come across some Egg Nog, a carton is sooo mine!!

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 10:54 pm
by Josephine96
I live on the 3rd floor of my apartment building so the decorations really won't be happening here.

I miss decorating. I don't even think I'll even have a tree.. It's gonna be pleasent here but kinda sad too

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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 10:58 pm
by Lindaloo
I usually start decorating for Christmas around the 5th. I have added more to my outside decorations this year. I have been buying Nativity pieces ALL year. I will have a big nativity display along with my reindeer, outside tree, lighted Christmas gifts, icicle lights, big Christmas star and my animated Santa and his sleigh with the reindeer. I LOVE Christmas.
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 11:04 pm
by ameriwx2003
I will start decorating right after Turkey Day .One day to get all the decorations ready and one day to get them up:):). I love Christmas time:):)
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 11:08 pm
by stormy
o jose i feel sorry for u. buy a real small tree or some lights. yes i have seen the eggnog and last nite i bought some, my weight does not need this but i love it. lindaloo my daughter has talked my husband into lights this year. i have 5 reindeer and 12 candycanes i made out of wood and that is my outdoors, but wait, now i am adding lights and what else i see. o and a big santa.
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 11:10 pm
by AussieMark
We usually do it the first weekend of December.
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 11:16 pm
by StormCrazyIowan
If my mom had her way we wouldnt at all!!! Bah humbug, that is her attitude, but I don't let it fly! LOL
JOHN!!! You have to have some kind of decorations!! Do what I do, hang lights inside your house!!! And get a mini tree!

Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 12:12 am
by streetsoldier
...humbug...
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 7:30 am
by azskyman
We have to have our tree (an artificial one, of course) up by November 20th. Granddaughter Emma will be staying with us that weekend.
Whoa!!!! That's less than two weeks away!
azskyman
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 7:45 am
by azsnowman
Well.......I'm gonna start THIS weekend with the outside light display, it takes me about 2 weeks to get everything hung. We go out the day after Thanksgiving with our friends from Tucson, go buy a Christmas tree cutting permit, pack a lunch (BEER) and hike the high country looking for that PERFECT, Blue Spruce or Douglas Fir Tree!
Dennis
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 8:09 am
by Guest
Getting the decorations out this weekend. Have to finish making my wooden outdoor decorations in the next two weeks. Will probably go with new lights outside.
I have to work the after Thanksgiving this year - so I won't decorate until that weekend. Put the tree up and all the indoor stuff. This season is here.
Patricia
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 8:09 am
by TexasStooge
I would start decorating...in the beginning of December.
Re: Christmas???
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 9:11 am
by stormchazer
stormy wrote:hey all on to happier subject. when do u all plan to start decorating????? i will be gone for turkey day and leaving the week after next, soooooooo i will start decorating this week-end. i know i am crazy but i want it done before i leave, so i dont have to do it when i get back. i just love christmas.
Whenever my wife tells me too!

Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 10:52 am
by DaylilyDawn
With a hyperactive three yearold grandson living with me I don't want to decorate until Dec 20. Too much stuff for him to mess with guarantees a disaster will happen. It is stressful enough without the hassle of the holidays so why torture myself by decorating early?
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 10:55 am
by LMolineux
Well decorating. It starts with small stuff around Thanksgiving. Then the major stuff 2 weeks before. But it differs every year.
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 11:12 am
by Josephine96
True... a small tree and some lights would work

I may end up doing that
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 11:33 am
by opera ghost
I'm on the second floor of an apartment building. With the chaos of moving the week before chirstmas last year and the untimely death of my artificial tree I didn't think I was going to have a christmas tree at all. I cried when I realized it just wasn't going to be- I'd always had a christmas tree from the time I can remember and it was one of the things that really made me feel at home. And here I was in this strange massive apartment (upgraded to 2 bedrooms before the wedding that summer) that didn't feel like home.. and no one understood how much that one freaking tree with all the pretty lights mattered.
I went straight to my mom's house for christmas eve from work- to open presents and my fiancee met me there grinning like a cheshire. When we all opened presents he handed me a tiny bag and everyone in the room just grinned. Inside was a fresh twig off of the christmas tree waiting at my home for me that he and his mom put up while I was at work christmas eve.... with all of the trimmings- including the family ornaments that were being passed down to my husband. I cried like a baby and refused to take it down until Februrary.
Suffice to say- I'm not sure when we'll be decorating *Laughs* Maybe Christmas Eve.
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 11:52 am
by bfez1
I put my tree up the day after Thanksgiving and decorate outside that weekend!
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 12:46 pm
by Stephanie
It's still alittle early for me. I usually do it the first weekend of December which this year is right after Thanksgiving.