Changing decor

[azsnowman]

OK....y'all are going to thing I'm NUTZ (I really am LOL!) but this weekend the summer interior deco is coming DOWN and the FALL deco is going UP! When do you change?

[Miss Mary]

Dennis - at this rate you'll be stringing up xmas lights!!!! LOL

I switch to Fall decor after Labor Day. Not the very next day but soon after.

Pace yourself Dennis! LOL

Mary

PS - one neighbor I swear lives by a calendar. The day after Thanksgiving, all their xmas lights go up - in one day. Poof - up. You blink and they're up. I picture the fall decorations all neatly packed away already, by dinnertime (not sitting in piles on the basement floor like at my house!). January 2nd, same thing - all xmas stuff just gone - poof, packed away by dinnertime. They switch to snowmans and blue decorations January 2nd. Next is Valentine's Day, then on and on.......this family is a little too uptight if you ask me! I want to secretly hide their calendar!

[angelwing]

The hubby wants to put the tree up in October, I told him go for it since I'm working 3 jobs he has the time Usually though we do start in November, but this year we want a head start

[Yankeegirl]

I will change my decor when it actually feels like fall.... maybe October??

[gtalum]

What kind of decor does one change for the season?

The only special decorations we have are for Christmas.

[angelwing]

The lady across the apartment complex from us changes her window decorations every holiday, from New Year's Day to Christmas. Right now she had Uncle Sam figures hanging in her window for Labor Day, then it'll be Vet figures for Veteran's day, Turkeys for Thanksgiving, etc. I have a fall basket that I made that I'll put out on our dining room table and put the summer one away. If I had the curtains (like my mom used to have) I'd change from the light summer ones to the fall/winter type draperies. There's a lot you can do gtalum, I grew up with a mom that changed the whole house over from Spring/Summer to Fall/Winter, from the slipcovers to the bathroom rug set Oh forget to add the flannel sheets for winter too!

[Miss Mary]

Angelwing's right, aside from the one neighbor I mentioned, my next door neighbor has at least a dozen boxes of xmas decorations. She even changes her sectional couch throw pillows! She jokes when you see the 6 or so bright red throw pillows go on her off white couch, you know xmas is coming. I wonder if she puts them back on Valentine's Day (never thought about that until now!). If my hubby had his way we'd have one holiday's decorations and only a few of them - xmas. But over the years I've added to my xmas stuff, then my mom has done this by way of gifts to my daughters and I (she has pushed them to decorate their individual rooms now too). It's all too much I say. I do wish I had pulled back from buying so much 10 years ago. I don't even put it all out now. And began giving some of it away. I have my favorite pieces (xmas) and I'll never part with them. One is a simple painted tin tabletop decoration, two green pine trees, two red reindeer. I have this decoration in every xmas card photo we take. Just a silly tradition I started. Now my motto is less is more. But that doesn't help the clutter of so many boxes in the basement (something I should go thru again, I say I will every January but I don't!).

BTW, I have half a dozen decorations for Easter and Fall now. I have remained firm and not added to these two holidays. It's tempting but I don't buy into it as much as xmas.

[angelwing]

Miss Mary, we moved from 2 houses into a one bedroom apt 9 years ago and we are still weeding out all the stuff (all our stuff was at our respective parents houses)but I am happy to say that we got all our Christmas stuff down to a tree and 2 big boxes in our Walk-in closet (which we can walk-in again...kinda )Once we move, we'll both be back in pack-rat mode again,

[Miss Mary]

Well, good for you two! We're pack rats and I like to remind this family, when we moved here, we had many empty rooms. At least 4! Then we had another baby and my in-law's gave us living room and dining room furniture (very, very generous of them, I am grateful for that), but along with all of that comes boxes and boxes of stuff, people just give you. I still laugh at when my FIL cleaned out his garage. He gave us 3 boxes of stuff - saying, oh I no longer need these things, maybe you can use them. Paint thinner, phone cables, old switch plate covers he changed to cable, etc. Guess what? We've hardly used anything from these boxes! And I want to pitch them but we have a 2 garbage can limit. Not much room for more junk. Anywho, now I look thru boxes and bags people give us (my mom usually). They don't like it when you do that! I only accept one or two items, not the typical 20 they try and pawn off on you.

I just hope I won't give stuff away to our daughters when we move to a smaller place. The nice xmas decorations maybe, but I won't stick them with junk. LOL!

Back to seasonal decor!

Mary

[O Town]

What kind of decor does one change for the season?

The only special decorations we have are for Christmas.

Your not the only one. I was thinking the same thing. I do have some Holiday things, Easter, Christmas and such, but tend to only use the Christmas decorations. We are very simple over here in this house.

[Lindaloo]

I love to decorate.

[O Town]

I love to decorate.

Us too, but only for Christmas. We do so much at Christmas I guess we make up for the rest of the year!

[Pburgh]

For fall I usually bind my ornamental grasses so they look like corn stalks and I put pumpkins in front of them. At Christmas I open a bottle of champaigne and have a ball decorating. At Easter I decorate my little Japanese maple and weeping pea trees with eggs and put a yellow wagon filled with colorful eggs in the yard. Ok that's it!!!

[Kim_in_MN]

ROFL - if I didn't have kids I wouldn't decorate at all for Christmas!

Kim

[Cookiely]

We have different door wreaths for each season. Decorate like crazy for Christmas, tree up early November (Its usually so hot, I turn the AC down low and pretend its cold and make hot chocolate).