Decorating for Christmas...

[Cribal]

I normally decorate right after Thanksgiving. I didn't do anything last year b/c we were moving into our new house and we still had boxes to unpack so I didn't want to mess with it. We live a half mile off the rd. so I doubt that I will be decorating the outside. I would love to but I'm not going to spend all that time and no one be able to see it. Our next ouse I want to be on a main rd. so I have a reason to decorate outside.

[2tiredmom]

We decorate day after Thanksgiving. Just inside the outside doesn't get it.

[Lindsey]

I decorate my parents house as soon as i get there! I'm usually home about a week and a half or two weeks before christmas. I'm the only christmasy person in the family so i set up the tree and do all the decorating inside, and I go outside and do a lot of work out there, but I have to get on my dad's case to put lights around the roof because he doesn't want me up there. Then I go inside and make a fire and drink hot chocolate or apple cider all by myself and look at all my work lol Oh and I also listen to christmas carols the whole time I'm doing it! Everyone else just thinks I'm crazy.

[Mandy]

We usually start decorating on dec. 6th. The outside gets some, not a whole lot because i don't like to "overdo" it... but i love pretty lights and decorations if it's done properly.
So many times we see deco's and lights that look like they have just been thrown against the walls, it gives a very untidy impression, and i don't like that, it's almost a shame and waste of all the pretty stuff.

[Lindsey]

Originally Posted by Mandy

So many times we see deco's and lights that look like they have just been thrown against the walls, it gives a very untidy impression, and i don't like that, it's almost a shame and waste of all the pretty stuff.

Oh I agree! One of my friends is like that, their house is always just thrown together. There's a whole lot of lights, but they just don't fit. They're the kind of people who just throw the lights wherever, like if it's too short to go around the top of the house, but too long to just do one side (they live on a corner), they'll just put it across one side, and then whatever's left over they'll just sling over one window or something, when the windows are all the same size and evenly spaced. Drives me nuts!

For us it's become a tradition to decorate the day after Thanksgiving. We get up super early and bring down boxes from the attic...and split duties. We put Christmas music on and work the whole day. It's soooo fun Before we got married, my (now) husband would always go to my parents house and help us... so now that we're married we spend Thanksgiving with them and help them out the next day. Since our apartment is kinda small, we usually do it before we go for Thanksgiving. Anyway, it's a really fun time for us. My dad, both grandpas, brother, and husband work on the outside, and my mom, me, and both grandmas take the inside. Then for dinner we eat what was left of the turkey and any other leftover we can find. Good times

[DianaB]

A few years ago I decorated right after Christmas because I had a Christmas party here at the house in early December. I felt like I was so much better organized that year that I'm thinking that I'm going to try and do it again this year. (I'm trying to be better organized so my stress level isn't so bad!!) Usually we decorate the second week or so before Christmas which is hard to do because I have lots and lots of decorations!! I collect Hallmark ornaments and have a bazillion of them!! My tree is so full of ornaments but is really beautiful. Then it takes forever to take it down and put away!! I usually leave my tree up until the middle of January so that I can enjoy my collection and take it down when I'm more relaxed.

We, too, live about 1/4 mile from the road, but my 14 year-old daughter likes to have lights outside the house, so she and her dad usually put a few up. Nobody can see them unless they're coming to the house, but, oh well, it makes her happy.

[rivermom]

Originally Posted by Mandy

We usually start decorating on dec. 6th. The outside gets some, not a whole lot because i don't like to "overdo" it... but i love pretty lights and decorations if it's done properly.
So many times we see deco's and lights that look like they have just been thrown against the walls, it gives a very untidy impression, and i don't like that, it's almost a shame and waste of all the pretty stuff.

LOL!! Those houses with the lights like that are those same people who keep their lights up year round!! hahahahahaa

Probably the first week of December I will begin to decorate. Just the inside though. To me honestly though it can be such a pain in the ass. Gotta go up in the attic to haul all the boxes down. (Theres gobs and gobs of boxes too, ugh) Then it takes days to set it all out...Then before I know it I have to take it all down and rebox it, then stash it back into the attic. I really need to be hit hard with that festive bug before I become excited to decorate.

[Janet]

Same here Sheryl, everything is in the attic, haul it down, drag it back up. It is a pain, but I'll keep doing it for my son. Once he leaves and goes out on his own, I won't decorate. I'll probably just use a table top tree.

[khardy57]

Last year I had everything up Thanksgiving Day because EVERYONE came to my house for Thanksgiving and I needed the boost. I may do the same thing this year because they're all (the whole family) coming again this year. I want it this way because I'm the only one who doesn't have young children (mine are grown) and it makes it easier on my parents to have it here instead of their house.

Besides this is my first year in my new house and I want it to shine!