Christmas Decorating?

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

How do you plan to decorate this year? Do you have any favorite decorations that you use every year?

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

I prefer to have a real Christmas tree over an artificial one. It is sooo neat getting to have an actual tree inside the house. I love the feel of the limbs too. I love Christmas lights whether on the tree or garland or elsewhere. I have a pre lit garland that I bought myself several years ago that goes on our porch railing. I added LED lights to the wreath that goes on our front door and we also put a wreath on the back door, but I haven't added LED lights to that one. I also love my manager scene and the other manger scene that my parents have.

 

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I don't bother with Christmas, it's just another day of the year to me, but a lot of people here get quite elaborate with their decorations. Traditional themes are fading out here though, as is to be expected if you think about it.

A great proportion of our population have never seen snow, or deer, or a sleigh. And Christmas is in summer here so it's generally celebrated outdoors at the beach or in a park, or in your own back yard if you have a pool, it's hot.

 

[Forest Cat]

I love everything about it, I just go nuts. Trees, decorations, Advent calendars, Christmas cards, Yule goats, Sankta Lucia parades, Christmas food, rice cream, Christmas doughnuts, more decorations, more of everything. I go completely overboard every year and I love it.

Because if we didn't have Christmas here, December would just be a dark and cold month with nothing happening. After two dark and cold months with nothing happening. And after December comes January, or Helluary as I call it. We need Christmas, it brings joy and light and warmth. And as my grandma said, we don't have more fun than we make ourselves.

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

@Forest Cat I try to keep the tree up as far into January as I can. It's been kept up to the end once, but it usually stays up at least though the first week.

 

[Forest Cat]

A great proportion of our population have never seen snow, or deer, or a sleigh.

Those poor people

 

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Those poor people

It's a tough life, but someone has to live it.

 

[Roisin]

I like Christmas, it brings brightness during the long and dreary winter months.
The christmas tree is my yearly challenge; to do as good as or better than the year before. I get a bit obsessed about bauble placement, the continuous supply of satisfaction it brings me when its completed is bizarre.
I'm not like this for anything else, but it rocks my world. Last year I made a door wreath but with the gaelic for Happy Christmas and that brought me so much joy.