Now, we are literally 1 week away from when I would normally put up decorations. We ALWAYS put it up either on Thanksgiving or that weekend. Since all my kids will be with me on Thanksgiving, I really think we are going to start decorating very soon. I will put the tree up, but we will wait to hang ornaments until Thanksgiving Day.
We are not going to do much outside as noone can really see our house from the road. However, I want to make the front porch charming! What I would LOVE is a sleigh to prop in the corner, but they are so expensive - who knew?
My father in law talked about this once. The years where people really go all out with the Christmas decorations tend to be the years that there are hard times. This year is no different. I truly believe all the talk about Christmas here is because of Harvey.
I know for me it has been a very rough year - just the house building was trying enough, but 2 deaths - a whole generation for me is gone. All my grandparents have now passed. We lost one parent, so it is the start of another generation leaving. I am still seriously underwater with things and trying desperately to catch up.
So, Christmas, for me, is the brightness in this trying year.
How about you? Ready to start decorating?
I am probably in the minority as I'm not even tempted to put up our Christmas decor. I enjoy the holidays, but I quickly tire of of all the extra stuff around the house. I usually put ours up a week or so before Christmas and then it comes down the day after.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I'm not the only one! I love Christmas, and enjoy decorating with my children. But something about it seems so cluttered. I always look forward to taking everything down and having my house back to normal!
DeleteI also never put up a single Christmas decoration until after Thanksgiving. I want to enjoy the fall decorations. One holiday at a time!
That is also my motto! One holiday at a time! Time to join forces and take back the holidays! Lol
DeleteI'm ready to put up my tree already too and I never do until after Thanksgiving. It seems a lot of my Facebook friends are feeling the same way. Though I have one friend who is Christmas obsessed all year, LOL, so she started decorating the day after Halloween. That is interesting about the hard times correlation to decorating. I think I tend to be the opposite. I'm not interested in decorating much during hard times and when I feel optimistic and happy I want to decorate more.
ReplyDeleteI'm the same way. So much in that when my mom died (a few years ago now) on Dec 23, I came home and took every bit of it down!
DeleteI think it has more to do with a mass impact, not individual sadness. It is like people coming together to cheer each other up. We just noticed that on years hurricanes came, there were more decorations outside at least, than on years where there is a boom. We discussed that on bad years there is less money, so you decorate to bring cheer. My grandmother said they did that during the depression. There was more decor since there was less food - the decor was handmade, mind you, but still.
DeleteI always decorate once Thanksgiving is over.
ReplyDeleteMost people do, there are just a lot around here that are already starting to put up. We are too. We decided to put up decor on Sunday.
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