Christmas decorations

[big brown horse]

Cat in wall, hmmm, string the lights to em and you got yourself a fine Christmas decoration!



Kitty Matrix! Hahahaha!

 

[Big Daddy]

I put up the tree the weekend before X-mas. It comes down before dinner on X-mas day. I love outside lights, as long as they're on someone elses house.

 

[FarmerChick]

any reason the tree comes down on Xmas day?

just wondering. there is no way I am taking down a tree on Xmas day...too much like work...LOL....the day after, sure, but that day....no way do I want that torture.

 

[nightshade]

traditionally we get our tree on black Friday or at some time over that weekend. Weather it is boughten or a cut one from the back yard. And I do not take it down til after Russian Xmas ( this is what I grew up doing I have no idea why except it was after most of hunting season was over and my mom actually had time to undecorate the house.

 

[Big Daddy]

any reason the tree comes down on Xmas day?

just wondering. there is no way I am taking down a tree on Xmas day...too much like work...LOL....the day after, sure, but that day....no way do I want that torture.

After the kids open their presents, it's time to clean up. Getting the tree out of the living room is part of the clean up I do it while DW is cooking dinner. The kids love putting the ornaments away. When the kids are gone I'm going to switch to a ceramic tree that my mother made. That will be it.

BaHumbug.

 

[big brown horse]

I put up the tree Friday day after Tgiving and take it down on New Year's day.

 

[Dace]

any reason the tree comes down on Xmas day?

just wondering. there is no way I am taking down a tree on Xmas day...too much like work...LOL....the day after, sure, but that day....no way do I want that torture.

After the kids open their presents, it's time to clean up. Getting the tree out of the living room is part of the clean up I do it while DW is cooking dinner. The kids love putting the ornaments away. When the kids are gone I'm going to switch to a ceramic tree that my mother made. That will be it.

BaHumbug.

I start my decorating on Thanksgiving....so by the day after Christmas I am DONE with it all. I love dragging the tree out as my last hurrah!

 

[delia_peterson]

Good morning Drake, that is a nice tradition.

I'm a bit bummed about my daughter never really getting into decorating the tree. As a kid I loved to unwrap all the beautiful ornaments some dating back to the turn of the century. My mom finally gave them to me when I had my daughter. (She moved on to just putting dried flowers and moss in her artificial tree.) Each ornament has a story, you guys know what I mean.

For the last 12 years I've been putting up and taking down a beautiful tree full of one of a kind ornaments, ribbons, glass icicles, that beautiful wax angel from Germany and tiny white lights. I moved the furniture all around to get the tree just right...

Oh, HECK!!!! I'm getting soft now, I do want a tree! FarmerChick you are right, I need to just get over myself and put one up JUST FOR ME! I love lights on the front porch too.

BBH, I did the tree trimming every Christmas like you are talking about. When my kids grew up,moved out,married-they
came home for Christmas.I got divorced,split all the family stuff up between them except the Christmas stuff. Well, the first holiday that rolled around I was not up for it emotionally and I was always the one that took care of Christmas. Well, imagine my suprise when my daughter took over.She had always had the Christmas spirit-and had listened to all the stories about every ornament and had a memory about every holiday! We have had Thanksgiving (the tree goes up after dinner) and Christmas every year at her house ever since-and thats been the last 5 years! I never would have thought that-she kept her Christmas spirit pretty hidden when she was young! So don't give up hope! And she inherited all the Christmas ornaments....

 

[okiegirl1]

when I was single, I had a Christmas lamp. decorated it like a tree.

hubby had a Christmas ladder. again, decorated the same.

very cute, fond memories.

 

[TTs Chicks]

We used to put up the tree the day after Thanksgiving, but my middle son's bday is Dec 6th so we quit doing that. I want him to still have a birthday cause most December bdays get short changed. Now we'll ask him if he wants it up before or after his bday - he usally says before so that he can see Christmas presents under the tree

We live in the middle of nowhere - neighbors are cows - but we do the outside because we like to see the lights.