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Re: When is it too late to still have Holiday decorations up?
« Reply #150 on: January 02, 2021, 08:10:09 am »
Some people seem to start putting them up here before Thanksgiving.  I refuse to do that.  I want to acknowledge and celebrate Thanksgiving, so I refuse to do anything Christmas related until it passes.



We don't have Thanksgiving, but I'm totally with you re acknowledging it properly.
Even after Thanksgiving would be too early over here. We start with an Advent wreath on the first Sunday of Advent of course, but other than that, no Christmas decoration. No, not totally true: Advent calendars for the children from Dec 1st thru Dec 24th are hanging on the walls.

Most people start decorating for Christmas around 3rd Advent, roundabout one or two weeks before Christmas.
I take out my Christmas dinnerware as soon as Advent starts however. It's so beautiful (IMO) and I have only a couple of weeks each year to use it. :laugh:

The tree is something else entirely. Traditionally, it is only put up on Dec 24th by the parents, the gifts put under it and then the room gets locked. On Christmas Eve, after church and a festive (long) dinner, the children see the decorated tree for the first time.
But we usually put the tree up one week before Christmas Eve.


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I also think I'm Christmased out this year.  Normally I feel like I didn't do a lot of Christmas related stuff.  This year, however, I did.  I decorated the day after Thanksgiving, then that weekend did a drive through Christmas light event, and then because I worked from home, I saw a ton of the Hallmark Christmas movies, plus the usual shopping and wrapping and Christmas music.

I think I was ready for a break.

 ;D :laugh:

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Re: When is it too late to still have Holiday decorations up?
« Reply #151 on: March 06, 2025, 01:54:30 pm »
I have a neighbor across the street from the house who still has an illuminated snowman on her front porch and lights around her living room window. All of them are illuminated at night.
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Re: When is it too late to still have Holiday decorations up?
« Reply #152 on: March 06, 2025, 04:15:03 pm »
geeeez.


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Re: When is it too late to still have Holiday decorations up?
« Reply #153 on: March 06, 2025, 08:20:25 pm »
 :o :o

Actually, my neighbor still has a lighted tree in their yard.
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Re: When is it too late to still have Holiday decorations up?
« Reply #154 on: March 06, 2025, 10:12:02 pm »
:o :o

Actually, my neighbor still has a lighted tree in their yard.

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Re: When is it too late to still have Holiday decorations up?
« Reply #155 on: March 06, 2025, 11:48:24 pm »
The city I live in, a suburb but right across the street from Minneapolis, decorated the trees lining the median of the street that goes to my apartment building with beautiful lights of unexpected colors -- violet, turquoise, peach, etc. -- that are wrapped tightly around the trunk and up into the branches rather than dangling from branch to branch.

They're still up as of this evening, and I for one still love looking at them. My suburb has been known as a place Jewish people have lived: the Cohen Bros. (their movie "A Serious Man" was filmed here), Al Franken, Thomas Freedman and a few other famous Jewish people came from here, etc. So maybe we can thank that for the community having different rules for lights? They went up during the holiday season, but they could go through the winter as far as I'm concerned. Heck, year around!



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Re: When is it too late to still have Holiday decorations up?
« Reply #156 on: March 11, 2025, 09:15:47 pm »
The neighbor still has the snowman on her front porch, but it's not illuminated.
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Re: When is it too late to still have Holiday decorations up?
« Reply #157 on: March 12, 2025, 03:52:18 pm »
I would be so tempted to leave notes on their door.   "Christmas and Winter are over!"

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Re: When is it too late to still have Holiday decorations up?
« Reply #158 on: March 29, 2025, 08:37:42 pm »
At a house a few doors down the block there is a tree in the front yard still wrapped in twinkling red lights.
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Re: When is it too late to still have Holiday decorations up?
« Reply #159 on: March 29, 2025, 11:17:47 pm »
and I already have my Easter stuff up.  LOL

I figured I wouldn't be in the mood to put it up after the trip,  so I put it up before I left.


Tell him when l come up to him and ask to play the record, l'm gonna say: ''Voulez-vous jouer ce disque?''
'Voulez-vous, will you kiss my dick?'
Will you play my record? One-track mind!