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When is it too late to still have Holiday decorations up?
CellarDweller:
and for those who are wondering, the turkey forms look like this.
Jeff Wrangler:
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I decorate for holidays when it's darker earlier. I will put out lights (orange, green & purple) for Halloween, with a light up jack-o-lantern and bat. For Thanksgiving, a set of orange lights goes up, with light up turkey forms. Christmas gets multi-color 'twinkle' lights and a tree and wreath. February gets a string of red lights, and heart forms in the windows. St. Patrick's Day gets a strand of green lights and shamrock forms. Finally, Easter gets pink lights, and a set of egg forms.
At that point, it doesn't get dark until late at night, and I'm in bed by 10:00, so there's no point to put up lights, to only have to turn them off an hour or so later, so no red, white and blue lights for Independence Day.
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I still can't get over how big Halloween has gotten for decorating. I remember when it was cardboard cut-outs and a jack-o-lantern. We never decorated for Valentine's Day or St. Patrick's Day or Easter, except for spring flowers set around the house and taken to my grandparents. As a kid of course I got an Easter basket, but Easter was always primarily a religious thing, not a reason for decorating.
CellarDweller:
Mom was a big decorator in our house, when it came to the holidays. She still is.
We always big red hearts and cupids on the windows and doors for Valentine's Day, big green shamrocks on the windows and doors for St. Patrick's Day, eggs and bunnies for Easter, turkeys, pilgrims and cornucopias for Thanksgiving.
Here is what I remember for October and Halloween.
CellarDweller:
We also had what I called "popcorn" decorations.
different colored pieces of plastic put together into holiday images.
Here is Halloween.
Thanksgiving
And Christmas. (and no, I don't know why there is a jack-o-lantern in that pic)
Oh, they had Valentine's Day too.
CellarDweller:
As of Thursday (January 4th) my apartment has been "de-Christmased".
Tree is down, ornaments packed away, flag and lights are boxed up.
The windows will unadorned until the last week of January, when I put up the Valentine's Day flag and lights.
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