BellaBoo

My tree goes up the week before Christmas and comes down the day after Christmas. I bought a huge pre lit tree that has three sections. I can have it put together in about 5 min. We use to get a real tree but it was getting to be a problem with where to discard it and I felt bad about the pretty tree being tossed away. DH decorates the outside anyway he likes and he likes lights and yard ornaments. They stay out until after New Year's Day. I hang everyone's stocking on my quilt rack rod over the chest that has my favorite Nativity set out. I hang fresh pine wreaths on the outside doors and I'm done decorating.

dglvr

I have lots of Christmas Doggie Ornaments and I only see them once a year so I'm getting all them out today so I have them all out and ready to decorate on Friday. :D Taking all my Fall stuff down today. :roll:

mjsylvstr

BILLY

You're blowing my mind........as I wrote to you before.......you are a man who a woman's heart desires since you both quilt and like to shop..
(Black Friday !!) and now you tell us that you also cook.

Ladies, is there anyone out there who has all these qualities in their hubby?

Although, I think it's great that you like these things, don't take me wrong, I wouldn't trade mine for anything.......lololol

Happy Thanksgiving..........mj

MadQuilter

We don't decorate. For a while I had a sign in my office with a green HO HO HO in a red circle and a red slash through it. (Hey - the colors were in the spirit - if not the message. :lol: ) But I am less militant about it now.

It boggles my mind that people still send me Christmas cards. As long as they don't expect anything in return.....

Since Santa started to observe the No Fly Zone over our property and I don't have to contend with any potential reindeer droppings - life is good.

Elisabrat

I will decorate with my daughter, a tradition that has not stopped even though she is not a little girl anymore and in the army. She comes home tonight and is excited to put up the "stuff".. dont you start without me! I have taken to sitting back and letting her play decorator it makes her so happy and this makes me smile. Friday will be one decorating extravaganza. I just glittered up 2 dozen pinecones to hang from the garland over the door, hot cider on the stove just to "smell up the house" and loud old fashioned Christmas carols that we can sing off key together .. the men in my house avoid us like the plague during this time for some reason!..(Note: As to mistletoe its hemlock.. highly poisonous to animals.children so artifical is always good if its real take a bit of netting and ribbon it around the greenery so not a leaf falls off. Poinsettas are also toxic (darn it) but the use me year after year ones look pretty good and require no water!.

Lostn51

I love to cook, thanks to me spending time in the kitchen with my mom over the years. Everyone who has ever eaten at my house always says the same thing......open a restaurant!!

Not only is my family going to be here but all of my sons and daughters friends (my extended family :lol: ) that usually hangs out with them will be here also. So I should end up feeding close to 20 this year.

Billy

pocoellie

Our new place is so small, there is barely room for us, little only decorations and trees. Maybe in a few years, when we build a home, but until then, there's a large Christmas shaped tree by the driveway, with lights already on, so we'll just plug those in.

Pats8e8

I've always been upset at how the stores rush the season. Christmas decorations were out in stores here a month ago. I was talking to myself in one of the stores, I said, Merry Christmas, in a disgusted voice, and a lady going by said, yes, for heaven's sake, let me have some turkey first please.
We don't start to put up decorations before the 15th of December. Then they stay up until Jan. 6th, little Christmas. When I was a child, we all hung our stockings and went to bed and Santa brought the tree along with the gifts. Guess I'm still pretty much stuck in that age.

Damkina

Over here in England, although I don't know how many follow these dates, it's traditional to put the Christmas Decorations up on the night of the 12th December. They usually stay up until the 6th of January.

But, this year we will be leaving them up a bit longer as my son comes home from Afghanistan in the new year... he wants the Christmas decorations up... presents around the tree and a full Christmas Dinner with all the family... whatever date he lands.

So tradition will be flying out the window this year

Jim's Gem

We've had a family tradition of going together to a tree farm and cutting our own tree. Since my eldest started college in 2000 we wait until we have the most people home for the task. Sometimes that's as late as the 20th or even the 23rd before we get the tree. Since I am temporarily handicapped I will let the rest of the family decorate while I watch them. My oldest is married but lives real close, she will decorate her own place with a tiny tree. My second is married and it is the year his family is going to their home so Jen will have to do her own decorating. We will wait for our son to get home from school and my son to get leave from the Navy.