Is your house decorated yet?

ButterflyPrincess · Post by **ButterflyPrincess** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:21 am

For Christmas that is.. We'll do ours this weekend.

There are a few houses in our neighborhood that have been done for weeks now.

Post by **Betty Boop** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:45 am

NO!! far too early.

ButterflyPrincess · Post by **ButterflyPrincess** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:47 am

This is the weekend we normally do it. I couldn't believe the houses that have been decorated for 2 weeks now. I love Christmas but I can only take so much of it.. lol

Like I said we'll do it this weekend.

Post by **Betty Boop** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:50 am

Second week of December will be soon enough for me.

ButterflyPrincess · Post by **ButterflyPrincess** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:51 am

That's when my mom does it..

We have so many lights that go all over our house.. the roof.. the trees and bushes.. I don't want them only up for 2 weeks. It's a pain in the ass to put them up.. lol We have sooo many lights on our house @ least 3000 or more. Plus all the yard decorations, the tree & everything that goes into the house.

ButterflyPrincess · Post by **ButterflyPrincess** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:54 am

ahh you're one of the "bah Humbug" people. :wah:

Post by **Betty Boop** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:56 am

Barman;1071102 wrote: We dont put any decorations up at all, load of old bollox i reckon. Roll on January, get this farce called Christmas over and done with.:p

Yaaay! I'm right there with you mate, but I have young children so I have to make the effort :rolleyes:

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:58 am

Not until the 15th. Decorations stay up until Epiphany here.

ButterflyPrincess · Post by **ButterflyPrincess** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 12:02 pm

Ours house to be down by Jan. 2.

HOA SUCKS! :rolleyes:

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 12:03 pm

Leave it up until Jan. 6th for Epiphany, so you can enjoy it longer.

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 12:30 pm

Ours is pretty well started. Still more to do outside. When our children were small, I decorated the whole inside of the house. I haven't done much other than a tree and a few things the last few years since the kids got older, but I may this year for the grandkids.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 2:10 pm

By the Knight Before Christmas, oh Bar?

ButterflyPrincess · Post by **ButterflyPrincess** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 2:54 pm

chonsigirl;1071113 wrote: Leave it up until Jan. 6th for Epiphany, so you can enjoy it longer.

We can't. We will be fined.

qsducks · Post by **qsducks** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 10:03 pm

We are decorating tomorrow. I also decorate my inside windows with ribbon running down each side. Makes it feel really Christmasy.

BF, you get fined? Wow! We don't but I do toss my tree in the backyard for the animals to make nests in, etc.:wah:

qsducks · Post by **qsducks** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 10:12 pm

chonsigirl;1071113 wrote: Leave it up until Jan. 6th for Epiphany, so you can enjoy it longer.

We leave them up till the 6th also. But if that day falls on the weekday, I'll take them down myself. Can't have the kids helping with that as things get outta hand.

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 10:14 pm

ours was done a month ago, when the weather was warm,

last week was our firs big snowfall, was so pretty to see all he house lights on as it fell.

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 12:05 pm

My home is still decorated for autumn........'cause it still is.

Actually, 4 weeks before Christmas is the Advent season. The Christmas season starts on Christmas day and lasts through the Epiphany in January.

cars · Post by **cars** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 3:47 pm

NO!

When I was younger, & we had small kids I used to start decorating the outside of our house at the beginning of October, right through till about December 6 or 7th, and then turned them all on! I used to put up around 1000+ lights all around the house, colored spot lights on the trees, & bushes, 4 ft high lighted santa, 4 ft high lighted snowmen (3), 4 ft high lighted raindeer (4), 6 ft high lighted candy canes (2) one on either side of front door, people would drive down our street with a car full of kids and stop, some even took pix! One year our house made the front page of the local newspaper with a colored pix displayed. After that, there was always a parade of cars passing our house, even causing the police to have to come to move them along as they were causing traffic jams.

It was great, but the downside was a giagantic electric bill for the month of December, & half of January!!!

Now, for the past 4 years (since I retired) we head South for the winter, & so I decorate our villa there, but in no way near the way I used to decorate for Christmas!!! (Our kids are all grown! So . . )

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 10:11 pm

well people around here look at me like i'm crazy when i tell them that i start decorating the inside of my house the week after halloween, so i wait to do the outside so people won't thick i'm too crazy! :yh_rotfl

i started on the outside yesterday.

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 10:43 pm

Barman;1072486 wrote: A month ago, you are joking yes.:wah:

a month ago?

not having them on, just putting them up outside when it was warm.:-5