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When Do You Put Up/take down Your Holiday Decorations?
Asked by R.D. from Richmond
on November 22, 2010
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Don't get me wrong, I love Christmas, I am just super surprised at how many of my friends have already had their Christmas tree up for 2 weeks! Thanksgiving hasn't eve...
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- When I was growing up we didn't put up our tree until Christmas Eve (because we could usually get a tree for free) then it was taken down New Year's Day. Before childr...
- I can't stand the Christmas decorations up before Thanksgiving. We have THREE radio stations already playing 24/7 Christmas music. Like others in this forum, I LOVE ...
- i'm still taking down halloween decorations! but we have more of them than we do christmas stuff...... we'll put up the outside decorations this weekend, then all the...
Who Does the Holiday Decorating?
Asked by J.H. from Phoenix
on November 27, 2010
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Happy holidays everyone! Question here... who does the holiday decorating in your home? Is putting up the Christmas tree a family effort that has evolved into a tradi...
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- We all do. This year we bought a fake tree that is already lighted so I helped hubby separate the leaves and he and the kids put the ornaments on. I will have hubby ta...
- I do the decorating, I do the planning, I do the shopping, I do the wrapping, I do the cooking, I get the guest rooms ready, and I do all the cleaning up and I'm feel...
- My husband plays no part in the decoration process LOL He's just not into that. He sits there with coffee and observes. He helps if I ask him but he can care less ab...
Christmas Decorations
Asked by J.H. from Denver
on September 23, 2009
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Hi Moms -
This may be a little early to ask, but I am a planner and with a much tighter budget this year I am looking to get started on some good ideas for home decor...
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- Make little "mice" ornaments for your tree. Use a walnut for the body, and an acorn for the head (top of acorn looks like stocking cap, really cute). Red felt Ch...
- We've had those years. I ended up doing a lot of my shopping at thrift stores-if you look hard, you can find some great stuff at an even better price. My boys got FUBU...
- One of my favorite memories as a kid was making "play dough" ornaments (salt four and water) using cookie cutters (and our hands) mom would bake them then we would pai...
When to Decorate Opinions....
Asked by T.M. from Philadelphia
on November 18, 2010
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We are having my family here for Thanksgiving. I usually do not decorate for Christmas until the saturday after Thanksgiving. It is a whole day affair... we make the...
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- I kind of think you have enough to do by hosting Thanksgiving - having to decorate for Christmas on top of that seems like alot of pressure! To me it would seem a bit ...
- My opinion is to decorate for Thanksgiving since it's Thanksgiving. Otherwise you're ignoring the holiday to give thanks for what you have. That's the reason for the h...
- I have decorated before Thanksgiving when I had a ton of people coming mostly because I wouldn't be able to do my traditional Sunday after Thanksgiving Christmas Decor...
What's There to Do for the Holiday?
Asked by S.T. from Dallas
on October 9, 2008
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This is our first holiday season spent in the Haltom City/Fort Worth area. In Austin, there were lots of fall festivals and pumpkin patches to visit this time of year...
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- S., I think ft.Worth has the lighting of the Christmas tree. There are lots of pumpkin patch places to go every where. We have one in Arlington that is run by a famil...
- Here are just a few thing that I know of that you can do. Have a great time and welcome to the area. http://www.flowermoundpumpkinpatch.com/home.html http://fl...
- There is a pumpkin patch on Green Oaks (just west of Cooper Street) at St John the Apostle United Methodist Church in South Arlington. This year will be our 5th year ...
Best Time to Decorate for Christmas?
Asked by L.M. from Dallas
on November 7, 2010
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I love,love,love this time of year!! Needless to say I cant wait to start decorating for Christmas. I was just wondering when others began their decorating. Is it beca...
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- If we are home, we decorate on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Forget black Friday, we go get our tree and swap from our Thanksgiving decorations to Christmas that day...
- Hi! Our family tradition has been since I was a baby to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade as a family on Thanksgiving morning. Then we all got VERY excited ...
- I am with you ILOVE X-Mas to we start the the day after Thanksgiving and it take about a week to finish. I like to keep everything up until the 3rd wk of January. Afte...
When Do You Un-decorate from Christmas?
Asked by M.D. from Washington DC
on December 18, 2011
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I'm sure un-decorate is not a word, but it's late and I'm just curious.
We typically take everything down the day after Christmas. I'm sure we will this year becaus...
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- I like having them there through the 12 days of Christmas. Since I moved into a small apt, I have a small (2 ft) flocked artificial tree. After Christmas, I take off t...
- Usually new years day. This year i am going to put a big ham in the oven and take my time :)
- we make sure to do it AFTER Epiphany, Christmas is a 12 day season that begins on 12/25, so it's usually the first or second weekend in january that the decorations co...
Holiday Traditions
Asked by K.B. from Chicago
on August 30, 2009
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I'm starting to think more about what traditions we want to do at holiday gatherings. I'm realizing that it's my turn to start creating some of these memories for my f...
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- We just started this one. One of the uncles dresses up as Santa and walks around the outside of the house with his back to the windows like he's looking in the sky. ...
- My earliest childhood memories of Christmas always included the annual train ride to the city. We would meet at the train station (it started as my parents, the 6 of u...
- The only tradition I've established is doing what works on any given year! I mean, we celebrate Halloween by dressing up and going Trick-or-Treating, Fourth of July wi...
Holiday Traditions
Asked by M.T. from Philadelphia
on November 14, 2007
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My husband and I are in the process of getting divorced. This will be the first year of holidays not spent as a family unit. I would like to start creating some trad...
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- Hello, my name is N. I am a mother of three beautiful children. One thing that my children and I do together is the christmas tree. I put the garland and the high or...
- My kids and I usually watch A Christmas Story on Christmas eve, and I let them open one small gift.That's my special time with them because they leave with thier dad o...
- Hi! I think it 's so nice and important that you want to create new traditions with your daughter. Here are some of the things that I do with my kids. We always bak...
Holiday Traditions
Asked by B.H. from Albuquerque
on November 26, 2007
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hi, mommies! just wondering what you do as a holiday family tradition? i'd really like to do something special this year that we can do every year as a family! any ...
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- We get each of our kids a special tree ornament (either made or bought) and that way, when they are adults, they'll have 18 ornaments of their own - for keepsakes or f...
- One of the years we had the children make up a rap song and dance to a holiday song...We(Moms)wrote a little something special about each of our nieces and nephews...T...
- I love everyone's ideas! I would also suggest the APS Festival of Lights parade and the Santa's World at Firebird Raceway both are awesome, we have gone for the last t...
