Do you decorate your home for a holiday?

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Maybe just for Xmas, but do you decorate for other holidays?
There are some homes with purple and orange lighting, and all decked out for Halloween. That's becoming a big thing around here.
I live at the end of a cul-de-sac, and only my next door neighbor would see any outside decorations. So, I don't put anything outside. I used to put up a Xmas tree and all, but without a bunch of kids, Xmas isn't the same. And I hate taking decorations down, they never fit back in the box.
So, do you get into a holiday spirit by decorating for a holiday?
 

I decorate for St. Patrick's Day 'cause I have some really cool handcrafted wood items for the holiday (inside only). And I decorate for the patriotic holidays, inside and out. Some for Halloween inside and out although it's not my favorite holiday. Thanksgiving only inside and Christmas inside and out... uh, probably go way overboard with that one. 🎅🎄🎁☃️
 
I didn't because my estranged husband was very Bah humbug about all holidays notably Christmas..which I've always loved... so aside from allowing a Christmas tree once every couple of years ..we rarely had any decorations up for over 20 years.

He's been gone since 2021.. that Christmas was the first Christmas I'd decorated for many years... inside.. but with window lights , and garden lights ..but decided against the Christmas tree , because it's big and I can't get it down from the loft by myself..

Last year 2022 I did the same .. , but also I decorated for Halloween/Autumn..first time ever.. that certainly would not have been tolerated by him, at all..

I have the Halloween ornaments and will use them again this month.. including the autumn wreath on the front door.. and then I will donate them all to the Charity shop while they are still in good condition..

Ditto the Christmas decs... aside from the Door garland and window lights..
 

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I do decorate for every holiday I really like but I do the decorating indoors and leave my house and property alone outside. I was so embarrassed as a kid when dad put this awful plastic santa outside to disfigure our lovely neighborhood and I said I would never do anything tacky like that in my entire life and so far I don't. :giggle:
 
We had a neighbour who used to decorate her yard and house with decorations at thanksgiving every year. She’d have a huge globe be on her back deck that would be deflated most times. The decorations would stay until Easter holidays in April and be on.
About ten front trees all decorated in lights.
It was tastefully done though.

She used to leave her Christmas tree up until her husband nagged her enough to take it down. He said that one year after Easter he asked her to do something about the Christmas tree. Next day he walked past expecting it to be gone only to discover it covered in green plastic garbage bags. 😂🤣

She was a hoarder. A sad disorder in itself.
 
Decorating is my favorite part of Christmas. In recent years I've been doing the living room about the middle of November. It's not a lot, it just makes the room look so much prettier, particularly the tree. I hold off on the outdoor lights until the man down the street starts his, we have sort of an unspoken thing about doing it on the same day, whichever one of us starts the other is at it right away. The rest of the street follows.

The other holidays, no. Just a jack o'lantern on the porch to let the kids know we're treating.

Someone in our town has about 20 plastic skeletons that he arranges to look like they're playing cards, dancing, etc. I always look forward to his scene.
 
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I didn't because my estranged husband was very Bah humbug about all holidays notably Christmas..which I've always loved... so aside from allowing a Christmas tree once every couple of years ..we rarely had any decorations up for over 20 years.

He's been gone since 2021.. that Christmas was the first Christmas I'd decorated for many years... inside.. but with window lights , and garden lights ..but decided against the Christmas tree , because it's big and I can't get it down from the loft by myself..

Last year 2022 I did the same .. , but also I decorated for Halloween/Autumn..first time ever.. that certainly would not have been tolerated by him, at all..

I have the Halloween ornaments and will use them again this month.. including the autumn wreath on the front door.. and then I will donate them all to the Charity shop while they are still in good condition..

Ditto the Christmas decs... aside from the Door garland and window lights..
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My sister's husband was anti-Christmas, too. Turns out he had bad childhood memories of the holidays.

My husband is British and was amazed the first year we spent together. I had a different tree with a different theme in each room! I don't do that anymore, but I still decorate the living room, sitting room, and kitchen. When I mentioned last year that I thought I would just decorate the living room, he asked me to reconsider. He says he loves our Christmases and the decorations are part of that.
 
I do. Only major holidays, though. Easter, Halloween (yes, it's major), and Christmas.

In the living room are my lighted craft-foam Jack-o-Lantern on a side table and little black vinyl bats here and there on the walls. On the front porch are some spooky spiders in artificial webs, Michelle's little scarecrow standing on a patch of straw, and a wooden black Halloween cat on our door. Plus there's a fake human skull and part of a rib-cage on the ground in our cactus garden out front with an empty bottled water laying next to him or her.
 
I keep looking at those purple and orange lights, but I haven't seen them up in anyone else's windows where they look good. So I assume doing it right requires more creativity than I possess as well.

I might be tempted to thread them through the row of shrubs along the front of the house, but then I'd want solar lights and this time of year I get less and less sun.
 
I don't decorate the house at all for any holiday, many years ago I would put a simple wreath on the front door, but I haven't done that in a long time. Indoors, the extent of Christmas decoration is plugging in a tiny ceramic tree and placing any cards we get around it.
 
I always have a few Christmas decorations, put out about mid December, a small ornamental tree, some festive bits and pieces collected over the years, couple of candles, a little tinsel and a decorative hanging bell arrangement for my front door

It brightens the place up and makes it nice for family and visitors, a celebration that we’ve come through another year together 🎅🤶☃️🍾🍸🥃🍷
 
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