Doing less and less holiday decorating with each passing year

I do no interior decorating. Who's gonna see it? When my mom was alive (she passed in 2006), she went all-out, even with pine roping on the staircase bannister. Of course she did a little whip cracking to get me to help. I just don't have the ambition to do it anymore and it makes me sad to have to take them down. I hang a wreath on the front door and I'm done! Easy to take in, too, when the wind is blowing and it's -10° in January.
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debodun said:
I do no interior decorating. Who's gonna see it? When my mom was alive (she passed in 2006), she went all-out, even with pine roping on the staircase bannister. Of course she did a little whip cracking to get me to help. I just don't have the ambition to do it anymore and it makes me sad to have to take them down. I hang a wreath on the front door and I'm done! Easy to take in, too, when the wind is blowing and it's -10° in January.
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deb...my mom died in 2006 too! So know what you mean. She left a big hole there when it comes to Christmas decorating...lol.
 
Me thinks that Christmas, commercially speaking, is pure madness. Some folks putting out their lights in October. The ice is melting, the seas are rising, the temperature is going up, California is burning, the world is suffering from over population & what do we do? We shop, shop, shop, shop, shop until we drop. We are like that proverbial ostrich with it's head in the sand hoping that Christmas will make all the problems go away. HA! On December 26, it will be the same ole' world with the same ole' problems but more of them. Then on January 21st come those "lovely" letters from American Express, Visa & Master Card telling you that you better pay or they gonna get you with their high interest rates. Hey, I'm not Scrooge. I don't mind family & friends getting together nor do I mind people celebrating the birth of Christ, but I'm here to tell you that I got of that stupid Merry-Go-Round several years ago & I am a better person for it.
 
My 12 y.o. granddaughter now decorates the whole house with bookoo xmas stuff I've accumulated from over the years...then I switch it up after she leaves, with her permission of course, lol...
 

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