How much Christmas decorations do you have? Do you create your own wreath for door?

We keep our Christmas decorations in a box, stored in the closet. Each year, we take it out and unwrap the ornaments, tinsel, etc. The Christmas tree lights are in a separate box. We also have a wooden Nativity Scene I place over the piano. The Christmas lights and reindeer for outside are stored in the garage. It has become a family tradition to put up the Christmas tree just after Thanksgiving, and that's a nice ritual we have, with music and good cheer. I love the final part - where we light up the Christmas tree! Feeling good just thinking about it! :)
 
I downsized holiday decorations a couple of years ago.

I still have one small box with a ceramic tree, nativity, and a couple free standing ornaments.

This year I’m going to leave the box in the closet and buy a big fat poinsettia.

If Christmas arrives on time, as usual, I’ll donate the box to a charity shop before the new year.
 

I do have a home-made wreath but I hang it on the inside of the door because I worry it'll get stolen.

I used to set up a little lighted village on my bookshelves, a train set under the tree, and light-up snowflakes for the walkway outside, but I gave all that away when I moved to this apartment several years ago.

Now I have a pretty decent artificial tree and a few boughs of pine and holly that I hang above some windows, also artificial.

But Michelle has some hall-decking stuff of her own that I'll be seeing for the first time. Should be fun figuring out what will go where and all that.
 
I have a pretty small Christmas 🎄 tree, a short set of lights and a red and green weird looking decoration.

The Christmas tree has attached ornaments.

And that's it. I really don't have room for any more.

I enjoy looking at other people's decorations on my street. There are some beautiful ones.💖😃🎄💜👍😍
 
I sold the tree. It hadn’t been used in years. In the front window, I set up a small pottery village that a friend made. In the office window, it‘s a collection of old Santas and some lights. DH has a box his sons decorated about 40 years ago and that holds our decorations. If the box didn’t have sentimental attachments, it would be downsized. I put a silver wreath on the front door.
 
I have a 4' tree that I decorate with cardinals and snowflakes, a wreath for the front door, two big candy canes that loop over my two garage lantern lights, my two pink flamingos wearing Santa hats, scarves and blinking red noses, and a few sentimental tchochkis saved from the purging of my collection of more than 1,000 Santas. I might or might not put some battery-operated candles in the front windows, depending on the degree of Grinchiness I'm feeling that particular year.
 
I downsized holiday decorations a couple of years ago.

I still have one small box with a ceramic tree, nativity, and a couple free standing ornaments.

This year I’m going to leave the box in the closet and buy a big fat poinsettia.

If Christmas arrives on time, as usual, I’ll donate the box to a charity shop before the new year.
That's a good idea about the Poinsettia. I would do that too but can't because they are poisonous to birds. Can't risk putting one out and have my bird take a bite. She generally stays away from my plants but still... I'd worry.
 
We didn't put up a tree last year; first time we didn't. I was extremely tired after radiation/cancer and did not have the energy. Instead, I put out all of the decorative trees I have collected for years. I add one every year to the collection. Haven't seen one I like. The stores are already 'picked over' and have very little Christmas decor. I always put a wreath on the door; hasn't been stolen, thank goodness. Who would want a 20 year old wreath?!? :sneaky:🤪
 

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