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RE: Eat your Christmas Tree! - Small chilli - 29-12-2023
Mine comes down 1st or 2nd January. Just because I’ve really had enough by then. They don’t go up early either. Some were between 15th & 23rd depending on how festive I’m feeling. Generally around the 20th.
RE: Eat your Christmas Tree! - Veggie - 29-12-2023
These days. as I'm sure you know, I don't "do" Christmas. I've given away all the decorations and cards and take an unworthy delight in hearing about how stressed out some people are over Christmas. Those days are over, thankfully.
RE: Eat your Christmas Tree! - Vinny - 29-12-2023
(29-12-2023, 07:36 PM)Veggie Wrote: These days. as I'm sure you know, I don't "do" Christmas. I've given away all the decorations and cards and take an unworthy delight in hearing about how stressed out some people are over Christmas. Those days are over, thankfully.I seem to be the odd one out in the street? It appears that only families with small children do the Christmas lights thing? My grandkids never come to visit so I might join Veggie's Bah Humbug fraternity next year and give the tree and lights a miss. It would be a shame though as some of the stuff could be classed as family heirlooms as I have had them that long.
God willing,I've got a whole year to think about it!
RE: Eat your Christmas Tree! - JJB - 30-12-2023
The tree and the arguments over putting up the lights above the garage and in the windows are as traditional as the food, almost more so.
RE: Eat your Christmas Tree! - Bren - 30-12-2023
We decorate the mantlepiece and mirror above it looks festive enough for me these days.
RE: Eat your Christmas Tree! - JJB - 30-12-2023
I must admit that by 6th January I'm fed up with them all except the lights, but the room looks dreadfully bare when they all come down.
RE: Eat your Christmas Tree! - Vinny - 30-12-2023
(30-12-2023, 09:59 AM)Bren Wrote: We decorate the mantlepiece and mirror above it looks festive enough for me these days.Might be a plan for next year? as the mantlepiece is deco'd this year, and the tree,and the windows and I agree it would be probably enough for me!
RE: Eat your Christmas Tree! - JJB - 31-12-2023
I've started putting away some stuff gradually each day, then it's not so much of a shock on 12th night. Once in days gone past when the lad was little I festooned the ceilings with garlands. It didn't go down too well with P as they bashed his head every time he entered the living room
the sticky tape and blutack residues weren't appreciated either.
RE: Eat your Christmas Tree! - Bren - 31-12-2023
I remember those days JJB, our kids would spend hours making garlands, egg box decorations and painting pinecones.
You couldn't say we weren't festive then.
RE: Eat your Christmas Tree! - JJB - 31-12-2023
(31-12-2023, 11:12 AM)Bren Wrote: I remember those days JJB, our kids would spend hours making garlands, egg box decorations and painting pinecones.I've still got some of the lad's glitter and salt dough tree decorations in the box. One goes on the tree (hidden round the back). I even have a couple of things from my own childhood, they must be antiques
You couldn't say we weren't festive then.
. Decorations were a lot simpler in those days. Anyone remember the honeycomb tissue bells and snowmen?