You do you, OP! If it makes you and your family happy, then it’s awesome! I am slowly pulling out fall decorations. I changed our wreath from summer to fall yesterday. I can’t do Halloween this early. I usually put up the Halloween stuff mid-October. |
Still enjoying summer. I just left our beach house a week ago and it’s way hotter in DC than it is there. I start fall with mums and if I plant them now they will be dead before Halloween. Fall is October/November. Then shift to Christmas. Then on January first I am so ready to declutter. |
This is so lame. |
I haven’t put anything up yet, but I’m planning what we’ll do this year. We have a tradition here that all the decorations go up on October 1, and for 31 days we watch clips of The Nightmare Before Christmas.
The older kids start designing their costumes in September so we have time to make them, and the little ones start planning their costumes and making any little crafts they want to display. Then on 9/30 and 10/31, we have a decorating party (just our family with snack food and spooky music) and we do a big fall cleaning and decorating. It’s the best way to get the kids excited about cleaning. You can’t decorate a messy room, so let’s wash those baseboards and vacuum the heck out of this place! Then we take down the Halloween specific decor the first week of November, and start planning any Christmas decorations we need to make or buy. The full transition happens Thanksgiving weekend. We have a similar process for winter decorating except switching from TNBC to Frosty and Rudolph. |
Actually I make my own wreaths, Michaels ones are too pricey for me. |
Joy in Halloween, OP? Won't those Halloween decorations be competing with your Christmas decorations? I am sure THOSE have been up since last year. I don't care how much you love any particular holiday or decorations. I'm going to use a favored DCUM word. Decorating a month and a half before a holiday is trashy. But you do you, OP. |
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The fact that some of the women on this forum are getting so bent out of shape because someone is happy to put up holiday decorations early and calling them trashy over it on 9/11 of all days just shows everything that is wrong with the United States. |
I don't celebrate Christmas..... |
Unhappy people........ |
Happy PP who doesn't think that Halloween is a "celebration" and my response had nothing to do with this somber day of 9/11.
In fact, I thought the OP's post was funny yet dumb. |
Halloween is fun. The only thing holding me back is getting through a Sept birthday this weekend and then I may start slowly setting out a few things for the kids. Love the Michaels craft ideas! I’m going to look into that.
I will say I bought some cabbages and a mum last weekend when it was cooler and they look pretty sad in this heatwave. |
NP. In summary, this is the kind of thread that could have been avoided had OP not put up her Halloween decorations in early September. Lesson learned. |
Wow people really get worked up over this. Now go put the san energy into an actual issue. Run along now |
You were being extreme |