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[macwilkin]

We put our decorations up at Christmas - that is, 24th December. Usually in the afternoon.

Then we take them down on Twelfth Night.

Hear, Hear! It's not even Advent yet, and I had to put the tree up...under protest, of course...yes, dear...

Todd

[McFarkus]

We put our decorations up at Christmas - that is, 24th December. Usually in the afternoon.

Then we take them down on Twelfth Night.

I suspect that they might be considered slightly restrained in design and extent.

I do tend to buy the largest tree I can find -a response to the tiny artificial tree we had at home, I think, but that is the only extravagance.

That's the tradition we followed when I was growing up (in Chicago).

[McFarkus]

Gee, in our family we have a enjoy putting up our decorations in stages in preparations for the Christmas Holiday. This week we will put up our Herald Angel light and wreaths outside. The next we will put up our Nutcracker collection, then our snow village on the mantle, and finally our tree. I don't mind those who do it all in one frantic afternoon, but I prefer doing it gradually. It is certainly a good excuse to listen to Frank Sinatra and Mel Tormes' Christmas albums while enjoying a Christmas Spider, Santa Baby, or simple Egg Nog.

Sounds kind of like the Advent Calendars I used to look forward to when I was a kid where you opened one window each day during Advent ending up with the Christ child on Christmas.

[Archangel]

I purposefully left mine on all year. The evergreen's lights were on every night. Even the prancing reindeer got to boogie sometimes in the summer.

So, did I win?

[emolas]

I purposefully left mine on all year. The evergreen's lights were on every night. Even the prancing reindeer got to boogie sometimes in the summer.

So, did I win?

I came up with the great idea to just leave them up all year once. I was living in military housing at the time and apparently somebody complained because I got a warning letter saying that I had to take them down. It really annoys me when people feel a need to complain about things that don't concern them and it was only a week before independence day so, rather than take them down, I laboriously replaced every bulb with alternating red/white/blue bulbs then replied to the letter saying that my Christmas lights were taken down and my 4th of July lights replaced them.

Yesterday I went deer hunting all day - all I saw was squirrels and a couple of grouse (and a mob of woodpeckers sounding like teletype machines!).

Today I was a good family guy and did all the outside decorating: one of those plastic light-up Nativity sets with figures about 20" tall (I built a wooden "stable" thingy to place them in. With spruce boughs and little white lights on top it looks pretty cool). Also, little white lights on the bushes (non-blinking! I hate the blinkers!!).

The best part was my Dad gave me all of his old fashioned strings of lights with the large-sized bulbs (some of them dating back to the `50's). With these around the windows, we now have a "retro" look as well.

The tree won't go up for a couple of weeks yet....

One of my favourite displays I have seen is a lighted lawn deer gutted and hanging from a tree.

[James MacMillan]

I came up with the great idea to just leave them up all year once. I was living in military housing at the time and apparently somebody complained because I got a warning letter saying that I had to take them down. It really annoys me when people feel a need to complain about things that don't concern them and it was only a week before independence day so, rather than take them down, I laboriously replaced every bulb with alternating red/white/blue bulbs then replied to the letter saying that my Christmas lights were taken down and my 4th of July lights replaced them.

One of my favourite displays I have seen is a lighted lawn deer gutted and hanging from a tree.

I just love both of those ideas! The first is labor intensive, but could be done with almost any holiday - Easter lights, 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, etc etc etc - although choosing what color to change the light to would be interesting.

The second idea, I REALLY like. I have one of those wire frame deer thingies, that could be re-bent and displayed very easily...... of course the wife may have something to say on the matter.......

[Yaish]

Here ya go James

[ccga3359]

Here ya go James

That is just wrong on sooo many levels .

[James MacMillan]

Here ya go James

Yaish - You have made my day, Heck my week, no, my month!

This rates a new high in rofl!

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[threebanger]

One of my favourite displays I have seen is a lighted lawn deer gutted and hanging from a tree.

LOVE that one!!