BBRoundtable

When will you start decorating your
home or place of residence for
the holiday (for those who
do)? Have you already
started or have c-
ompleted the
decorat-
ing?

I am considering an artificial tree. Not sure yet. I have never had one before...

Sort of hard for me to get in the spirit this year. Maybe that would help...

I'm already all decor'd up... took care of all that this past Sunday! Not too much to it, though... just a few things hung up and a little decor for the exterior, but no tree or anything. Just enough to make for a festive mood

The lights are up on the exterior of my home and I have a small fiber-optic tree set up in my living room.

The tree is going up today. A bunch of other decorations were already up.

All decorated here!

Ah, Christmas decorations. One of those nice things that I get to enjoy either for the beauty or the unintentional tacky humor value, but never have to deal with putting up myself. I love being Jewish.

Of course, if I did put up some lights, I could always do something like this guy did, if my neighbor were all hardcore about it:

Frong wrote:Ah, Christmas decorations. One of those nice things that I get to enjoy either for the beauty or the unintentional tacky humor value, but never have to deal with putting up myself. I love being Jewish.

Going by that logic, wouldn't it be best to be an atheist? Then you could theoretically do whatever you want!

Theoretically, but seeing as no Jewish holiday traditionally necessitates putting up flashy decorations of any sort, it works just as well this way. I can keep my usual religion and still not have to put up with spending days putting up decorations. The extent to which you're really supposed to "decorate" anything in Judaism is to put a menorah in your window on Chanukah. That's about it. Five minutes a night for a week and you're done.

Good thing I put my outside lights around Thanksgiving. Now it's too cold to do it. -9 F right now. Brrrr!

Usually I go all out, but this year, I decided not to put anything up. It's going to be hard enough.

Mom and I are going to my Sister's house, where everyone decided to get together. Next year we will decorate and everyone will come up here. I am going to put a little tree on Dad's grave. He always did like the Holidays and sold Christmas trees when I was little.

Masamune wrote:Usually I go all out, but this year, I decided not to put anything up. It's going to be hard enough.

Mom and I are going to my Sister's house, where everyone decided to get together. Next year we will decorate and everyone will come up here. I am going to put a little tree on Dad's grave. He always did like the Holidays and sold Christmas trees when I was little.

((((( Masa))))) Hopefully with time, things will get a bit easier.

at the lighting picture. "Ditto" That's hillarious.

Since my sister will be decor-
ating this year again, I e-
xpect the decoration-
s to be up either o-
n Christmas Eve
or the day af-
fter Chris-
tmas. A
sham-
e, b-
ut
I fea-
r it will
become tr-
uth since she
wants to do it a-
ll by herself being t-
he perfectionist that s-
he is. Because of this, no-
one can help. Oh well I say!!

I think I'll just admire what others are doing this year.

This coffee shop in town has a redwood tree growing in the middle of it. They string up these lights every year...