Artemis Windsong
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The love in me salutes the love in you. M. Williamson
Joined: Dec 18, 2010 19:32:12 GMT -5
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Dec 26, 2015 18:32:47 GMT -5
My decorating is sparse. I do need to feel the holiday with the decor.
Our block is on one of the Xmas light drives. We have green lights in our outside lights but seldom turn them on. I do have greenery with a garland in the planter.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2015 20:23:31 GMT -5
I used to be the Christmas house, decorated every thing, lights outside, reindeer in the yard, lights inside and a tree, couches and couch back covered in Christmas bears, caroling dolls and Santas mantle filled with cool stuff mountain of gifts under the tree. One year we got the tree so early I told him it would be too dry for Christmas but he said he didn't care and we could replace it before Christmas so the tree came down and replaced then left up for New Year's. I had 4-5 large shelving units and maybe 20 Rubbermaid tubs of Christmas stuff in the basement and two large red garbage cans of stuffed animals. Now ISO moved away and people stopped coming to my house in 2003. So I have done less every year and now alone not planning any parties. I gave away a truck full of stuff to Facebook friends Christmas Bazaar, new lights, used lights all wrapping paper and ribbons, then someone wanted tree decorations and toys so gave her a car trunk of decorations and some stuffed animals. Took the reindeer and stuffed bears and any thing he would have been upset to lose to ISO's house. My house is perfect now, mantel has 3 nut crackers and 4 acrylic reindeer, bathroom has 3 hand towels and 4 fingertip towels in white and red with elves. Basement has a tree stand still and caroling dolls are still here but not out. No tree, no gifts. I didn't get a single Christmas gift this year. I asked people to please just stop, I am trying to get rid of stuff, don't want anything so just don't and they didn't. I gave the 16 year old with down syndrome a gift card to Amazon, she knows how to use them now and likes them. I gave the 19 year old in college a Amazon gift card box with 3 $100 bills and told him they were paper gift cards and their mom $100. ISO got a custom made bed and some stuff like pillows and a blanket to go with it but early so no need to wrap. So I got by with no wrapping at all, no cards, do handling stuff I didn't want to get, already put the towels out of the bathroom so need to clear the mantle and I am undecorated. With zero garbage.This is probably the last year we do any sort of real gift exchange because even our over-spending besties said, "It's so hard to find stuff, and we don't need stuff, so maybe next year we don't give stuff-we just go out for dinner together". Several years ago another good friend suggested we just donate to various charities so we feed the hungry and house the homeless and so forth. Our shelves are too full and so are the animal shelters so the solution is obvious for us. That doesn't mean the occasional pink plastic flamingo from the dollar store with a tiny airline-sized bottle of liquor doesn't land in someone's yard
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tloonya
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Joined: Dec 18, 2010 16:22:13 GMT -5
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Post by tloonya on Dec 28, 2015 9:35:27 GMT -5
Is it me or Christmas lights this year were like down by 50%?
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