Tree...check. Nativity set...check. Plastic light up Santa in the window...check. Stockings...check. Bear trap to catch the REAL Santa in the chimney...check.
Who has their "multi-cultural holiday season decorations up yet?"
Sheesh!
(Actually, Rivka, a long time ago I purchased a Disney menorah for my nephews. Really cool! The tall one was Goofy. )
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Plastic spiders in the hallway . . . check. Stuffed pumpkin with witch's hat on the coffee table . . . check. Creepy plastic owl . . . well, he's always in the corner, but check. Small scarecrows . . . check. Stuffed black cat with witch's hat . . . check. Orange and black crepe paper . . . check. Plug-in jack-o-lantern in the hallway . . . check.
What do you mean Halloween's still 11 months away?
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I have my Christmas cards (that I got for free last year at my work after Christmas because the card vendor is Just That Cool) in a bag by the front door, ready to be filled out, addressed, stamped, and mailed.
Oh, and a basket with snowmen on it in the backseat of my car. I forgot to take it out of the car last year. I never fully clean out my car. I think it's a superstition. Or laziness. Could be that. *grin*
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Garland around the room: Check Red ribbons: Check Wrapping paper wallpaper: Check Charlie Brown Christmas tree: Check Socking: Half check (I don't have one yet) Wrapped door: Check Big red bow on the door: Check
And Correlle was pissed because I wouldn't let her decorate the door before Thanksgiving was over... Posts: 873 | Registered: Apr 2003
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I have a small amount of Christmas paraphernalia sitting in the corner of my living room waiting to be stored away. Does that count?
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You know, the spirit of these holidays has long been warped by corporate greed and the decline of society. When Christmas comes around, we should remember what the real Christmas story is. It's the best story ever told!
That's right. The story that begins with a young woman named Mary who finds out one day that she's pregnant. After a swift marriage to a local carpenter, Mary announces she was impregnated by God, and an angel told her the child's name would be Bob...
Then came the bit about rather pervy shepherds and wise men who, having nothing better to do in the pre-Internet Jerusalem, came to watch the birth. But still, depending on how low yours standards are, this could be the greatest story ever told!
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HEY! This thread is highly offensive to those of us who don't celebrate Multicultural Holiday Season! You can't force your multicultural beliefs on me!
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Today for me is the first day I can play Christmas music (or actually it is rather more like Multicultural Holiday Season music ), which is what I'm listening to right now. I love the first of december.
I don't usually decorate until around the fifteeth. I like to wait... it makes it better when I can.
I can't wait! (green and red smilies)
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We have our Pearl Harbor Day decor up (or I should say down). It consists of a thick carpet of unopened mail and newspapers that I will probably have to wade through before the fire inspector comes. We also have a broken serving platter on our porch and my husband cut the roses bushes but didn't throw away the clippings yet. It's quite creepy around here.
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Grandma's Antique Artificial 12 foot tall artificial revolving holiday tree--Still in peices in closet.
25' of bunting and holiday holly--Still in peicies in closet.
300 feet of light blue outdoor holiday lights that hang in fantastic three dimensional paterns from the rafters of my front porch? Still in boxes in the closet.
200 Unique and special ornaments for afforementioned tree--still in boxes in the closet.'
150 feet of light icicles which add that festive feeling to my outdoor holiday tableau--still in boxies in the closet.
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And my spelling checker is wrapped up in the corner with a big sticker that says, "Do not open til Xmas".
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Multi-color fibre optic tree penguin door hanger 2 small stockings chocolate-filled advent calendar George Winston's "December" in the CD player Christmas card-writing paraphenalia all over the floor
*Tree that never I never disassembled last year. *Lights *Ornaments *Stockings *"Drive the Cold Winter Away" CD by Horslips, "Jinglecats CD" and other assorted holiday tunes.
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Inspired by this thread, I just put up two strands of multicolored lights. Unfortunately, it turns out they were 99 cents because they don't have a plug at both ends, only one, so you can't string them together. D'oh! What am I supposed to do with three 6-foot strings of lights?
This year I'm going to have a tree and stockings, despite Mark's distaste for Christmas. It'll be a small tree, and the stockings will be loaded with beer and amazon.com gift certificate, though. I'm trying to ease him into the Christmas thing as easily as possible. Posts: 2220 | Registered: Jun 1999
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Jesse Tree - up Advent Wreath - up Manger Scene - MINUS Baby Jesus, AND with Mary and Joseph being traveled throughout the house each day to a different spot by Nathan until Christmas Eve when they arrive at the manger. I hide Baby Jesus, and he has to find him and install him in the manger BEFORE present unwrapping Christmas morn.
And for the heck of it, some snowmen.
The stockings and Christmas Tree will be up 12/24. Not a moment before.
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Shan, these are mini lights. Really don't burn much electricity. But just in case the power does go out, I got the wind-up ones too.
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Hmm...lessee, Advent is the period leading up to Christmas, celebrated mostly by Catholics and similar Protestant types--Lutherans, Episcopalians, and the like. Right? *looks uncertainly about*
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Right. It begins 4 Sundays before Christmas and is a season of preparation.
Advent wreath -- check. Nativity set with animals and empty manger, shepherds off in the fields and Mary and Joeseph moving closer each week -- check.
Edit to add: The first Sunday of Advent is the beginning of the liturgical year. I meant to post a happy new year thread, but I got tied up in other things and didn't get a chance.
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There’s always a bit of tension in congregations between people who take advent seriously and those who want to jump right into Christmas. If you follow the liturgical calendar strictly, you don’t sing Christmas hymns until December 24th, and then sing them for the twelve days of Christmas, and don’t sing “We Three Kings” until epiphany (January 6th). You can guess how well that goes over. So we compromise. This year we put the tree up for the first Sunday in Advent, but we’re decorating it in worship during the Children’s time by adding symbols relevant to each week in Advent. The elementary age kids are making the ornaments in the Tuesday after-school program, and helping to explain to the little kids on Sunday morning. Last week we did symbols related to “new life” to complement the scripture lessons from Jeremiah, Thessalonians, and Luke. Flowers, butterflies, and birds nests with eggs. This week is “proclamation,” so we’re making ornaments with trumpets and scrolls.
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I really, really like the idea of advent as a celebration. I'm sort of torn about the Christmas hoopla - tradition is important, but the traditions seem sort of arbitrary to me. So, maybe I'll adopt this particular one.
*goes off to hunt for a nice advent calendar of Chrstimasy/charitable stuff to do*
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I absolutely LOVE the season of Advent and the nifty traditions that go with it. It helps me remember what the "season" is really about, rather than just tinsel and presents, overcrowded stores and cranky, overwhelmed shoppers, etc. And the traditions also really help bind family together, I think.
And you're right, dkw! Happy liturgical new year!
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