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Do you have personal rules for decorating?
Halloween-don't start until the end of September. Include Fall/Autumn decorations which can be carried over for Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving-we generally stick with Fall/Autumn decorations
Christmas-none until after Thanksgiving. Must be taken down one week after New Years. OK to leave up Christmas lights, but unplug until next season.
Some locally will leave up their tree but remove the Christmas decorations and replace with Mardi Gras (a relatively new tradition). Some will do the same for Easter which follows Mardi Gras. We don't.
Holiday decoration lights should be on a timer. On at sunset, off before midnight (10 or 11pm). If your exterior lights also light up your neighbors' bedrooms and are left on all night, expect hardcore vandalism! Consider your neighbors when it comes to exterior lighting.
no holiday decorating rules, I have enough rules in life. I wouldnt make decorating have rules.
Maybe rules is a bad (negative) word. How about, decorating rituals.....
I decorate for the holidays when I feel like it, I remove them when I feel like it.
Most the same as you, give or take a day. I usually take the tree down New Years Day. I'm old, I don't do NYE anymore, and by that time, I am sick of "Miss Tree".
I tend to put up "fall" decor Oct 1 - I would sooner but being in AZ it doesn't feel like fall before then (or even in Oct much) so it seems pointless. T-giving weekend I take fall down and put up Xmas. Xmas comes down around New Years Day or Day after, etc. One at a time as well. I don't decor any other holidays at this time. If I do anything spring-like it is March-May.
It's nice to have some guidelines and traditions. If I'm going to do any fall decorating it'll be when it FEELS like fall. Around here that's sometime in October or late Sept.
Christmas--just like the first post. I start thinking seriously of Christmas the day after Thanksgiving and it's over in very early January. I don't like one holiday to interfere with another. Each holiday has its place.
I was working in a mall a few years back and noticed that right before Thanksgiving, there was a big sign in Nordstrom that basically stated that they do one holiday at a time, and that Christmas decorations were getting put up AFTER Thanksgiving. Bravo!
If there's one thing I can't stand it is being bombarded with Christmas decorations in the stores before Labor Day. It's bad enough it's September already, now it's December? Don't even get me started with how early the Christmas music is piped into the music systems in the store...
One thing that's really going to screw me up this year is that the first night of Chanukah starts the day before Thanksgiving! Even when Chanukah is over, I keep the menorah out through Christmas, and we keep all the Christmas decor out until the last of the 12 days of Christmas.
Except - our cats LOVE the tree, and I had a hard time last year taking it away from them! The only reason we packed it up when we did was that we were moving the end of January.
Unless you live in a place that has their own rules, for example a condo or hoa there are no rules. That said, Christmas decorating hould begin the day after Thanksgiving, IMHO.
We don't typically decorate for anything other than Christmas and we are fairly minimalist for that. Growing up, the only holiday we really "decorated" for was Christmas. My dad would carve awesome pumpkins for our porch to actually put out on halloween, but I wasn't used to decorating for every holiday so my wife and I don't do it now either.
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