Putting out the Christmas Stuff
 

I’m getting out the trees, lights, yard characters, and all the shit in the attic that has to do with Christmas… My wife buys more shit every year.. Thought I was done after all my girls got married and left home but nooooo… We have to do it for the grandkids… This is one of my least favorite days of the year followed by putting it all up… GET OFF MY LAWN!! I just need to vent.. I’ll be okay…

Spike your eggnog.

I had to put my Christmas stuff out as well. It was probably faulty wiring.

Just leave it up year round. If anybody complains, just ask them why they hate baby Jesus and go back to watching your grandkids Slip n Slide through your nativity scene.

I put lights on our house and put Christmas tree up on thanksgiving.

It’s not a fun job and takes hours.

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I’ve seen some people in my area leave it up until around May. :facepalm:

Punch right in the face…

Lulz. Such a waste of time

Grandkids helped the wife put trees up in the upstairs living room, office, back patio, and downstairs living room.can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a tree. Not putting anything on the house, cause last year I almost fell off and tore the ****in gutter off the front porch.
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All up here. And of course, the lights on the house.
Next year......permanent lights for every holiday

Getting close to being done…. About 1hr to go… I’m getting too old for this shit…

So am I but My oldest daughter now has a boyfriend so he can help me from now on

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Nobody in my neighborhood puts up their own lights. They all pay thousands of dollars for companies to come do it for them. F that. Also F putting them out on my own. I put out one blow up thing and colored lenses on my uplighting and I'm done. This is such a fool's errand.

Boyfriends are temporary

I give this one a year or so, then he will be a fiance'

Daddy approves

I refuse to bother to learn the name of any of my daughter’s boyfriends for at least 6 months (possibly longer at my discretion). I call them all “Smedely”. It reinforces the fact that it’s a transient title and they are not likely permanent fixtures in our lives.

He is a good guy. Farms with his dad and has a job in the seed business. Just bought a house. I would say we have a year before we need to worry about anything. Just hope when she moves, she can find a job for her worth.

This year

Cycle through colors unless it is a game. I have to get up and repair my arrowhead. Attachment 123459

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I just bought some inflatables for the front yard. I always thought they were rather tacky.

I’m turning 100% into suburban dad.

Shit that’s a lot of lights.

Looks good!

They ARE tacky.

But they're easier than stringing lights

Inflatables are awesome. Trying to get one for each holiday.

Lew-next year
https://www.trimlight.com/

Its a great day putting up the tree and all the ornaments, decorating the mantle, music on, I usually cook something fun. We spent Christmas in Italy a number of years ago so Im usually doing something quite traditional ...

Its work but can be a special time for sure.

Wife and kids love it. I love letting them do it. They take it down too. It’s all about training.

Another advantage to living at the end of a road in the middle of nowhere. Nobody would see the damned things if I bothered to put any up.

We just wrapped up yesterday. The Mrs. and my daughter handle the interior while the boys and I take care of the outside. Doesn’t take too long with everyone involved.

That looks great!

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation has been on non-stop on TBS

Is it me or are people putting out their decorations early this year?

You would.

The night glare keeps grandpa off the streets at night. Thanks for the assistance.

Wife and I may as well be Todd and Margo when it comes to Christmas. After 17 years together we finally put up a tree. One of those pre-lit ones with the snow looking white shit that gets everywhere.

She even dehydrated some orange slices to string around it. We also got some wooden beads delivered that we were going to string around it but they smell like they've either been up Santa's ass or sitting off the coast of the Port of Los Angeles for 3 months next to a crate of kimchi so they're airing out in the garage.

Thats the extent of our comfort level for holiday decorations though.

I still have Halloween up that I haven't taken down from last year I just call it home decor.

I don't mind so much putting the house lights up but can't help thinking "Crap in 3 weeks I gotta do this in reverse." When I do take them down, I am in such a hurry that I just throw the stuff in a box to which I regret the next year trying to untangle the mess.

Same with the tree.

But after the 2-3 hours, I get to enjoy them for a month. Worth it, it makes me feel happier. Even when everyone is gone for the holidays, I still do it. I finally realized that I only do it for me. If other people like it as well, is a bonus.

I have an awesome picture of the house at night, lit up, a foot of snow and a full moon, reflecting the lights.

The fireplace is about the same as well. Pain in all parts until viewing the flames.

Why would you put dehydrated orange slices on your tree? Is that a thing people do? Never heard of that...

I used to put up a lot of Christmas stuff. Now I've kind of gone anti-Griswald. Minimalist lights, easy to put up and take down, no ladder climbing.

Mrs B is doing the kids Christmas Play in Lexington on December 11th. When that's done, I'll be able to put up more stuff (wreath on the door, greenery, etc) because she steals that stuff and uses it on the play set.

When I got married 27 years ago I bought a big beautiful artificial Christmas Tree. Mrs. B. commandeered it, and I only see it one day a year, on the set of the Children's Christmas Play in Lexington, MO.

That's OK. Christmas Play day is my favorite time of the holidays. To see the faces and smiles on those little kids always makes it a dusty day. Lots of those kids will get nothing, literally nothing for Christmas. We give them candy and have drawings for toys. My wife's been doing the Christmas play for Lexington kids for 30 years now. She's a saint.

I hadn't either but apparently its a thing

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Well I'll be damned. Looks good. :thumb:

LMAO, the wrap job on that pole looks a little...haphazard

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I like it!!!

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There. I decorated.

Interesting

That looks expensive……

I bought the wife a bug....I get lights. As of now 3500.

No football for me until now. Been doing just that all frigging day..... ughhhh. Happy wife, happy life.

That looks exhausting.

Better have a beer.

I wish. Haven't had one since Labor Day weekend.

Winter sucks..

:spock: It's too early.

I agree.

My adult son keeps talking about getting a skeleton blowup for Halloween and then leaving it up for Christmas by decorating it as Jack Skelton from Nightmare Before Christmas. :)

We put up the Christmas tree and decorated the inside the Saturday after Thanksgiving. My youngest son, 14, brought all the bins in from the garage by himself without us having to ask. My oldest boy, 15, took them back to the garage Sunday morning. Again, we didn't have to ask. Color me shocked. I put the tree together, arrange the branches, and pass out ornaments to hang. The kids and wife do the decorating.

Somehow, this year I managed to drop and break an ornament that we got my oldest for his first Christmas. I felt like a complete dick as I sat there fixing it. It put the damper on the whole experience for me. After that, I didn't even feel like doing the outside lights. Maybe this weekend.

good for you!

Grab some egg nog and stream some Nat King Cole Christmas.