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I barely decorate for holidays, but this year, I feel driven.

 

Being that christmas is my least favourite - I consider it kinda boring and overly serious, and I worked retail, in a mall; I have decided to try something different. A merger of sorts. A Hallowe'en tree!

 

I may swap over the decorations toward the christmas holiday - to my decepticon three (purple themed)

 

I am still trying to obtain a larger tree - preferably black.

 

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I am hoping this is not a repeat thread. I do not want to scroll back to christmas to look anyway.

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I don't really decorate either, and I probably won't since I'm leading the busy and low-budget student life (the cobwebs already here are spooky enough, lol)

 

Sometimes I wish the DC forums had a 'Like' feature so I could like this photo, then unlike it to like it again. It's magnificent!

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That Halloween tree is awesome!

 

We don't really decorate for Halloween, except for one pumpkin. But my mom *loves* decorating for Christmas and we usually end up decorating really early. We always have a blue theme, because that was my grandma's favorite color and she died close to Christmas. A couple years ago we finally caved in and got a fake tree, which turns out to be a million times easier then a real one.

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My family doesn't ever decorate, Halloween is generally not celebrated as much as Christmas or other Chinese holidays in China. I think your idea of a merge is really cool xd.png

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Halloween isn't celebrated in Estonia, so its up to me to buy small pumpkins and other halloween stuff to decorate my room. We buy and decorate a christmas tree, we put fairy lights around, we put tinsel on furniture and hang a really small wreath on our door. My birthday is right after christmas, so its really nice to celebrate in a christmassy atmosphere. We also make roast, black pudding, sauerkraut, potatoes, gingerbreads and mulled wine and eat mandarins

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At my house we don't do any decorating indoors, but we usually toss a few plastic tombstones out in the yard like, the day before Halloween. xd.png

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When I was a kid we used to decorate the garage with stuff. We had this thing, that had two rods and when plugged in it arched with electricity. It was dangerous, from my understanding, and very heavy.

 

My mum made this massive hairy spider out of faux fur and pipe cleaners. We had it on an elastic and as my bedroom window was right above the garage. My mum would drop the spider down in amongst the trick or treaters and fun would be had by all.... Except one kid.

 

One kid marched up, an older kid, and fearlessly opened his bag. At this point the spider dropped. Entered the bag and flung back up. The kid dropped his bag and turned and hoofed it down the street. My sister's boyfriend, (now brother in law) went off running after the kid, and brought him back to get his bag.

 

As a teen I organised two haunted house events and just a few days short of my 16th I broke my leg. Only got three houses in.

 

As for Christmas, the magic doesn't touch me very often. I think I hang onto a memory that goes back to when I was possibly 2 or 3 years old. My parents had this tree, that was about 6 feet tall, we had it for years and years. It had massive pink thread covered balls, each ball was stuck with clear plastic crystal beads and other beads making them sort of spiky - yet very pretty. The tree was covered in these. Under the tree, my parents had gifts wrapped in this super shiny paper (Mylar) with a dull pink underside. I recall this stuff as my mother worked at Mississauga news and this Mylar was some sort of by product of the printing process. We had to wipe printing off the pink side. In the 70's it was pretty awesome to have seriously shiny presents. In the tree we also had a silver ball that when turned on sounded like a cardinal singing. It was decorated in clear lights.

 

It was just when recall that christmas, it was pure magic. I toddled out into the living room to see this silvery and pink object standing there, with heaps of shining gifts under it. I have no memory of the tree before christmas. I think my parents left putting up the tree until as late as possible.

 

I think it was the following Christmas where I confused dear old st. nick. I sat on his lap and he asked me if I wanted a dolly. I remember this so so very well. I was appalled. And I put him right. Declaring in a loud voice that Dolls were for boys and Trucks were for girls. And that year I got a big metal tonka truck dump truck. I still have that truck.

 

What draws me to hallowe'en more than christmas these days is:

 

1. I worked in retail at the mall - christmas songs all day long and people in insane rushes. The music really did it for me, two months is far too long. It became old. And its the same few songs done in slightly different ways that gets boring.

 

2. Hallowe'en does not have a lot of associated music that plays over and over, Hallowe'en is really just set up in October and is gone shortly after November 1.

 

3. Hallowe'en Infinitely more versatile for creativity .

 

4. Hallowe'en is less serious.

 

One christmas I went very bah humbug. But in order to not spoil it for others, I wore a black "scrooge" hat with gold berries on it - as opposed to the red santa hat every one else on the team wore. People thought I was festive. I gave the world my big bah humbug. win win. Its settled down a bit since I have not been in retail.

 

I generally don't put a tree up though mostly because of the nature of my pets. Last christmas I put up the tree in purple - I likely will swap ornaments mid november. But I have a pet pigeon, and I used to have an iguana. Birds land on trees, and Iguanas are arboreal by nature. Nothing is worse than trying to untangle your lizard from all manner of ornaments and make sure he's not hurt while hunting for your precious glass pickle. Yes, the pickle ornament in the christmas event was mine. Alas, I need a new pickle. or a gherkin for the tiny tree I have.

 

thats what we/I do for those holidays.

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It's a shame that Halloween isn't actually celebrated here (even though the stores sell all kinds of Halloweeny stuff), so we don't decorate too much due to that. Luckily I have these two cute little pumpkin candleholders that I take into my room whenever it's close to the Halloween season. They're in my room already, they actually brighten up my mood because they're cute and smiley. I also have a rubbery skeleton that just has to be somewhere during the Halloween season. Usually close to the pumpkin thingies.

There's a bunch of other decorations too, but we don't use them so often anymore. I'm glad they still exist, though. ~

 

But as for Christmas decorations - we have a lot of them. biggrin.gif Christmas must be the grandest of the celebrations we celebrate (What a strange sentence). Even though we don't start decorating until about the 10th of December, we always have many decorations, every year. I love Christmas and I love decorations, so the Christmas season has been my favorite since what-even-was-that-year, which means since quite many years.

Even though many people seem to dislike the Christmas songs that play everywhere even a month in advance, I can't help but love it. They make me happy and raise my spirit a lot.

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We don't celebrate Halloween and I don't see the need for decorating. Only stores decorate their facilities as Halloween is just a theme to commercialise, much like Christmas. dry.gif Kind of disheartening seeing the essence of the holiday is nearly forgotten.

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Halloween isn't really celebrated here, but I have a cool tea light holder with a black cat wearing a witch's hat, so that fits the theme! I will probably burn candles (like I wouldn't do that already).

 

But don't get me started on Christmas decorations!! I absolutely adore Christmas, it's my fave holiday. I'll try to get my small student apartment look as festive as possible with as little money as possible, but when I'm at my parents' place I'll get to decorate the whole place with everything they got! Oh god now I'm wishing it was Christmas already...

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that's fantastic!

 

i dislike christmas quite strongly. but i basically celebrate the entire month of october as halloween. halloween is definitely best, because i don't have to decorate. i've already got the decorations up year round smile.gif plus, all the candy gets discounted and/or sent off to the dollar tree!

 

i do actually celebrate samhain though. i like to honor the dead.

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I love Christmas.

I just hate how much of the year Christmas gobbles up.

My friends have already started decorating.

...for Christmas. -.-

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I absolutely ADORE that Halloween tree! I love Halloween! I usually make some little ghosts and pumpkins and hang them up.

 

For Christmas I just put up the tree and a little tinsel here and there. I do love Christmas as we always get together and have an amazing dinner and some wine, but Halloween is my favorite. I love making my house spooky!

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I don't decorate for Halloween, and not a whole lot for Christmas either except putting up a tree and displaying the Christmas cards that we get around the living room.

 

I have a friend who puts up a Christmas tree with different themed decorations in every single room in her house except the bathrooms! They are beautiful but boy, just the thought of doing that makes me feel exhausted!

 

 

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In each room could be fun. We used to have one as the main tree, and one as a visitor/guest tree. And I always had one in my bedroom.

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