People who leave decorations up

[LucyDuke]

Wrapping paper`s a waste of paper, but people aren`t going to stop using it soon.

This year I did two things, and used no wrapping paper.

One of them was origami boxes. Yeah, they're paper, but they're nice enough that the recipient will probably keep 'em around for at least a little while, if only as a box for the stuff that came in them.

The other was proper jewelry boxes, one set made from store-bought wood boxes that I painted to match the jewelry inside, so they'd persist as jewelry boxes; the other set made from cut and glued light cardboard, glued glued glued and painted to harmonize with the contents. I doubt they'll be thrown away or even regifted, considering they were quite personalized.



Moral of the story: make the container part of the gift.

 

[jessiecat]

You never heard of The Wicker Man?!?!

Yah. Now that's what I call a lawn ornament!

 

[Jan H]

I thought you were supposed to leave the Christmas tree until January 6th, because that is "Three Kings' Day" (Epiphany in English?). You're not supposed to put the little king statues in your nativity scene until this day...

 

[Ulyaoth]

I put the kings in my nativity set but had them all the way in the back slowly inching forward every day until they're up right next to baby Jesus by the Epiphany.

 

[Sharwood]

One year, my mom put up the lights and kept them up until September, at which point she took them down for some odd reason.

Please tell me she put them back upp again for Christmas that year. Preferably early.

 

[Brighteye]

There's nothing wrong with having Christmas decorations up from the beginning of advent until Epiphany.
That's 36 days, which is close to one tenth of the year. It seems to work quite nicely.

 

[jessiecat]

There's nothing wrong with having Christmas decorations up from the beginning of advent until Epiphany.
That's 36 days, which is close to one tenth of the year. It seems to work quite nicely.

Does one tenth of a year have some hidden meaning? Have we gone decimal or something?

 

[Brighteye]

I was just pointing out that it's not an indecent amount of time. The church asks for one tenth of your income, so why not tell you to celebrate for one tenth of the year?

 

[Sharwood]

I was just pointing out that it's not an indecent amount of time. The church asks for one tenth of your income, so why not tell you to celebrate for one tenth of the year?

Technically they already force you to go one seventh of the year.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

I have never seen a church that forced anyone to go . . .

 

[Sharwood]

I have never seen a church that forced anyone to go . . .

If you want to get into heaven you have to go every Sunday for the rest of your life.

 

[GoodGame]

People that pay rent and taxes have a right to post crap on their property as long as it's secure.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

People that pay rent and taxes have a right to post crap on their property as long as it's secure.

Sure, but that doesn't mean it's not ugly.

 

[Irish Caesar]

Technically they already force you to go one seventh of the year.

Well, that implies you'd be there the whole day...

With a church service of about an hour, it's only 1/168 of the year...

 

[LucyDuke]

Man, I'm not into Jesus at all, but I sure miss my great-grandmother putting up her nativity scene. The place she put it, that's where we put the mail now. Stupid mail.

People that pay rent and taxes have a right to post crap on their property as long as it's secure.

Not if their HOA says they don't.

 

[Dachs]

Yeah, people should take down their stuff today at latest.

 

[downtown]

Given the choice, I prefer homes decorated in January to stores and radio stations blasting Christmas music in November.

Word. Its enough for me to keep my iPod in while I'm *inside* the store.

 

[RalofTyr]

What? I still have my Halloween decorations up.

 

[Irish Caesar]

Word. Its enough for me to keep my iPod in while I'm *inside* the store.

I had to put the soft rock station as one of my presets over Thanksgiving... there weren't five other stations that weren't playing Christmas music.