November 14, 2006 • Print This Post
In our house, we have certain little things we do to get ready for the holidays. 
It starts with Halloween, when we put up the pumpkin flag and hang up various “Trick or Treat” type signs.
Then November 1st, the pumpkin flag comes down and the turkey flag goes up. Harvest-type decorations come out. Not many, just a couple. Inside the house, the regular white plates get put away and the apple plates come out. (I have several sets of place settings, because my mom is always buying them for me)
December 1st, the turkey flag comes down and the Peanuts gang Santa flag comes out. Wreaths, red bows, and white lights decorate the outside. Inside, various pine decorations and candles come out. We have a fake tree (I know that horrifies some *g*), so we need to create the smell of Christmas some other way. The apple plates get put away for another year, and the poinsettia plates come out. We use them all month long, not just on Christmas day, because that seems like such a waste to use a place setting only one day a year. (though I do have some settings that sit in the china cabinet and never get used at all.)
January 2nd, everything gets taken down and put away. (and I’m usually glad to see it all go at that point, despite how excited I was to pull it all out just weeks before.)
How do you get ready for the holidays? 
Posted by Sylvia Day @ 1:17 pm • Filed under: Sylvia Day
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I have a couple of things for Halloween but don’t really decorate until Christmas. Then I put out decorations all through the house.
I am completely with you Sylvia. I love any and all holidays and decorate for all. We go all out for Halloween and then Thanksgiving looks like we should have a harvest party. However, Christmas is the holiday of holidays. The day after Thanksgiving is when we put up the tree and all the decorations. I go all out, even our bathrooms with be decorated. The day after Christmas everything starts to go away. By the 1st of the new year my house is clean and we start the new year off with a clean and organized house. That only lasts a day or two, but I always want to start the year off right.
Patty,
We do the bathrooms, too! Towels, candles, and such! So much fun. I love the holidays.
There is just my husband and me, so we don’t decorate much. Just placemats for each holiday.
Now that there is just me, I don’t decorate the house up too much, but when the kids were home and I had a lot of Company coming I used to go all out.
I’m not too into the decorating. The tree will go up the weekend after Thanksgiving. My thing is that during December and even part of November, I’ll be constantly listening to Christmas music.
I’ve got a ton of Christmas CDs and this is the only time of year I can enjoy them without seeming strange. So, I go all out.
decorate and cook. so much fun
Decorations and music!…and of course holiday romances
Oh!, and cookies