At what time of the year to start putting out the light's, It's not even Thank's Giveing and the light's are going up and on. are we rushing it or what?
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started putting mine up yesterday. probably won't plug them to the auto-timer till dec 1st.
figured i would do it while we are having some nice weather . usually when i get around to putting them up it is 30 degrees and snowing or something.
figured i would do it while we are having some nice weather . usually when i get around to putting them up it is 30 degrees and snowing or something.
I couldnt agree more. I absolutely HATE the Holiday season. MInd you, it's not the spirit of the season, nor seeing old friends and family, nor the religious segment of it. IT"S THE COMMERCIALIZATION!!!
You have Christmas being stuffed down your throat before Halloween. COME ON PEOPLE. By the time the big day actually gets here, you cant wait for life to return to normal after New Year's. People get beligerent in parking lots, in check out lines, in traffic. Everyone is stressed out about what to buy for whom, and will the person like it, how to pay for it all, etc. Add to that crummy, wet, miserable weather, so you cant even go outside to throw a rope on a dummy (steerhead for roping practice, not the cart boys at WalMart) or take a walk or horse ride to clear your mind. No wonder the suicide rate goes up around the holidays. Has nothing to do with being lonely or dejected; it's just to escape all the madness... . HWhite- I'd put them up the week after Thanksgiving, (or turn them on then- know several people here who never take them down), then leave them till New Years or so. Take them down after Easter.
Happy Holidays
well I started last Friday to put the lights and was finished Thursday, no not that many just not enough light to do it when I come home from work. I plugged them in Thursday night.
dpuckett I know what you mean about the shopping and the parking lots and all that **%t. I to lost the Christmas season a few years ago. My theory is I don't need a season to give some one a gift, if I like you and I know you need something or would like something I just go and by it. You don't need a season to be nice, just do it because you like the person. Thats the way I am.
MIKE
dpuckett I know what you mean about the shopping and the parking lots and all that **%t. I to lost the Christmas season a few years ago. My theory is I don't need a season to give some one a gift, if I like you and I know you need something or would like something I just go and by it. You don't need a season to be nice, just do it because you like the person. Thats the way I am.
MIKE
Please let me clarify my previous comment. I should have been more carefull in stating my thoughts.
To me, Christmas is a time to celibrate the birth of Jesus, who came to Earth so that he could die so that I can have eternal life. It is also a time for family, and for sharing with each other. I am pretty much a Schrouge about lights and decorations and the commercial aspect of Christmas. My feelings should not be taken in a negative way by those who enjoy decorations, etc. I certainly have no problem with anyone who does these things. Carry on.
To me, Christmas is a time to celibrate the birth of Jesus, who came to Earth so that he could die so that I can have eternal life. It is also a time for family, and for sharing with each other. I am pretty much a Schrouge about lights and decorations and the commercial aspect of Christmas. My feelings should not be taken in a negative way by those who enjoy decorations, etc. I certainly have no problem with anyone who does these things. Carry on.
Since it was nice and warm out today, I decided to hang our four foot tall lighted star on the front of the house. It took me all of five minutes to get it done.
I put it in a new place this year, on the front wall of the first floor. Normally the star goes under the peak of the roof on the second floor, but my son-in-law climbed a ladder to hang it there last year and I never got around to run an extension cord to it, so it stayed dark all through Christmas. I didn't dare ask him to hang it up there again
I saw one of those lights that sits in the yard and shines little specks of light on the walls, to similate snow fall. That sounds like an easy decoration to me. Maybe I get one.
Doc
I put it in a new place this year, on the front wall of the first floor. Normally the star goes under the peak of the roof on the second floor, but my son-in-law climbed a ladder to hang it there last year and I never got around to run an extension cord to it, so it stayed dark all through Christmas. I didn't dare ask him to hang it up there again
I saw one of those lights that sits in the yard and shines little specks of light on the walls, to similate snow fall. That sounds like an easy decoration to me. Maybe I get one.
Doc
Originally posted by dpuckett
... People get beligerent in parking lots, in check out lines, in traffic. Everyone is stressed out about what to buy for whom, and will the person like it, how to pay for it all, etc. Add to that crummy, wet, miserable weather, so you cant even go outside to throw a rope on a dummy (steerhead for roping practice, not the cart boys at WalMart) or take a walk or horse ride to clear your mind. No wonder the suicide rate goes up around the holidays. Has nothing to do with being lonely or dejected; it's just to escape all the madness... .
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Happy Holidays
I enjoy Christmas thoroughly, however, I do not look forward to the "shopping" part. Usually I hit the stores only when I need to, and I plan my attack carefully. I go in the entrance closest to the item(s) I need to get, go get it(them) and leave. Mainly I do this because of the rude people in the stores. As far as the parking lot goes, I usually just park further out and have not yet had a problem with anyone wanting the spot I'm in. I can walk just fine, thank you... the people who think they can't walk NEED those closer spots more than I do.
About the decor, we usually take our time on the Friday after Thanksgiving to hang lights and such. I do my parents' house, then I do mine. Normally, some time during the week between Xmas and New Year's we'll take everything down.
Duane
Glad im not the only one, the wife said I was a scrooge, Wal-mart has had the Christmas thang going on since aug, by December im ready for the forth of july. Harv
Klenger
I agree. Christmas is soooo commercialized. Its too bad that is how it is viewed anymore. As far as the lights go, I wont let the wife turn them on until after Thanksgiving is over, but the lights are up now as the weather finally cooperated. Don
I agree. Christmas is soooo commercialized. Its too bad that is how it is viewed anymore. As far as the lights go, I wont let the wife turn them on until after Thanksgiving is over, but the lights are up now as the weather finally cooperated. Don
I showed the wife this thread (specifically your post) and she thought I wrote it! She could't believe someone else hated the holidays as much as I do, let alone for the same reasons! Too bad a guy couldn't hibernate from Halloween till New years day... ...
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Anything that gets people to take even a few seconds to think about the birth of Jesus Christ and showing a bit of good will toward their fellow men, is all right by me.
I like the decorations, the music, the family time together, the whole 9 yards. Guess I am like Scrooge's nephew. The only part that annoys me is the crowding of the areas around mall etc, but then again I am a country boy and I don't like crowding of any sort much at all.
I try to ignore the bad stuff and concentrate on the good. For example, taking the wife and kids to town for last minute shopping (always seems to happen no matter how hard you try). Standing in the mall, looking at all the passers-by, tired and ready to go home for peace and quiet, not really taking much pleasure in what's going on around you, when one of your little ones begins to jump around with excitement. "Look Dad, there's Santa!" Immediately you remember what it was like to be their age, and imagine how exciting the hustle and bustle must be to them. And that easily, you are again enjoying the moment and the decorations and music take on a little extra shine.
The enjoyable things stick with you, and the annoyances fade from memory (at least for me). I look back at Christmases of the past and remember so many good times:
- The excitement of my first BB gun
- Being with my grandparents, how I wish I could see them again
- The first Christmas my wife and I spent together
- The first Christmas when each child is old enough to really know what is going on and get excited
- Reading the Christmas story from Luke to the family on a cold, crisp night
- Going to look at Christmas lights with my brother-in-law, who was lost to leukemia in 1997
- Standing in the back yard as a boy with my new little telescope on an absolutely crystal clear Christmas night, with stars burning bright and strong in the cold air, thinking of the Christmas story and wondering what that star must have looked like over Bethlehem, wondering how God could work on a scale simultaneously so huge and so small.
- Reaching the age when suddenly the classic carols (We Three Kings, O Holy Night, etc) made sense and became even more enjoyable than the Santa carols
- Seeing the kids in the Christmas play at church
- Hunting the day after Christmas, with a new rifle in hand and the frozen ground hard beneath the boots, frost on the grass like diamonds (never any snow though here in Texas)
- Making my Dad for days with the racket of my Electro-Shot Shooting Gallery one Christmas, boy I had fun with that thing
Can you tell I like Christmas?! 
I like the decorations, the music, the family time together, the whole 9 yards. Guess I am like Scrooge's nephew. The only part that annoys me is the crowding of the areas around mall etc, but then again I am a country boy and I don't like crowding of any sort much at all.
I try to ignore the bad stuff and concentrate on the good. For example, taking the wife and kids to town for last minute shopping (always seems to happen no matter how hard you try). Standing in the mall, looking at all the passers-by, tired and ready to go home for peace and quiet, not really taking much pleasure in what's going on around you, when one of your little ones begins to jump around with excitement. "Look Dad, there's Santa!" Immediately you remember what it was like to be their age, and imagine how exciting the hustle and bustle must be to them. And that easily, you are again enjoying the moment and the decorations and music take on a little extra shine.
The enjoyable things stick with you, and the annoyances fade from memory (at least for me). I look back at Christmases of the past and remember so many good times:
- The excitement of my first BB gun
- Being with my grandparents, how I wish I could see them again
- The first Christmas my wife and I spent together
- The first Christmas when each child is old enough to really know what is going on and get excited
- Reading the Christmas story from Luke to the family on a cold, crisp night
- Going to look at Christmas lights with my brother-in-law, who was lost to leukemia in 1997
- Standing in the back yard as a boy with my new little telescope on an absolutely crystal clear Christmas night, with stars burning bright and strong in the cold air, thinking of the Christmas story and wondering what that star must have looked like over Bethlehem, wondering how God could work on a scale simultaneously so huge and so small.
- Reaching the age when suddenly the classic carols (We Three Kings, O Holy Night, etc) made sense and became even more enjoyable than the Santa carols
- Seeing the kids in the Christmas play at church
- Hunting the day after Christmas, with a new rifle in hand and the frozen ground hard beneath the boots, frost on the grass like diamonds (never any snow though here in Texas)
- Making my Dad
for days with the racket of my Electro-Shot Shooting Gallery one Christmas, boy I had fun with that thingCan you tell I like Christmas?!
i'm still workin on it but here's what i got so far. next job is on the roof of the house
the kids like it
the kids like it
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