Deck The Halls

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Do you decorate at Christmas? A tree? Tinsel? Cards on a wall? Fairylights? Great big glowing plastic Santa faces and fake snow all over your walls? What? Do you get annoyed at other people's decorations?

― Tom, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

We have a pine tree with silver tinsel,silver, gold and magenta ornaments, magenta lights. Then we have pine and holly bows on all the doors and cranberry , popcorn bows on the walls near the chrsitmas tree. We have a wreath on the door and lights on the fire escape/balcony.

― anthony, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

mark s: my abode will be half in prep for GRATE WINTER FEAST - but that wd surely be of interest to you
VdR: What * you mean you*ve got lost of food in? Or does it mean filthy english christmas decs?
(VdR = Dutch btw)

― mark s, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

its Christmas man, you've got to have decorations up. and loads. tinsel and all that shit. we've already got ours up because all the decorations for the party (streamers and fairy lights and stuff) are now going to double up as christmas decorations.

― gareth, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

no decorations but my flatmate is just gagging to put spangly christmas lights up. The only way you could convince me to decorate is if there was a competition running at which point I would overload the national grid by hooking up too many laughing, glowing santas and placing them in a phalanx on the front lawn

― Menelaus Darcy, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Only at work. We have paper chains, the proper ones which you lick. And tinsel. I have lovely red tinsel round my monitor. We have a tiny Christmas tree too, which has lights which don't work coz there's no plug.

― MarkH, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

usually. certainly in my lovely old flat. nice tree. >sniff< not this year tho >whimper<

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Lixi isn't celebrating Christmas this year so she won't decorate. And I'm a lazy bugger and also a HUMBUG so I bet I will just forget which is a bit of a shame. We have office decorations but haven't put them up. There's no tinsel going over MY monitor. I do however like the spray on snow you put on windows. MMMMMM, AEROSOL. Shit. Cards. Oh god. Presents. Waaaaaaaaaah.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Our hall already has decking down, so that's alright.

― Pete, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There are fairy lights in the weeping fig. How's THAT for bathos?

― Mark C, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nothing, no tree no tat, I'm the Grinch.

― chris, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm grinchier than Cabbage. He, after all, is a decoration in himself. I am neither use nor ornament.

― Tim, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tim, you say the sweetest things sometimes. I think.

― chris, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I found this awesome set of Hello Kitty Christmas lights this year, so of course I simply had to put them up last weekend.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mmm, decorations. My brother will nick all the chocolates off the tree, the fairy will be all lopsided and I'll be picking pine needles out of my ass in March. Marvellous.

(I like it, really! ;-))

― Will, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't decorate where I live, neither do my housemates, but my parents have an extremely good eye for tasteful holiday stuff. No outside light, beautiful tree ornaments, and just enough red and green things around the place to feel just right. Bless.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That reminds me, I ought to go round my parents' house on Sunday and put their tree up, as they'll just grumble and avoid doing it until Xmas eve otherwise. I shall also shame them by taking all my ALREADY BOUGHT AND WRAPPED pressies over. Ha!

― Mark C, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Last year I bought little foil-wrapped chocolates and hung them all over Nick's vase of twigs. He has asked me to do the same again this year and I will not disappoint.

― Madchen, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When I suggested some festive paper chains Pete said 'yes we could make them out of newspaper so it would be lovely and cheap' the old Scrooge. My colleague suggested making them out of bog roll demonstrating his lack of understanding of the tense bog roll politics in our flat. It seems pretty pointless as we aren't going to be there over Xmas and will be out partying every night between now and returning to our respective parents. Yeah right....

― Emma, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

We bought blue and white lights but haven't put them up yet. I've done cards and I think Hank wants to get a tree. We still have Halloween decorations up though.

― Samantha, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Isabel and I will be decorating my flat tomorrow with a little tree and tinsel and other such things.

― Tom, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In my window I have 100 white fairy lights, a 2' fibre optic christmas tree (unlit), topped by Psyduck. I have also covered my whole ceiling in 400 more white lights (except for the bus-shelter- sized Pokemon poster up there, which is surrounded by 80 flickering coloured ones. Quite a spread really.

I think all the stuff on my ceiling is staying put after Christmas though (fairy lights = ace).

― Graham, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My brother made this angel out of paper plates for school. It has long fangs and tiny red eyes and blood is pouring from its open mouth. It holds a banner that reads "Peace". This is the front and center decoration yearly, and rightly so.

― 1 1 2 3 5, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Er, has anyone actually decked their halls with boughs of holly? I'm going to, if I can find a pair of secateurs - there's a fine holly tree with masses of berries about 300 yards from my house. Unfortunately it's right on the South Circular, so people will see me, but I noticed from the cut stems that someone's already beaten me to it.

― Mark C, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My dad spends the days before Xmas scouring the Bucks countryside for holly with plenty of berries so he can revel in the admiration of our guests. Some years it is tougher than others. He likes to give the impression he is a poor serf who has scavenged from the holly bushes of an evil squire rather than a middle aged Brummie who is too tight to buy it from a garden centre like everyone else. He plonks the holly on a blanket in the hall and the cat thinks 'oh good somewhere for me to hide dead mice'. We then have to wear slippers for the rest of Xmas in case we tread on bits he has left lying around.

― Emma, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The fake tree comes out of the shed. The ancient fairy lights. The tinsel, the borbles etc. My room usually gets a bit of tinsel and left over bits and bobs. Cards...I hardly get any, coz I don't send many.

― james, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Last year I had a lovely tree with lovely shiny blown glass Xmas ornaments and candy canes (no tinsel as I have a kitty) and lights. Then I had "pine" sprigs over all the windows and mistletoe over every doorway (I think one is still up, by accident and laziness) and red ribbons tying the pine. And I have plates that have all the reindeer on them.

This year I don't really think I'm going to do much. No room for a tree. I might throw up the pine again, it looked very nice. And I'll use the reindeer plates at Christmas.

― Ally, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i shipped a box of it from Victoria . So we have decked our doors with bows of holly.

― anthony, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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