just not interested it seems
By marie2052
@marie2052 (3691)
United States
November 17, 2012 8:03pm CST
I went through years and years of decorating for the holidays.
Now that my children are grown it seems I just dont seem to have the interest to decorate.
Thanksgiving is this Thursday and I should be decorating my mantel and bringing out my illuminated Xmas tree that is about 3 ft tall.
My grandbabies are in Kansas and I am in Florida. Already got them their gifts and had shipped directly to them so I am trying to get excited about just decorating a bit for my husbands mother and law but I when I read more and more people with families losing their jobs, I just feel so bad for them and the Sandy hurricane I just dont have it in me this year to feel so cheerful.
Is everyone else excited about decorating for the holidays?
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@marie2052 (3691)
• United States
21 Nov 12
I hear you. After raising 5 kids, and husbands just sit and watch you do everything I think there comes a time in a woman's life she has had enough LOL!
@cerebellum (3863)
• United States
18 Nov 12
I can't say I am excited about it, it is just something I have to do. I used to love to decorate, but since I have gotten older, it's just a chore. It seems like a waste sometimes, because I do all this work and then very few people see it. A couple of my friends and I take turns at each other's homes. It is my turn this year. When it is not, I decorate, but don't bother with a tree. It is only a 3 foot fiber optic and isn't hard, but where I have to put it now, I don't see much of it anyway.
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@marie2052 (3691)
• United States
21 Nov 12
Yea I know you have friends over.
Friends here in florida are not like midwest.
We have so many transit people that it is very hard to make a friend to keep.
I have not put anything up. I might dig the 2 angels I have and sit on the mantle.
But I think this year has been so stressful the holiday season is just not there this year.
@BarBaraPrz (45594)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
18 Nov 12
Can't say as I've ever been much for decorating the house for Christmas... certainly never had lights on the house. I do have white "fairy lights" on the arbor out front, but they stay up all year, and are solar powered. I put up my cross-stitched stocking on the mantle, even though no one puts anything in it (maybe because I have an ancient teddy bear stuffed in the top).
I wait until December, though, before putting anything out that isn't out year-round.
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@marie2052 (3691)
• United States
21 Nov 12
Oh Barb you are awesome LOL
I decorated my mantle with a silver and blue garland and white lights. I could leave it up and used it for a nightlight throughout the year. And I got away with it cause it just looked nice cause it was silver and blue LOL
