Does decorating tick anyone else off?

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lorihart

Cathlete
I hate to ruin the mood and I love Christmas just as much as anyone else but decorating that TREE gets me everytime!x( I just bought a new tree top and I CANNOT figure out how to put it up there.I hate being cranky when I am suppose to be cheerful but sometimes decorating takes every ounce of happiness out of me!
Anyone else get like this or am I the only one with a short fuse?
Lori
 
I 'HEAR" you sister!

Also at the risk of sounding and being a "Christmas Humbug" myself, here goes:

We have a angle for the top of the tree and it NEVER EVER stays upright, so it ends up looking like the poor old angles had 'ONE TOO MANY"

I also never have to vacume so much in my life - unless its Christmas and I have a shredding tree and tinsile loss - and I find that just another irritating chore

Also I spend a long time re-threading the strings every year on the ordements so I can hang them back on the tree - haaaaaaaaaa (sigh)

Marion


x(
 
Decorating doesn't bother me - I enjoy that. It's crowds I hate - I get claustrophobic in big crowds (probably because I'm so short). I try to get all my shopping done before Thanksgiving. You know what you might want to try? Drink a bottle of wine while you're putting up the tree. Everything is more fun with a good buzz!:)
 
> I really hate decorating also. Reminds me of the song "The
>12 pains of Christmas"


DH and I cannot have a tree - three cats, you know. The tree would lose the war before it even got in the door - haha!

What are the 12 pains of Christmas?

Susan L.G.

Edited to add:

Here's a link - I hope it works!

http://lightoflove.net/12PainsOfCmas.htm
 
We have an artificial tree as my son and I have allergies. Two years ago I bought a new tree that already has lights on it as I hate putting the lights on. It looks really good. Anyway, this thing is such a pain to put up because the limbs are very scratchy. I now have scratches on both my forearms. Next year I need to remember to put on long sleeves before putting up the tree. I got the tree up, plugged in the lights, and it looked great. Yesterday evening I plugged the tree and some of the lights were not on. It says on the box that a light can go out and still the others are supposed to work. So I was definitely upset about that. Instead of wasting my time trying to find out if one was not working (as there are a lot), I just decided not to worry about. I finished decorating it today and it looks really nice. I'm not even sure if anyone will notice if I don't tell them. BUT STILL, it is very irritating for something like that to happen.

I came back to add that my husband does the outside decorations and it is better to leave him alone and not even try to help. When the kids were small, I tried to keep them in house or they would learn a new language. ;-)
 
Yes Donna great advice. wine is good with everything! i personally put up five trees which i realize sounds a bit maniacal, but i love the finished product. It is alot of work and even worse to take down but hey, you only have to do it once a year right! in my house dh is not aloud to help. he dosen't mind one bit. }(

jes
 
I don't mind the decorating too much but I have to wait until I'm in the mood for it, which seems to be later and later every year. It's just one more thing to do when there is a hundred other things to worry about.

I had to laugh at DH this weekend though. He hates putting up the outside lights. He always waits for the most miserable day of the year with ice and snow and cold before he decides he should get out there and do it. There is ALWAYS a section of lights that don't work once they are up, even if he tests them first. We got some new icicle lights this year that were even more than the usual pain to put up. He finally finished and when I went out to look there was a section right in the middle of the new lights that was out. I just cracked up laughing. It looks stupid and obvious but that's the way it's going to stay. Just a testimony to the way things are.
 
I don't mind decorating. If it really bugs you, see if somebody else will do it or help you. Also, the idea about a glass of wine is a good one.
 
Glad I am not the only one.I can't get someone else to do it for me b/c its never right when someone else does it.
I think part of my problem is, I do it when I don't have alot of time.Prehaps if I had all day to fiddle with the tree it would be different but I started this last night and I knew that I wouldn't get it finished.When I went to put the balls on....there were none.DH can't find the box with the ribbon and bows.I hope its not lost, thats all I can say.
Lori
 
Five years ago, DH and I decided to not to do the tree thing because our Boxer was a puppy and way too rambunctious.

It was such a nice treat to NOT fight with three strings of lights and sweep up needles for two weeks, and then NOT have to haul the undecorated carcass out of the house in freezing weather afterwards.

We're continuing our no tree tradition. It's very liberating!
 
DH would enjoy this thread. He has never been a real "CHRISTMAS" person. He sees it as Commercialism gone wild. The supposed true meaning of Christmas is lost in the shopping scene. I have to say, since my daughter is grown and I don't have the Christmas pressure I used to, I agree with him wholeheartedly.

Poor guy does what he can to help. Last year he checked all the lights before he put them on the house and spent 3 hours to put them up. When we turned them on, only half of them worked. He was so bummed.

This year, no way. We decided we are not going to put ourselves through this anymore (and plus I didn't want him to have a nervous breakdown). I bought a pre-lit Florida Palm tree, we put a few ornaments on it and that was that. We also have a lighted Santa in one of our windows. That's enough!

It was very liberating. I could even almost look forward to doing it next year:7 .
 
I have a tree trimming party every year. That way I have lots of help, and it's a great way to get new decorations! ;)
 
We don't do the outside decorating, but I sure do love to look at other people's hard work. There's this one beautiful house about a mile from mine that sits up on a hill. They always do an elaborate, but not a bit tacky, light display. It's more than a mile past my house in a direction I never go, but I always drive down a couple times each year to check it out. There are always a few cars pulled over to the side to look. My dd loves to go!
 
We bought one of those three foot, fibre optic trees this year. I placed it on top of a stereo speaker in the den and decorated it with shatterproof decorations. It has a color wheel inside and it changes colors and is so pretty. That is going to be our tree this year and we love it.

When Christmas is over, I will stuff it down into its box and that will be it! Yes, I agree, very liberating.


Love,
Madonna
 
I hear it on the radio and downloaded the song once, but when my son was 3 years old he would throw a fit and push our tree down everytime, broke everything plus the tree and had to get a new one a few years ago.
But in that song it has a phrase "stringing up the lights"
 
I absolutely LOVE decorating for christmas so I can't feel the pain here!!!! But I must say that I HATE taking them down after New Year's Day! I do alot of decorating inside and out with tons of lights, so it's really depressing when you get used to having lot of bright, sparkly decorations and lights and then they're gone and the house looks so plain!! That's the part of winter that I hate, b/c after New Year's Day the festivities are over and it's just plain cold and dreary until March. But I absolutely adore the holidays!:)
 
> Also, the idea about a
>glass of wine is a good one.
I believe she said a BOTTLE! hahaha I'll go with her "number".
 
I love to decorate. I decorate for every season and holiday at my house. Luckly, I must find trees to fit my stands and lights that alway work.
Susan C.M.
 
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