I can't believe I have my outside decorations up!

@jillhill (37354)
United States
November 11, 2009 3:50pm CST
It's in the 60's today...very unusual for Minnesota on Nov. 11.....so I took the opportunity to put up my outside decorations.....it was fun and very nice to do without freezing my hands! LOL....have you gotten your outside decorations up for Christmas yet?
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@palonghorn (5479)
• United States
13 Nov 09
I'm not sure if she has gotten her outside decorations up, but my daughter has her inside decorations done. She has 3 trees up and decorated. However, there is another reason to her early decorating other than just getting anxious about Christmas time. She got an early start so that her husband will be able to enjoy the decorations, he will be deployed early December, so he won't be home for Christmas this year.
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@jillhill (37354)
• United States
17 Nov 09
OH NO! I wish the best to him and everyone that has to go with him...my son in laws have both been over there already...! Hope things go well for him and he has a speedy return home!
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@minnie_98214 (10557)
• United States
11 Nov 09
I dont really do outdoor decorations just dont really get into it that much. In fact this year we wont even be setting up a tree due to savanna shes at that age where the tree will be one big headache.
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• United States
12 Nov 09
Im around I pop into a discussion or two. Savanna is doing good. Shes still a tiny little girl she doesnt want to grow up. She is walking all over the place getting into everything. I am gonna try to add a picture cause well shes so cute.
@AmbiePam (92536)
• United States
12 Nov 09
There you are! I wondered how you were doing.
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
12 Nov 09
I bet..is she walking etc?
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@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
11 Nov 09
Lol no I do nt put outside Decorations up I never have I have to admit though I love seeing other Homes with the outside ones up some do them so nice it looks like Dream world
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@jillhill (37354)
• United States
12 Nov 09
I don't put up alot but just a lighted wreath....a lighted snowman and garland on my step railing....I would love to have more but just can't do it by myself....I like other houses though with tons of lights!
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• United States
17 Nov 09
No, not yet but I'm already in the Christmas mood already though. When I go home during Thanksgiving, I'll probably help my mother set up our Christmas tree and the plastic wreaths.
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
17 Nov 09
I bet she will love to have the help!
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
11 Nov 09
The 60's is very usual for here for this time of year. Our decorations will probably go up next month!
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@jillhill (37354)
• United States
12 Nov 09
AH......its early here but I won't turn on the lights until after Thanksgiving...
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@suzzy3 (8341)
13 Nov 09
Your a bit early ,we don't normally do ours till early december,mind you it must cheer the place up a bit.
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@jillhill (37354)
• United States
17 Nov 09
I won't turn the lights on until after thanksgiving.....but it's nice not to freeze my hands off to do it!
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@carolbee (16230)
• United States
12 Nov 09
Glad you had such good weather to get outside and get your decorations up for the holidays. You are one step ahead of many people. Nobody in our area have done any outside decorating yet. They will wait until it's freezing cold out there and the windy is brutal. We haven't decorated our house outside or inside since we have lived here. We don't celebrate Christmas with any kind of decorations or a tree. It was an adjustment I had to make the first year we were married. We do go to our daughter's who do have trees and decorate and celebrate. We are a mix and match family with religions..lol It all works very well.
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@jillhill (37354)
• United States
17 Nov 09
Glad it works for you!
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• Canada
15 Nov 09
I do the same thing... try to get the outside decorating done before it gets super cold (I'm in Canada). Missed a few perfect days for it already but hopefully next weekend it'll get done. It's just so unpleasant trying to deal with lights or, in my case, lighted trees when your hands are so cold that you can hardly feel what you're doing LOL I have several neighbors that get their stuff up early, as well, so I don't feel like my house sticks out in the neighborhood. One neighbor a few doors down, in fact, has those big blowup decorations on the front lawn so, every morning, there is all this flat material laying all over their grass LOL Then, at night, POOF! Up pops the Santa and the snow globe and all the others... they really sort of go a bit overboard actually
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• Canada
17 Nov 09
I love Christmas and the decorations and all and I really do try to decorate tastefully ... but I think the issue with my neighbors is that they buy all the "fad" decorations every year. Whatever is new, they get it... but they don't stop using any of their older items. So they end up with quite a mish mash of things going on. It's actually so busy looking that I don't think you can really appreciate any one thing. But, to each their own, I guess... I'm just glad I don't pay their electricity bill!
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
17 Nov 09
I know....there's a house near here that has a ton of those things too! A bit over the top!
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@AmbiePam (92536)
• United States
12 Nov 09
I won't be putting any outside because I live on the top floor of my aparment complex. I could get some kind of statue to sit in front of my door. It would have to be something fairly heavy so it wouldn't blow away. But then again, some of the troublemakers might end up stealing it. But I do have a lot of fun decorating the inside of the apartment. Maybe you can take some pictures of the outside decorations and post them here?
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@jillhill (37354)
• United States
17 Nov 09
I will do that...but there isn't much.....a lighted wreath...some garland on the stair rails....and a snowman that lights up...a small one I painted etc.
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@checapricorn (16061)
• United States
18 Nov 09
I have no decor outside, but I am done decorating inside the house! I love to have some decor outside but it's been so cold here lately!
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@jillhill (37354)
• United States
18 Nov 09
Woo Hoo! I thought about doing it today....I love Christmas and would like to celebrate it as much a possible! LOL.....you go girl!
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
12 Nov 09
Aren't u smart. I don't put up an outside decorations. Don't put up many inside eirher. Don't get the spirit like i use to. I have one friend that calls me scrooge.
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@jillhill (37354)
• United States
12 Nov 09
You don't seem like a scrooge! Do you have the little grandson help? I have a couple of trees....one is a small three footer I let my granddaughter decorate all by herself.....she calls it Ali's tree.
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
12 Nov 09
Thanks jill, but i guess i am. I haven't put up a tree in years. I have really never had a good place to put one & have to move furniture out etc. & i really don't feel like doing all that & besides all my christmas things are in the atic & i can't get up there to get them.I know excuses, excuses, lol.
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• United States
23 Nov 09
i havent but we dont do them.. i would love to but heck i cant even get my stuff done to my yard i need to such as weeding lol
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@jillhill (37354)
• United States
23 Nov 09
I wish I could put up more lights but with it just being me.....I don't do ladders unless they are short and in the house! LOL
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
12 Nov 09
I expect that if I had your weather then I would have taken the opportunity to put them up also. I don't put up any decorations until the second week in December. Just a few lights outside as the lady next door to me is so over the top with sleighs and Santa's and rein deers flying around allover the place. So her display is enough for the houses around her house. It really is very spectacular and all th kids in the neighbourhood just love it. Blessings and enjoy them!
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@jillhill (37354)
• United States
17 Nov 09
I make it simple....just a lighted wreath..some garland on the stair rail and a snowman that lights up.
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
17 Nov 09
That sounds so beautiful and tastful too.
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@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
12 Nov 09
Jillill my dear it is November. Do you all have free electricity out there and don't you all get fined for contaminating the environment? A few people attempted this foreign trend over here but it didn't last long when they got their electric bills.
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@jillhill (37354)
• United States
17 Nov 09
No..no free electricity....but I don't burn them all the time either and there's not alot...not like some who light up their whole house!
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@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
11 Nov 09
no, we live in a condo unit and the rules are that you cannot put up christmas decorations outside (ie lights) until after december first. to be honest, i have been too busy to even think about decorations yet, but have most of my shopping done.
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@jillhill (37354)
• United States
12 Nov 09
good for you! I do alot after Christmas....so get some really good deals!
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
2 Dec 09
hi jillhill wow that is warm. for minnesota sound like it is very pretty. We just got our fake big christmas tree up here'at Gold Crest and now its full of lights looks really very pretty too even though its fake. we always had a real christmas tree when we had our own apartment.Its been around 70 out cool for us, and in the mornings its beendown to fifty sometimes 45 which is cold anywhere i think. I am in ca of course.
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
2 Dec 09
It's finally turning to be somewhat winter today....tomorrow we are supposed to finally get snow! Thank goodness!
@Jenaisle (14078)
• Philippines
12 Nov 09
Inside the house yes, but not yet outside, now that you've said it. I will. Thanks for reminding me. Have a blessed day.
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@jillhill (37354)
• United States
12 Nov 09
You are welcome!
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@jugsjugs (12967)
11 Nov 09
I tend to only decorate the inside of my house as there are people where i live that would take them as soon as you put them up.
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@jillhill (37354)
• United States
12 Nov 09
That's too bad!
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