F*cking Christmas stuff out already!?!?!?[Rant]

[mmb]

Call my wife, please. We have nine, yes 9, Rubbermaids full of Christmas decorations in the attic. I must admit, the house looks great. But you know who is taking those things down and putting them back up in the attic.

Yup. I'll be up on the ladder hanging lights the day after Thanksgiving.

 

[shecky]

Yup. I'll be up on the ladder hanging lights the day after Thanksgiving.

Fortunately, we don't have many lights and the ones we do have are white. I hate the colored ones. My house ain't 7-Eleven.

She has everything else, right down to dinner ware that replaces the usual stuff. Yup, we change plates and coffee mugs at Christmas.

 

[jmulligan]

Fortunately, we don't have many lights and the ones we do have are white. I hate the colored ones. My house ain't 7-Eleven.

She has everything else, right down to dinner ware that replaces the usual stuff. Yup, we change plates and coffee mugs at Christmas.

We've got a friend like that, except she's a freak for Halloween. At least Christmas you can build up to, Halloween goes zing and it's gone. I can't imagine investing $$$ in Frankenstein punch bowls, plates, cups, curtains, lawn paraphenalia, etc for one day. Christmas is at least a mecha-holiday of weeks.

Your house sounds like the kind I like to visit for Christmas parties (all beautifully decorated), and then breathe a sigh of relief that I don't have to clean any of it up!

 

[shecky]

We've got a friend like that, except she's a freak for Halloween. At least Christmas you can build up to, Halloween goes zing and it's gone. I can't imagine investing $$$ in Frankenstein punch bowls, plates, cups, curtains, lawn paraphenalia, etc for one day. Christmas is at least a mecha-holiday of weeks.

Your house sounds like the kind I like to visit for Christmas parties (all beautifully decorated), and then breathe a sigh of relief that I don't have to clean any of it up!

She does the cleaning, fortunately. I just do the manual labor and reach the high stuff, which means anything above 6 feet (she's short).

She has stuff like this for every season. Spring the ceramic bunnies come out. Summer it's all beach stuff. Fall (she did this last night) all sorts of cornucopias, Indian corn, corn stalk at the mailbox, mums everywhere. If I happen to go on a trip on Sept. 20 and come back on Sept. 23, the season in my house has changed drastically.

 

[jmulligan]

She has stuff like this for every season.

That actually sounds really awesome (minus the hauling of Rubbermaids). That's cool that she takes so much time and effort to make your house look nice and seasonally inviting.

 

[shecky]

That actually sounds really awesome (minus the hauling of Rubbermaids). That's cool that she takes so much time and effort to make your house look nice and seasonally inviting.

I will admit it's nice. (does that make me gay?)

 

[jmulligan]

I will admit it's nice. (does that make me gay?)

Yeah, but only a little, and in that super-cute way!

 

[shecky]

Yeah, but only a little, and in that super-cute way!

At 40 years old, I think I passed the super cute threshold long ago. But thanks.

 

[billtzk]

This is likely to be the most abysmal holiday season for retail businesses in many years with the economy soon to be in full scale meltdown. (Or isn't it already?) I imagine businesses want to scrape up what money they can before TSHTF. (Or did it already?)