Why I Don't Decorate (Much) for the Holidays

November 2013


Exactly!... what's the point? Holidays come. Holidays go. Yah, if I had little kids at home, I might do more, but not anymore.
It's a good day if i can get a tree put up and decorated before the 24th!
i'll tell you when it all started. there has been a lighting contest every year with the winners getting cash prizes. i decided that i was going to be a shoo-in for first place!
so, twenty years ago, i went all out. i bought a set of those big plastic light-up nativity figures. i got a 4x8 foot sheet of plywood and some straw bales. i spent many hours figuring out wiring. i set this all up underneath our weeping mulberry which is a very remarkable looking tree. i spent many, many MORE hours festooning that tree with six dozen small red velvet bows. it was awesomely beautiful!
however, they didn't let anyone know WHEN they were going to judge. so, of course, the one night that they picked to judge was a night that i didn't get home until later than usual and so, the display was not turned on.
i was so pissed. i decided right then and there that i would never lift one finger to do any more decorating.
i've got two fake wreaths that get hung on either side of our front door. i have a small gold plastic holly wreath that gets hung on the front door knocker. i have a string of sleigh bells that is hung on the inside of the front door. and, besides the tree, that's it!
bah. humbug.

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