My best friend spends days getting all the decorations just right - but has no control over what happens at night!
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Holiday Decorating
- Thread starter EddMarkStarr
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Only time I do decorating is for Christmas
I enjoy Holiday decorating, but the building I live in has strict rules on what is acceptable.
72-Jay
Daydreamer
Oh do I Decorate..
yep that's decorate with a capital 'd' not simply 'decorate'...
.lol.
and lit up.
and blinking too.
yep that's decorate with a capital 'd' not simply 'decorate'...
.lol.
and lit up.
and blinking too.
For the second year in a row, only apartments with a balcony can put up Christmas lights.
smokeshadow
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Although I didn't decorate this year, I typically string blue lights along the driveway, front planting beds and front entry walk. And, gold/amber lights on the corners and eves of the house. Would love to run lights on the porch gable; but, nearing 70 years of age, I have no business climbing to the top of my 12 foot step ladder to get lights that high 
What an awesome effect, the cool blue on the ground contrasts with the amber above - I've never used color to a similar effect in all my decorating!
smokeshadow
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Thanks, Edd.
BTW - all of those strings of lights are made up of the classic C7 bulbs, not the mini lights so common today. And, a couple of the strings were inherited from my late grandparents, which make them over 70 years old
The plastic on the wiring on those strings is getting rather brittle in it's old age, so I have to be VERY careful in handling them.
BTW - all of those strings of lights are made up of the classic C7 bulbs, not the mini lights so common today. And, a couple of the strings were inherited from my late grandparents, which make them over 70 years old
The plastic on the wiring on those strings is getting rather brittle in it's old age, so I have to be VERY careful in handling them.
Yooper
Back to Creepy Old Fart
I went a little nuts outside this year, a bit out of character for me, but I couldn't resist the stupid dinosaur, he was only $40.
Thanks, Edd.
BTW - all of those strings of lights are made up of the classic C7 bulbs, not the mini lights so common today. And, a couple of the strings were inherited from my late grandparents, which make them over 70 years old
Wouldn't ya know it - I gave up all my old school decorations to Goodwill when I moved into my current apartment in 2010. I had to conform to my rental agreement and display the "approved" mini-tree with tiny LED lights. Even gave away all the old ornaments, bigger than the mini-tree, and replaced them with tiny micro-ornaments.
Thank you for the reminders of when Holiday Decorations really were special. Christmas "Soviet Style" just isn't the same, lol.
72-Jay
Daydreamer
I've always liked the old C9 lights (C7's too)...smokeshadow said:
Don't use them anymore because too much power for what I do.
I've gone to pretty much all LED mini type now.
Have it setup with sets of a few different colors & I change between them.
Nope that's not enough lights to be considered going nuts! .lol.Yooper said:
I like the dino too.
My family had multiple sets of Bubble Lights from 1959, but most of the old decorations were given away years ago.
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Although I didn't decorate this year, I typically string blue lights along the driveway, front planting beds and front entry walk. And, gold/amber lights on the corners and eves of the house. Would love to run lights on the porch gable; but, nearing 70 years of age, I have no business climbing to the top of my 12 foot step ladder to get lights that high
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Lovely!
Cute dino!
When I was very young, our cats apparently delighted in knocking ornaments off the tree. Apparently every night there would that familiar "thunk:" followed by a lot of crashes and bangs as the cats knocked something off the tree and chased it all over the house.
Because of this, glass balls were forbidden--although the rule got relaxed a bit when I was in late elmentary school, once we had only one cat, who was too lazy to go after the tree.
I don't bother decorating any more, and I only ever did inside decorations.
The last major tree projects--the last years we were in my last childhood home--I was in charge of the tree. It was brightly lit (C7 lights), with both bubbling and flashing mini lights.
I'd have a hard time resisting the dinosaur, too!
72-Jay
Daydreamer
Cool. I always loved bubble lights.EddMarkStarr said:
Have some more modern ones in a box somewhere. but I haven't used them in years.
I do both inside & outside (and more than one tree inside)me203 said:
I've already cut back from what I used to do (due to both old age and time limits). There's going to come a time when climbing around on ladders & roofs will just get to be too hard to do so much of...
I can imagine it gets hard as one gets older.
In my case, I just don't have the enthusiasm to bother. It's just me, now. Holiday season is a pretty isolated feeling time of year. A few years ago, there was a spell when I decorated small trees each year. But my heart wasn't really in it...
As for bubbling lights...
We got a small stand when I was in elementary school. IIRC my mother wanted that strand when she saw it--she remembered that kind of light from when she was a girl.
I really like bubbling lights. The sad thing with that one stand was when the bulbs started burning out, and we couldn't find replacements. Until the year bubbling lights were suddenly carried in the store where we got things like Christmas lights. We not only got new bulbs, but added more bubbling lights.
My mother and I talked once about how ti could be fun having nothing but bubbling lights on a tree.
One of the few things I (sometimes) do to decorate these days is use a single bubbling light in one of those lamps that take a single C7 bulb base light.
We got a small stand when I was in elementary school. IIRC my mother wanted that strand when she saw it--she remembered that kind of light from when she was a girl.
I really like bubbling lights. The sad thing with that one stand was when the bulbs started burning out, and we couldn't find replacements. Until the year bubbling lights were suddenly carried in the store where we got things like Christmas lights. We not only got new bulbs, but added more bubbling lights.
My mother and I talked once about how ti could be fun having nothing but bubbling lights on a tree.
One of the few things I (sometimes) do to decorate these days is use a single bubbling light in one of those lamps that take a single C7 bulb base light.