Already?

[msconduct]

All you people are terrifying me with your stories of putting up Christmas decorations. I was thinking "But Christmas isn't even a thing yet!" and then I looked at the date. Huh. Okay. Normally I'm a first day of December girl but I'm way too busy this year to be dragging out the tree during the week, so this weekend it is.

Fortunately decorating isn't exactly a huge deal chez Msconduct. I do fancy decorating mid-year at Matariki, which is a midwinter festival the way Christmas is in the northern hemisphere. The lights look a lot better in the lower light at that time of year. In December I celebrate the summer solstice, so it's just flowers and a pre-lit white birch that I hang little toy woodland animals on. Down from the loft, unfold, hang, insert batteries, done. Ten minutes tops. Joy to the world.

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[spiffikins]

Growing up, we always had to wait till after December 1st - my mom's birthday, before we were allowed to put up Christmas stuff.

Now that I'm in the US though, it just seems like it makes sense to do it, the long weekend after Thanksgiving - if I get around to it, LOL

And honestly, anything that involves twinkly lights for LONGER - can't be bad, right?

[msconduct]

Yes, it makes a lot of sense that Americans just move onto the next holiday when the previous one is over. The balance I have to strike with my birch tree is that if I start it too early, the 4 C batteries it uses will give up the ghost before Christmas week rolls around. Then if I put in new ones, I don't want to just toss them out partly used but if I don't the tree will have to stay up longer than I want it. I wish I could just plug it in! Unfortunately the wire is built in so there's not much I can do about it and I like the tree otherwise.

[spiffikins]

Oh yeah C batteries are ridiculous! Do they make rechargeable ones?

[msconduct]

Turns out they do! I'll look into that as I use C batteries in my cat door (it reads their RFDs) as well. Thanks.

[spiffikins]

Oh yay!