Just Cant Get Into It

20 years ago

Is it just me this year? I cannot seem to get the inside of my house decorated. Usually I am done by now but this year I just dont seem to care if it gets done or not. I got the stuff as far as the laundry room but just dont care if it makes it in here, and I really dont care if we sell the stuff or give it away. It hasnt really been a bad year. Actually its been pretty good. After 9 years we finally got married, and things have been going fairly smooth. In our lives all the way around. But there have been a few things that have happened through the year just not recently. I am all about the crafts, doing all kinds of Christmas projects. Just dont want to get the decorations out. Am I the only one that feels this way? Maybe if some people would post some pics of Christmas decorations they have out or the things they are working on that would help. Thanks for any help or advice you could give.

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loganhogan
20 years ago
I'm so busy making gifts and sewing orders that I too could care less if I put the tree up, etc. I think I'm going to force myself Sat. and I hope it doesn't rain again this weekend cause I'm not dragging that stuff out in the rain.
Susan
minnie_tx
20 years ago
I'm kind of the same way this year. This and fall is my favorite time and I didn't get any of my regular fall stuff out. I just got a few new things. I sure hope I get in the mood before Christmas!!
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20 years ago
No tree here yet either. I have small children so we went and saw Santa this weekend. It got me in the Christmas mood, but since then I've been busy or sick. My house is a wreck and I dread the extra mess. I'll suffer through it anyway for the kid's sake.
maryanntx
20 years ago
I am very ready to get my tree up and decorated, but I sure wish someone would come do it for me! I just don't know when I'll have the time.
lizh
20 years ago
Pop on over to the Decorating forum and check out the pics in the threads on decorating for the holidays. They will inspire you. I find that going out to the specialty Christmas shoppes and garden centers really helps. Especially the ornament section and the live greens. Maybe just don't do as much this year and you won't feel so pressured.
barb_from_pa
20 years ago
I'm dragging this year, too. I can hardly stand the thought of decorating. I need a good fairy to come do it for me! I think I'm Christmased out from teaching preschool for so many years! LOL
zshopper
20 years ago
Every room in the house is a mess, all these Christmas boxes ready to be unopened and the decorations to be put in place seem like too much work Guess I am tired of working so hard. I just want to enjoy and relax. But that is not going to happen. This weekend I'll have to get busy and get it altogether. I think we sometimes feel this way because the same decorations come down from the attic and are put in the same place each year. Maybe we need a change.
minnie_tx
20 years ago
I'm getting started. DS came over and we found the outside lights and will put them up on the porch tomorrow. I did the swag on the porch and bows and the fibre-optic wreath.

I'm only putting up my snowmen this year inside.Maybe a few Santas. I love the S'More's Snowmen and they will be my main thing. I have the two trees up but no lights yet. The one in my little living room will have all my ornaments I beaded in 2003. The other tree will have just some ornaments I love from the last couple of years.
I have boxes stored in the garage that will probably not be opened for a long time.
I really would like to get rid of so much. a yard sale in April maybe.
I don't think I'll put up any of my little houses either. I'm contemplating no angles this year.
cathytx3
20 years ago
I, too, am not in the mood for decorating. We don't have children and we always have Christmas at my aunt's. So this year, I decided NOT to pull anything out and just concentrate on the shopping.
movinalong
20 years ago
I can't get it together this year either.
We moved during the summer and we are in a rental house that I just can't get a feel for. It' isn't just that but I intentionally keep putting of finishing the projects that I had started. I have no idea what is going on. I am totally disorganized this year and I don't have the enthusiasm that I ususally do.
jbkidd
20 years ago
No, it sure is not just you. I too cannot get into the mood of Christmas. I put up a few decorations yesterday, not because I wanted to but because I felt I had to.
kathi_mdgd
20 years ago
Count me in with the rest of you.I usually have mine up by the first of Dec,but not this year.First of all i wanted to repaint my white picket fence first.DH told me he'd do it.Well he finally got started today and did only the gates and the short side,and quit.Had that been me,i would have only quit when i finished.Tomorrow i'm going out there and paint alongside of him,or maybe without him.He lags a lot on these type things.So come hell or high water the fence will be done tomorrow!!!
Once that's done then i'll get started with the decorating,both inside and out.We're not putting up our roof lights this year,at least not along the roof.DH shouldn't climb ladders,and i can't anymore.Bad knees for me,and he had a small stroke a few years ago so i try to keep him off of them.

I do think i'll take those roof lights and put them along my picket fence this year though.

I made a snowman yesterday from 3 terra cotta pots,just have to finish up the small details.That will go on my porch.
Kathi
mariend
20 years ago
My ornaments are sitting in a box in the basement--just waiting for ME. Probably won't have a tree this year. Have new couch where the tree went last year, and since our house is much smaller here, may just decorate a little. With DH getting Chemo treatments not in the mood. Will enjoy others whereever I go.