I'd take christmas over halloween anyday!! :carols:
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I'd take christmas over halloween anyday!! :carols:
I don't bother with Halloween. No how! just another day to us!
Halloween is finally over! now it is the true time to celebrate this wonderful season! Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make the season better? What does everyone do at this time of the year to start getting ready for the season? Please share comments!
Halloween just gets in the way of Thanksgiving, which for many people is the beginning of the Holiday season. For me, November 1st is the beginning. :carols: And, I hate it when people call Halloween a "holiday". Puh-leeeeeze...
What I like to do now is begin playing Christmas music on a regular basis. Might watch a Christmas show. By Thanksgiving week the Christmas decorations will be coming out hot and heavy.
I love Halloween as much as I love Christmas. Thanksgiving is ok too, but Halloween and Christmas are my two favorite holidays.
I love this whole time of year. I can't believe October is over already though. Yikes!
Well, I love to listen to Christmas music right after Halloween also. I was also watching TV today and I noticed that they are starting to play more holiday commercials.. it is the best! I love it! Oh and if anyone happens to hear about a C:presents2:presents2:hristmas show on tv and when it will be please post it so I can watch! And I will do the same.
do you have cable, dishnetwork or direct? I have dish network but I will let you know. I have been checking daily to see what is coming on but nothing so far. :presents2:
Yeah, Xmas always gets my vote over Halloween anyday. We don't celebrate Thanksgiving here in Scotland obviously, but not really bothered about Halloween.
Hogmanay (New Year's Eve) is a bigger event in Scotland than anywhere else arguably!
My big holiday is CHristmas but I like to do Easter almost as much. I am not into halloween and all the horror shows that go with it. :my lord:
I have cable.. just let me know that show and the channel and then i can check to see if I get it! thank you!!!
Hello and welcome! :waving:Quote:
Originally Posted by ellepeace
I'm with you! Halloween and Christmas are my two holidays! :D :santa:Quote:
Originally Posted by ladyice
And Halloween is definitely a holiday! ;)
Well, I live in Florida now, so unfortunately, that "Christmas feel" doesn't even exist here. I grew up in South Dakota though, where it snows for the winter, and you could feel it all around you.
Even though people decorate their houses with lights here, it just isn't the same.
Palm trees, green grass and Christmas lights just don't bring out the holiday spirit for me. Especially when it is 80 degrees outside haha
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Originally Posted by glone
aww You should get the snowman that shoots snow in the air and put it in your yard :santa:
lol unfortunately, I live in a 2 bedroom sardine box, so I don't even have a yard. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by ladyice
I want to move back up north though, so maybe sometime in the near future I won't have to worry about snowmaking snowmen hehe.
Yes the christmassy feelin is def here in london! the ads are on tv and the shops are all decorated! i love it!!! my boyfriend just cant believe it when he sees me on here listening to xmas tunes in the background, he laughs at me!! but i know I'm not alone!
and it must be hard living in a hot place at this time of year. It really makes the difference when its cold and dark out! everyone i know hates it as its dark by 4.30pm! but it just gets me in the xmas mood even more!!:rudolph:
my brother was in Oz 2 xmas's ago and he said it was so weird, they had a pool bbq party and were all gettin drunk in the hot sun!!! it was sad to not have him with us just me and mum :crying:
but hes here this yr and my dad too so it will be lovely!! :blowing:
CANT WAIT!!
pls reply someone!!!:waving:
aww I am glad he's back this year!
I've always wanted to go see London at Christmas time, I bet it's gorgeous.
Someday! :christmastree:
Well if you move back up north, you'll def get the snow again :DQuote:
Originally Posted by glone
I sometimes miss it down here too... but then I remember the shoveling and scraping of ice.
Every day until April. :)
Would be nice to have snow once in awhile though :snowman:
I miss the snow myself but not enough to move back up north. I feel at home in NC now. I hardly ever go back up home anymore. I have no one to keep my dogs and hubby would not be able to handle Buddy (he's a mommas boy!)
yea its amazin to have my brother back! my other one lives in portland,or so wont be seein him this year,thats the 3rd xmas without him now and it just aint the same!!:sad elf:
went and saw him last month thou and stayed for 3wks had an amzin time!did a road trip to san fran and saw the redwoods,amazing!!!americas such an amazing beautiful country I get bored of england!! I wana move to the USA!!:jumping:
just one question though for anyone who lives in New york, does it always snow there at xmas time??? cos on all the films they seem to show which are set there it does! it snowed on xmas day here about 6yrs ago but didnt settle was nice though!! it did snow in april this yr which is very strange for england!!was really heavy too!!
i hope it snows this xmas it makes it so much more special!!!:snowman:
xx
Here in France 6 or 7 years ago, they tried to have people celebrating Halloween, but it didn't work much because it's not a french tradition. It was just commercial. Now, only young people celebrate Halloween, most of the time in primary schools, to get candy or to illustrate the english course.
Anyway let me tell you about a tradition in my area, which I knew when I was a child. In my grandmother's village, close to Germany, there was a night called "witches'night" It took place in the late days of may. During that night, witches and spirits where supposed to visit earth. People curved beet root, put a candle inside and put the roots outside their windows. Village teenagers where playing many tricks during that night. It looked like Halloween in spring, didn't it ?
HI Happy Holidays! I am someone new but of the same heart as you all. I usually start way early. I love Christmas! This year the Christmas spirit hit me on October 2. LOL :tree: I started listening to Christmas music. The reason for that is that I am deaf and have a cochlear implant that makes me hear. Christmas music is what I hear best because of my brains memory of it. I also was sitting at the computer writing and article for our cochlear implant support group's newsletter. The article went into that direction and there you have it. I have been in the mode since then. I am decorating right now in between clients (I give in home nursing care for the elderly and those in need). I leave the house to go to work shortly. Gee I am not getting anything done :santahat: because I found this web site. Look for more of my Christmas spirit in the up coming days.
welcome to the forums it is always CHristmas here. I would have put my tree up in september if hubby would have let me but he thinks I am crazy enough without my tree up that early. I love to shop for CHristmas. I am already starting a book of ideas for gifts in 2009. I am one who likes to plan things out. presents
Hello and welcome to the forums! :waving:Quote:
Originally Posted by ajfree
I'm glad you found us and hope you continue to have fun here with us! :gelf: Glad the Christmas spirit hit you so hard and early so you can enjoy it all this year. Look forward to hearing more from you soon...
Merry Christmas,
Bob, Forum Moderator :snowman:
It depends on the year when I start feeling the Christmas spirit. I'm only now starting to feel the holiday spirit. I'm now listening to Christmas music on a fairly regular basis. My kids aren't shy about telling me, "it's too early"!
We're getting light snow and cold temps lately in Michigan, so that make it seem close to Christmas.
Anyone breaking about the Christmas DVDs?
Hello and welcome to the forums! :waving:Quote:
Originally Posted by flick's tongue
I love your avatar...What a classic movie A Christmas Story is! :santahat: Interesting username, any certain significance?
DW put on a couple of Christmas tapes for our 1-year-old to watch yesterday as we put out a few decorations. Tonight we actually watched Christmas Vacation, which is always a good time! I love that movie! :gelf:
Again, welcome! :santa1:
Bob, Forum Moderator
Thanks for the warm welcome. Flick is the kid in A Christmas Story that sticks his tongue on the frozen pole. :)
I feel it when people turn on their outdoor Christmas lights. :rudolph:
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[QUOTE=charminggiftstore;6282]Somewhere in between Black Friday and the first week in December.
by the end of november.
by the way, do you prefer christmas eve or december the 25th ?
I'm always a bit disappointed on december the 25th...for it's over...:sad elf:
I agree, Noel, regarding the deflation on the 25th. Now, as to when I get in the Christmas spirit, it vaires. This year, I had it a couple weeks before Thanksgiving. That's how I found this site, because I was googling Christmassy themes.
guys I am in a hurry to get this holiday season over with so I can start on next christmas! I am crazy huh! I have bought and wrapped all my gifts. Bought the last of the CHristmas food and now finsihed baking the cookies. I am almost out of things to do to keep me busy until CHristmas Eve. I am trying to do something everyday but I am running into trouble figuring that out! Any ideas of what I can do? I have a few days before I can get a total on the ecards I need to send but then I can send 10 a day until they are down. I usually send two ecards to everybody on the list one now and another on CHristmas Eve. :santahat:
Every year, after xmas, when I remove the xmas tree, my husband says it's a pity and he adds we should keep it in the living room all year long ! :dizzy:Quote:
Originally Posted by onemagicalchristmas
My hubby will take ours down the day after CHristmas usually before I wake up. He gets tired of seeing it! I know he is tired of hearing the CHristmas music. :santahat:
Well im back and ready for another great christmas season even if it is september, christmas will be here before we know it! It has been a while since ive logged on and didnt realize how many people have posted on this thread! It was very cool to read all of it. Now where is mr pumpkin jack at! :dizzy:
i no its weird but there is a certain advert that comes on the telly every year that gets me having that christmas feeling, it the coca cola advert, that has a huge picture of santa on the back of the truck, he winks to the camera with a bottle of coca cola in his hand. or maybe i am just weird :dizzy:. it usually comes on near christmas and allways makes me think christmas in on its way
here is the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDoDUC9M0Sg
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Originally Posted by kimmy
I have to agree there, it always makes me think that christmas is on
its way:presents3:
dont think it would be the same if that ad wasn't shown:santa-smiley:
welcome back Sean he is usuaaly here on the weekends busy man he is.!
i agree it wouldn't be the same, i glad i am not the only one that feels that way about the advery my bf says i am nuts:dizzy:, because i get the christmas feeling because of a advert lolQuote:
Originally Posted by tinkerbell2