Earlier Holiday Seasons & Organic Produce Giveaway

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Last weekend when I hit the thrift shop jackpot and picked up some new-to-me dishes and photography props, I realized that the Christmas and holiday decorating is in full swing.

By November 1st it seems that all things Christmas from red and green cookie sprinkles to holiday music to holiday stocking stuffer ideas are everywhere; nearly two months before the actual holiday.

Pinecones and red and silver christmas tree ornaments

It seems that retailers go straight from 4th of July to Christmas.  There is Christmas stuff in the stores even before they put out the Thanksgiving items.  And Halloween items tend to start pretty early, too.  Usually right after Easter.  Kidding.  Kind of.

We’re not putting up a tree, so no ornaments will be hung here.  I purchased these ornaments at the thrift shop for photography purposes rather than actual tree-hanging purposes.

Red and silver ornaments

I don’t have a mantle to hang stockings from.

White stockings hanging from mantle with small creatures coming out of them

Nor will I have any elaborate table centerpieces with big bowls of pinecones on display.

These pine cones are in a bag in a closet and I’ll break them out as needed for photos.

Pinecones

I used them in the photos of the Rosemary Chipotle Roasted Almonds I just made.

Rosemary Chipotle Roasted Almonds

We’re going away and we’ll be gone in December anyway.  The last thing I want to do when we return home is put away holiday decorations or take down an artificial tree.  I’ll have my hands full with dirty laundry, mail sorting, grocery shopping, and just getting back into the swing of things.

So instead of red and green, I have orange for you.

If you’d like to enter to win a coupon for free organic produce such as baby carrots or carrot chips from Grimmway Farms, comment below.

 

Questions & To Enter the Giveaway:

1. Do you decorate for the holidays?  Christmas, Easter, Halloween, etc.?  <– One entry if you answer this question

Holiday decorating is great if you love it and have time for it and the taking down and putting it away doesn’t bother you.

And finding space to store it all.  I am short on that, too.  Have you seen my kitchen?

So I really don’t decorate.  I get my decorating jollies from the elaborate home decor Pinterest boards I see or living vicariously through a Martha Stewart catalog but I don’t do much of it.  Buying a pumpkin is my idea of “decorating” for Halloween.

I know some people live for holiday decorating.  They buy things all year in the name of the holiday, they have elaborate collections of things, i.e. snow globes, ornaments, miniature Santas, pumpkins, Easter Bunnies, fancy glass eggs, whatever it is, they collect it.

Then there are the people who put their holiday outdoor light displays up in September and leave them up til about June.  I have memories of my dad hanging outdoor lights on the house for Christmas.  Nothing says weekend project I never want to tackle like climbing on the roof with four feet of snow on the ground in zero degree temperatures with 30 below wind chills to get those lights hung.  Glad it was him and not me.

I love looking at decorations, lights, and getting into the fa-la-la-la of it all but I just won’t be personally doing any of it.  I’d rather use my free time to bake and decorate cookies rather than decorate my house.

Scott is also Jewish and although he wouldn’t care if we put up a tree and actually wants Skylar to learn about both Christian and Jewish traditions, I figure it’s easier to put up a Menorah than it is to put up a tree.   I plead the laziness card.

2. How early do you think is too early for Christmas stuff to make an appearance in stores?  <– Second entry if you answer this question in a separate comment

I think anything before Halloween is too early.

It used to be that anything before Thanksgiving was too early but now, by Thanksgiving, some people have all their holiday shopping done!

3. Third entry if you Twitter Follow & Tweet:

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Leave separate comments for each entry you want to claim (maximum of 3 entries)

Winner announced next post.  Open to Continental U.S. Residents only.

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Comments

  1. Um, yah…everyone in our neighborhood is decorating already! Its giving me anxiety haha. I think the day after thanksgiving is a perfect day to START. I love carrot chips and would be thrilled to win :)

  2. I enjoy Christmas stuff, but don’t think it should come out until the week of Thanksgiving in stores. Otherwise, Thanksgiving usually ends up getting pretty much skipped over.

  3. I do decorate for Christmas, but not a lot, we don’t have a lot of room. Usually a really small tree and a couple of stockings hung up. I don’t decorate for any holidays except for Christmas either.

  4. I enjoy decorating for the holidays, especially for Christmas…..although I’ve been away from home for a few years now and so all the decorations and the tree are usually up by the time I come visit. I look forward to decorating my own place when I finally have a place of my own : )

  5. The one thing I love to put up during december is christmas lights. They are so cozy and festive!

  6. I hate when stores skip over Thanksgiving! The day after Thanksgiving? Great, get out all the Christmas stuff you want. But Thanksgiving’s an important an meaningful holiday too, even if it’s not as profitable!

  7. SInce I live in an apartment at school but celebrate holidays at Mom’s house, I don’t personally do much decorating. Mom usually has the tree put up and the decorating done when I arrive home!

  8. The santa hats and loud christmas carols at Starbucks this week are way too much. I can’t imagine having to work there and hear those carols every. single. day. for 8 weeks! I couldn’t handle it!

  9. Christmas stuff (and music) should WAIT until Black Friday, the official kick-off of the Holiday Season (in my book, of course).

  10. Last year was my first year in a new apt and I bought a little artificial, pre-lit tree for about $10. I got stockings (which I hung on our “bar) and a door mat, plus a little tree centerpiece and Ho-ho-ho hanging thing to go in the kitchen. That was my idea of extraordinary and it all cost me about $25! Otherwise, not much decorating here…too much time, money, and dusting that would need to be done!

  11. Who needs Christmas decorations when you have tickets to Aruba!?!?

    I dont’ decorate for the holidays as we spend them mostly at other relative’s houses. Also, my cat has been known to knock over an xmas tree in 3 seconds flat, multiple times a day, all. season. long. :)