When is it OK to Decorate for Christmas? – IOTW Report

When is it OK to Decorate for Christmas?

 

 

23 Comments on When is it OK to Decorate for Christmas?

  1. Never. YHWH provides His 7 holy days and the Sabbath to honor and worship Him, which we ignore. Yet the days which come out of the bowels of satan/Rome are propped up and celebrated.

    Cain’s offering was not acceptable, which YHWH obviously had commanded or there would be no offerings made. The first burnt offerings SEEM to have been made by YHWH Himself for Adam and Eve, after they ate from the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, when He clothed them from skins.

    Israel created golden calf image (mediator, replacement for Moses) of YHWH, in exact opposition to how He commanded to be worshiped. How did that work out for them?

    Saul kept the prime Ox, sheep, etc… to make offerings to YHWH, in opposition to what YHWH commanded him.

    These are clear examples that worshiping YHWH how WE feel is honoring to Him is not acceptable. We must do as He defines honorable worship.

    Shabbat shalom!

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  2. The Tradition in the Lazlo House is that we get them out on the Friday after Thanksgiving and spend the weekend putting out.
    Then the weekend after Christmas down they come, to be put into those enormous Red and Green totes and hauled out to the storage bldg.

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  3. Friday after Thanksgiving and any warm day I don’t have obligations until Christmas. I put a lot of stuff out. 🙂 Had to mow one last time in 40 degree weather this morning because of the wires. My wife would have me do it at the beginning of November, I have relatives that do. I put a wreath on my truck, too.

    Some things are sacred. 😀

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  4. It’s still a free country, so far, put them up any ole time you want!

    Before we judge ‘put up too early or taken down too late’, we need to think, families being separated by military deployment; families having members who may not enjoy this Christmas on the 25th or are facing the last Christmas together because of illness. So many factors involved in a person’s reason for doing things.

    I remember once driving with my mother and a driver passed us, honking his horn and blinking his lights.

    There was a lot of traffic, so I mutter something like, ‘Who the hell does he think he is?’ She said maybe he’s a doctor on the way to an emergency. Or a person driving someone with an emergency. Made me stop my judgemental conclusion thinking.

    Same applies to people parking in handicap parking and hopping out with no indication of a handicap. Not all medical needs are visible.

    My mom, made you think of the possible ‘other side’. Miss her.

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  5. My wife would wait until Thanksgiving to start. I’d do the man stuff….get the boxes down, lights, etc and she would do the decorating….i’d clean up the mess.

    I stopped hanging lights on the eaves and put them on the low growing evergreens near the ground. Much, much easier and if you get some snow it glows from the lights underneath. Very beautiful.

    When we lived in Utah…a tradition we had was to get a permit and go cut our own tree. A thermos, lunch, the dog and a day ‘hunting’ a tree. Great times. When we moved to the Plains we went artificial tree.

    Now…. I do nothing. It was ‘our’ thing, I have no reason to now.

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  6. She who must be obeyed (a.k.a. Mrs. BAMO) keeps at least one tree up year ’round so… no start date.

    When we were first married my daughter (from prior relationship) stood in the area between the kitchen and dining room and said “Daddy, (Mrs. BAMO) really likes Christmas doesn’t she?”. I replied “Yes she does. Why do you ask?”. “Because from right in this spot I can see 1,2,3… (turning) …34 Christmas trees!”.

    ‘Nuff said.

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  7. The first week of December, Christmas decorations are up. “For everything there is a season”… – Ecclesiasties 3:1-8 is my guideline for decorating for holidays.

    Yet, there is no law when to decorate. Truly depends on your preferences. For me, it just makes sense to decorate for Christmas after Thanksgiving.

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  8. They go up sometime after Thanksgiving before Christmas Eve and Stay up the the Entire 12 days of Christmas and come done on or after Epiphany. Depending if Relatives are coming later in the year.
    Note: the first day of Christmas is Christmas day, the 12th day is Epiphany.

  9. I will be putting mine up this week when it is not raining.
    And then taking them down 2 weeks after new years, we like the color in the winter that never ends.
    Christmas lights in the snow.Wonderful.

  10. Interior house – boxes come out of the attic after Thanksgiving, Polar Express trains come out of the basement and get set up in the Sun Room for the Bedford Falls layout.

    Manger – My Dad made one around 1950 and I still have it, out in the dining room right now. Some of the original figurines have made it!

    Tree- Goes up around mid December and down just after Epiphany. I have bulbs from my parents trees. I don’t put them on the tree anymore out of fear of falling…

    Outside lights – we keep the ship kinda of simple and just decorate the porch/bow.

    Enjoy your decorating!

  11. According to the liturgical calendar, today is the first day of Advent. December 25 is the first day of Christmas.
    The atheists next door put up a lighted tree a week ago.
    So it depends on if you’re speaking of…
    Christmas (Dec. 25) or Secular Humanist Winter Celebration (any day you want).

  12. I live in a ditch in the woods, nobody would see decorations if we put them up.

    Last year we did the cutting a live tree thing. I was so disappointed when the lady running the show said to me, that’s not allowed as she pointed at my Stihl MS261C.

    So this year I got a deal on a pre lit and fake tree. My wife and daughter put it up a few weeks ago, but they decorated it after Thanksgiving.

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