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Do you decorate for holidays? (lemmy.world)

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I don't own decorations of any kind for any holiday. I live alone and I don't really celebrate much of anything. So my questions are:

Do you decorate your home, office, automobile, etc. at all?
If so which holidays?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm really big on Halloween. I decorate the interior of my classroom and my house (sometimes a little outside of my house like cobwebs over the gate and fencing and a tombstone or three, but we had painters working this year, so that stuff stayed in the garage).

My partner decorates hardcore for Christmas/Yuletide, but it's all very secular and interior with just a wreath outside on our door, so it's nice to not have to put up lights lol.

I don't do any other holidays, tbh. My grandmother gave us so much stuff for Easter and 4th of July, but we don't celebrate either.

We decorate for seasons, generally, and have like spring/summer/fall/winter decor, but that's mainly just swapping out pillows on the couch and little flower arrangements or a few knick nacks. Some of the Easter stuff was useful for our spring decorations, and, thankfully, my aunt ended up snagging a bunch of the other Easter stuff because she has fond memories of those decorations when she was a child.

A lot of the other stuff that wasn't trash worthy (most of the chintzy 4th of July stuff) was scooped up by others in a garage sale, so it was nice to see some other people enjoy those things.

My grandma has always loved setting up garage sales and she was super sweet to everyone who showed interest or bought her old decorations. It was really nice for her to see these keepsakes go to a new home and know that they were valued.

She's mellowed a lot in the last ten or so years and I was a little surprised with how gung ho she was about throwing the cheaper stuff away lol she was acting like the amazing hostess she has always been and saying things like "This is my last garage sale, so only the nice things make it to the tables for sale!"

I know that's kind of a tangent, but I really have enjoyed helping her downsize and move into a smaller space near my parents, and thought this story would probably apply to a lot of others' experiences with family decorations and memories.

Edit: It was also pretty cute how my grandma was giving things away to people who really liked things. She's always done this, but this time seemed a little more special and personal for her. She had so much stuff that she made a decent amount on the furniture anyway, but that was definitely not the goal for any of us lol.