Janet,

Like others, Sorry you are having challenges. If you discover you need to replace any ornaments, please let me know. More than happy to repay the many times you have helped me out! Take care.

Carol

VinceL- Wow! Great job on getting so much done so early! It will be so nice to be able to sit back and relax and enjoy all your decorating when the official Christmas season starts. That is my goal. We shall see if this is the year. Congrats on the huge head start you have.

No ornaments needed. Mostly empty boxes and those that had stuff in I cleaned in lysol.

Good to hear!

As of today (November 6th) we have 7 of our 9 trees completely decorated. We need to complete our main 9 foot tree and our second tree (7 feet) of all cat ornaments.

We won't be doing much outside decorating this year since we will be having the roof replaced on our house. So, all of our shrubs and ground near the house will be covered in protective tarps. They expect to install the roof around the end of November. We won't have much time to put up outside decorations.

This year our focus is on indoor decorations. Lots of plush figures, many of the Hallmark tabletop/mantel decorations, and lots of fluffy snow. We both do ceramics. Mostly we do items for outside around our pool, but I also do a lot of Christmas related items. So, we have a bunch of those on display. I made a large 3-tier ceramic Christmas tree a couple of years ago, and we also have the ceramic tree that my late mother made.

Our house is truly looking a lot like Christmas.

Still working on getting the 950-1000 ornaments on the main tree.

My two trees are out of their boxes and in their stands. I'm hoping to get lights and many if not all decorations on them before I leave for Thanksgiving. We'll see how far I get.

Still working on this tree, but have started the Disney tree.

All 9 of our trees are up and fully decorated.

We even have the Lionel train running around the main tree and a cat tree (not a Christmas tree but a tree for cats to jump and sleep on) in the Living Room.

All other indoor decorating is done except I am still working on a ceramic Bumble (the abominable snowman in the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindoor TV special). The Bumble is holding a large star with little Christmas lights on it and his eyes will have 2 small round Christmas lights. With a light bulb installed inside him, the lights on the star will glow as will his eyes.

We put up translucent screens in the 2 large windows in the front of our house and use 2 video projectors to display Christmas videos from a company called Atmosfx.

Once our new roof is installed we can do some outdoor decorating.

I'm playing Christmas music on our Google Nest Hub, but my wife says it is too early to start listening to Christmas music. I say Bah Humbug to that.

Glad I checked out my light last night. I need to get at least two strings of regular lights. I'd also love to find some twinkling lights since one of my strings gave up the ghost. But those seem to be impossible to find.

I don't know if you use or like LED lights, but these warm white twinklers look nice on our trees.

https://www.christmaslightsetc.com/p/70-...-Wire-64509.htm

I will check them out. Thanks.

All those "Early Christmas Decorating Deniers", get decorating !!!

I made it--all my decorating done by Thanksgiving!

Ted

Still decorating !!!

And we started in October.

Still haven't taken any decorations down.

We brought all of the storage totes and boxes into the house from the garage on Thursday. We will soon start taking down decorations and packing them away.

Our daughter is now in a house (rental) and needs a bigger tree than the little 4 foot one that she has. Last week we picked up a 7 foot tree at 75% off and will give her one of our 6.5 foot trees. We need the bigger tree for Star Trek ornaments (couldn't display them all this year).

Who still has full size trees for sale?

Our local Walmart had 1 pre-lit tree left and 7 un-lit trees . We only get un-lit trees. But, given what Walmart had left, I guess most people prefer pre-lit trees.

Probably the best time to buy them.