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[traveler]

I don't do much decorating anymore so just the front door, silk bouquet. I put it out when the kids go back to school and the State Fair begins. August some time.

[Oostende]

My fall decor includes a lot of sunflowers which will come out fairly soon. The pumpkins will start making an appearance in September. I don't put out Halloween decor.

I don't really have a schedule. I live high in the mountains, so summer is brief here, and that is fine by me. I love the cooler weather.

Some years I get impatient and bring things out earlier than others. It's my house and I do what I feel like.

[goodstuff]

My seasonal decorating has become more and more minimal. I don't do a lot of rotating decorations for the seasons. I may put my homely pottery pumpkin on the front porch for fall/Halloween or a few pretty gourds as a table centerpiece.......but that's about it. At Christmas-time I put lights on a small tree, a wreath on the front door, and place a couple of manger scenes and some loved family figurines, etc. around the house, but I don't get carried away or go with elaborate decorations. I haven't bought any new decor for Christmas (except a tree) in years. I cook our traditional lamb dinner for Easter and go to church with the family, but I don't do much (if any) Easter home decor. I don't want to buy, store, clean, or cycle loads of seasonal decor any more. At this time in our lives, simple is enough.

[Hooty]

Reese2, I love that picture too!

[Susan Louise]

On 7/10/2014 Smurfette said:

Fall decorating starts Labor Day weekend...I love it even more than decorating for Christmas.

OMG...Me Too!!!

[Susan Louise]

On 7/10/2014 Hooty said:

Here in the South, it can stay HOT through October, so I don't do my "official" decorating till Oct., that way I have it for Oct. and Nov.! I'll transition in a couple of weeks with "sunflowers" which to me is late summer into early fall decorating!

Anyone else a big "sunflower" fan like me?

In between I do my "college football" team décor ............ War Eagle!

Yes! Decorate with them for Fall, and grow them in one of our gardens. I also keep a plaque of sunflowers over our kitchen sink and our angel 'holder' (which holds a different sign for various holidays/seasons is currently holding a sunflower too).

If I have time later, I'll post a few pics

[stevieb]

On 7/10/2014 Hooty said:

Reese2, I love that picture too!

Great picture. I love harvest season and harvest themed decor!

[Susan Louise]

On 7/10/2014 reese2 said:

I begin to make the transition mid-September. I love the colors in this picture!

Thanks for sharing the pic...beautiful! Sigh...wish we had a yard big enough for a shack/room/storage like that...another reason to dream

[chrystaltree]

After Labor Day.....

[Mominohio]

My son's birthday is at the beginning of Sept. and after his b-day, I usually get the fall stuff out. I like my fall decor so much that I want to have it out for as long as possible.

I don't do Halloween, so what fall goes up, stays up till Thanksgiving weekend, when Christmas comes out. I am liking Christmas decorating less and less as I age, and I think it is because I have too much stuff. I try to reduce it, but I get so sentimental about a lot of it then can't clean it out. I feel mired in Christmas decor, and I want it to take no more than 6 hours to do all decor and two trees, but sometimes it takes me two days. I am making an even more concerted effort to reduce the amount of Christmas decor I have again this year.