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submitted 1 month ago by MisterNeon@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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:

  1. Do you decorate your home, office, automobile, etc. at all?
  2. If so which holidays?
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[-] BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

No, to the point where I've had a few friends and family members offer to buy me decorations (or they'll text me of ones on sale), and I always turn them down.

Halloween, I'll put out a pumpkin if I'm feeling frisky, but that's about it. Christmas, I've considered getting a tree, and had a roommate that had a really small plastic one with two ornaments that'd we'd put out.

But they're too expensive, they're too much work to put up/take down (especially outside in the snow), they take up too much room both while in use and in storage, my dog would probably fuck with them or be afraid of them (Halloween), they drive electricity use and cost up, they can be stolen, they can increase fire risk, I normally live alone so it'd only be for my dog and I, the list goes on.

I tell friends/family, particularly for Christmas since many of them can't believe I just don't do decorations, that I draw a Christmas tree on a piece of paper and tape it to my wall every year. Costs $0.05 in ink, paper, and tape, and 5 minutes to put up and take down. Easily movable, lightweight, efficient.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

When my kids were younger, before we had money, we had a "tree" each year that I'd put up after they went to bed. Always something different. One year lights in the coat rack, one year construction paper on the wall, one year my ex cut the top off one of the bushes outside and we sort of carved it into the cone shape, once an inflatable beach ball sort of tree, all sorts of different things but it was never an actual Christmas tree.

[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Same. On top of the fact the commercialization cheapens the experience.

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