When do you flip the holiday switch? |
Loading ...Like many others, our family switches into Christmas mode at Thanksgiving. On Black Friday we shop and over the holiday weekend we usually decorate the tree. Last year we were a bit early with the tree ritual, but it’s usually around Thanksgiving time that the tree gets put together.
We used to go buy a real tree, but switched to a fake tree in 2005.
Holiday music and movies
This is also the time to start watching Christmas movies and listening to Christmas music. Among my list of favorite holiday movies:
- black and white version of Miracle on 34th Street. The color version is ok, but not nearly as good as the B&W version. Kind of like how Twilight Zone in color never quite worked. The dialogue is getting a bit dated now, but still works.
- Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer
Last year our son received the gift: Twisted Christmas CD
I see Dee Snider and the gang have the Twisted Christmas Live DVD
Twisted Sister’s A Twisted Christmas Live DVD captures the band’s holiday 2006 show at New Jersey’s Legendary Starland Ballroom, featuring performances of their greatest hits as well as Christmas songs from last year’s holiday breakout album A Twisted Christmas. Twisted sister’s …Live DVD release will ignite the passions of the press and fans again - expect more madness this holiday season!
Something about transitioning from “Stay Hungry” to “Let It Snow” that is so wrong.
Like most of the rest of you, I’ll be growing tired of holiday music and movies soon, but when the decorations go up and the tunes and movies start playing for a short time I’m transported back to those magical, mystical childhood days when anticipation of Christmas day was almost unbearable. What are your favorite holiday movies and music and when do you switch into Christmas mode?
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This is all very personal and depends on your family traditions, I think.
When I was a kid, we’d always put the tree up the 23rd or the 24th. We’d tromp through the snow and cut down a small fir from a neighbor’s lot (we were in the mountains, and yes, had permission). Then decorate it, put the presents under it, and just as the needles started to fall everywhere around New Year’s Day we’d take it down. These days I do it a week or two earlier, but it feels weird.
Incidetanlly, my brother’s wife’s family had the opposite tradition — tree goes up December 1. The two of them do the typical marital compromise and do it her way at the start of the month.
Comment by Will — November 24, 2007 @ 10:14 pm PST
That’s true, Will. The problem with the first of December, for us anyway, is it doesn’t fall over a weekend or holiday time.
Comment by TDavid — November 25, 2007 @ 11:07 pm PST
Just bought the cut tree today, they came in overnight at our local store and we need a huge one (our great room has a 25 foot ceiling). Right now it is sitting in a tub of water awaiting this evening when we will bring it in. We won’t actually decorate it until Sunday… I have about 1/3 of my outdoor xmas decorations up. Like my wife says.. Viva Las Vegas!
Comment by FranciscoIV — November 26, 2007 @ 7:55 am PST