No. Never since moving out of my parents house. Putting up and then taking down decorations was never anything more than a chore to me.
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Fake. I can use the same tree year after year.
We got a really small tree, as it's only me and my girlfriend.
We kept it over quite some years and the attachment to it grew with every year.
Yeah, it died in one hot summer, because we were gone and fucked up.
But still, it was really really nice to have a Christmas tree on your balcony, which gets dressed up every Christmas.
I'm even getting a bit sad now, that ours died, but it was really nice having it and caring for it.
real tree. shitload of lights. we have a saying... 'its not xmas if something doesnt die'
Some lights on the windows, no tree. Don't really give a shit about Christmas.
Plastic tree but looks super real. I live near a Christmas tree farm that seems to do pretty well but I’ve never been in anyone’s house that actually has a real one.
My household celebrates two different winter-related holidays, Christmas included.
I have some connectors there on my ESPHome devices to string up intelligent LED strands. I even got some RGBW LED strands so that I can have more pleasant-looking lights.
I've got a fake tree and some other decorations, plus a blob of older LED and incandescent strands.
...and I just haven't felt any real holiday spirit the past few years so none of it's been put up.
No, mainly because I travel for Christmas as Christmas decorations are rather bulky to store.
Most years its no decorations but occasionally my wife wants them so she puts up some lights and a plastic tree. Seems to happen every 3 to 5 years. This year she bought a more high end tree and a bunch of lights so I think the rate of decorative years might be about to increase.
No, never. Not against it, but I live alone and my family was never big in holidays after I stopped being a kid. I would just be doing it for myself and I don't care enough.
Real tree, usually with 10 strings of lights around the rooms but that has been reducing as we age. There is a smell and ambiance of a real tree that can't be beat, it really sets the winter mood.
We had been doing lights, can't afford it this year.
Have a fake wreath to put on the door though!
Apartment life here, we have a decal tree (big reusable sticker basically) that we put up. It has decal ornaments and our kid enjoys putting them up on the tree sticker.
We also got a two foot tall plastic one a couple years ago, so we have two fake ones each year. Still it's cute to watch my kid design the ornament placement each year.
If it were up to me, I wouldn't. But my wife likes Christmas so I do. I'm an atheist, she's Wiccan, we were raised Catholic and vaguely catholic-ish respectively.
We do a real tree, if I'm gonna go through the trouble I'm gonna do it right. It also means I don't have to haul the damn thing up and down the ladder to my attic every year, I just strap it back onto my car and haul it over to my friends house for our next bonfire.
We do a string of lights around our porch and put out a garden flag and that's about all of our exterior decoration.
My wife also puts out a few interior decorations inside the house, stockings by the fireplace, etc.