Do you help with the holiday decorations?

[Don]

My wife is already planning what she is going to do for Halloween. I use to help her, but it has gotten to be a really big project and I don't enjoy it as much as she does. I was wondering how many people decorate as a couple and how many have just one person that do it all on their own?

 

[FrankSinatra]

I try not to but I eventually will have to. We have been going away (either out of state or out of town to her parents' house) and I have been arguing against all the decoration. I don't like decorating if we aren't going to be home to celebrate the holiday.

 

[Victor]

My wife and I tend to decorate together. She does most of the decision-making and I help her put it all up. We enjoy it, although she likes it more than I do.

 

[Justadad]

We don't celebrate Halloween at all now that the kids have grown up and left, but my wife likes to put Christmas decorations up. I only help when she can't reach, and I just put things where I'm told.

 

[polamalu43]

Sure I help! The whole family gets involved in decorating. It's fun and it is a lot quicker when everyone is helping out. To be honest I think I like more decorations and my wife likes less.

 

[stephen]

My official job is Christmas lights--indoor and out. My wife keeps threatening to buy Halloween lights but I've told her she'd have to put them up herself!

 

[Lorenzo]

I don't usually help with Halloween decorations. I leave it up to my fifteen-year old and the rest of the kids. They do a much better job with it anyway.

 

[RianMerino]

We really only decorate for Christmas and we do it together. It is a great time as a family to get together and celebrate the season. It is quite the to do in our house actually.

 

[Bearsfan]

My wife and I tend to decorate together. She does most of the decision-making and I help her put it all up.

I'm right there with you. I have a good time with it though. My wife lets me carve the pumpkins, for Halloween, but that's really the only decorating where I get creative control.

 

[joeldgreat]

Though many houses here in my country already put up their Christmas decoration, mine will be decorated after the Halloween. In fact, we've been using the same decoration for 5 years now and my wife is planning to replace some of them. Helping, nope, but the whole family will surely have some happy time doing the decoration ourselves.

 

[jason]

The wife's idea of decorating for the holidays is adding one, maybe two things to the Christmas tree. I do Halloweeen, fall, spring, Christmas and all other things. And well to be honest I love it. If I had the money I would go bigger. I love doing the outside, and the inside for Christmas. I guess it is something I got from my mom. She goes all out and I always helped her. I grew to love it. I love the lights, and all the stuff.

I am more old school though. I do not like blow ups, multi colored lights or some of the new stuff. For Halloween I've stuck to spiders and ghouls. For Christmas I do white and blue lights. I do icles. NO blow ups. I have been doing my best to get the old plastic decorations but they are hard to come by. I have instead started making wood ones, and enlisting the help of others to make wood ones. I did break down and get some new penguins a few years back that are a fabric style.

Halloween starts the first weekend in October. Christmas is Thanksgiving weekend. Planning Christmas may start the week before though.

 

[roncar]

My wife also likes to do it up big for Halloween. I'm not much for decorating from this holiday, but I think she does a great job. As for Christmas, I do put up the roof lights outside, but she and our daughters do the rest.

 

[R. Paradon]

When I was married we would both put up the Christmas decorations but I'd take them down because I had more patience in making sure the wires were easy to get to them the next year. She preferred just to jam everything into a box.

For Halloween I'd always take my kids to the store and let them pick out the decorations. With the exception of a few favorites we'd change the ghosts and witches every year.

 

[mollew3]

My wife loves decorating so I go to find the tree for the holidays every year. As far as hanging lights out I get a friend of the family to help her out with that. I got caught into the whole designing thing with her once and all I can say is never will I fall into that trap again. Women have a different mentality about decorating. They take forever to make up their minds.

 

[youngone]

I don't like too many decorations, I think it looks tacky and cheap. I prefer to go with less decorations but nice pieces, like my snowman lights for the fireplace. I don't bother with decorations for Halloween, just a pumpkin will do.