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.