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Marthe48

(16,904 posts)
Fri Sep 23, 2022, 11:21 AM Sep 2022

Does anyone change decor for the seasons?

I know people who used to have summer dishes, winter dishes, spring or fall colors. Do people still change their decor? Or is it mainly for holidays like Halloween, Easter, Christmas?

Just wondering

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Does anyone change decor for the seasons? (Original Post) Marthe48 Sep 2022 OP
Me. All seasons, all reasons. niyad Sep 2022 #1
I never did Marthe48 Sep 2022 #2
No. I'm trying to cilla4progress Sep 2022 #3
I just check out the basement Marthe48 Sep 2022 #5
Sweet! cilla4progress Sep 2022 #7
Yes Tree-Hugger Sep 2022 #4
Nope. I have way too much crap already. Ocelot II Sep 2022 #6
I do too Marthe48 Sep 2022 #12
I do. We did it more when the kids were little, and skip some holidays these days. Liberty Belle Sep 2022 #8
My reasons include Earth Day, Susan B. Anthony's birthday, the wheel niyad Sep 2022 #9
My wife changes tablecoths with the seasons - and then some. empedocles Sep 2022 #10
My wife does. IrishAfricanAmerican Sep 2022 #11

Marthe48

(16,904 posts)
2. I never did
Fri Sep 23, 2022, 11:24 AM
Sep 2022

I put some touches out for the holidays. Last year I went crazy with pumpkins outside, but that might have been a fluke.

Marthe48

(16,904 posts)
5. I just check out the basement
Fri Sep 23, 2022, 11:26 AM
Sep 2022

I have so much stuff from when we were actively collecting, I think I'm on a permanent thrift diet

cilla4progress

(24,718 posts)
7. Sweet!
Fri Sep 23, 2022, 11:32 AM
Sep 2022

I have hardly any of the tschotskes left from when our daughter was growing up!

I should update my house but I'm like meh.
It would just create a lot of waste for no good reason!

Marthe48

(16,904 posts)
12. I do too
Fri Sep 23, 2022, 11:54 AM
Sep 2022

I hardly use what I have, but I like having a few things out for each holiday that remind me of times past I have bought anything new in ages.

Liberty Belle

(9,533 posts)
8. I do. We did it more when the kids were little, and skip some holidays these days.
Fri Sep 23, 2022, 11:32 AM
Sep 2022

I don't bother much anymore with Easter or 4th of July with the kids grown and gone, but still decorate for Christmas, or if we have a Halloween party. I also change out a few things seasonally.

I have an entry area with an old rock fountain that hasn't worked in years. So I decorate it with woodland wildlife figurines (our house looks like a mountain lodge) and add a few seasonal items for spring/fall/winter/Christmas.

I no longer decorate all over the house, just the little entry area and the dining table decor, except at Christmas when we add a Christmas tree and items on the hearth.

I take after Mom in having a fondness for pretty dishes. i used to have 3 sets- formal china (rarely used) that matched colors in our dining room. A set in more summer/fall colors, casual style, that went with our kitchen/dinette table, and then some pretty flowery spring ones for the rest of the year. Mom grew up in the Depression, never had anything fancy, so started collecting pretty dishes and glassware sets over the years.

After Mom passed at 91, I couldn't resist bringing in some red holiday dishes, too, a Depression glass tea set, and some beautiful Bavarian china that was my grandmother's. I even bought a corner china cabinet to hold them. Some stuff is stored up high on a shelf in the laundry room, taken down seasonally. I know it's silly to have so many, but Mom left other sets that got passed on to the grandkids, and I coudn't bear to have these special items go outside the family.

Now with a 5th vaccination, I'm ready to start entertaining and doing dinner parties again!

niyad

(113,074 posts)
9. My reasons include Earth Day, Susan B. Anthony's birthday, the wheel
Fri Sep 23, 2022, 11:36 AM
Sep 2022

of the year, and whatever strikes my fancy.

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
10. My wife changes tablecoths with the seasons - and then some.
Fri Sep 23, 2022, 11:41 AM
Sep 2022

Now showing is a 'HOWL-O-WEEN' tablecloth

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