Holiday thread 2010 - So we don't have a fuckton of seperate threads
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Yep, it's that time again, it's almost time to celebrate Thanksgiving/Christmas/Hanukkah/whatever holiday it is you celebrate, now I know it just hit November, but I just want you to realize, that this thread is for all holidays, so this includes Halloween, which just came and went. Sadly though, when it comes to Halloween, I don't do much, for I live on a very busy street, one that nobody trick-or-treats on, so I would have no one to scare with my decorations, and boy, my house would be perfect to do that with too, alas.
But before we start the chatter, I figure I'll tell you what this thread is for:
Posting what you do for the holidays.
Posting how stupid op is for wasting money on tons of Christmas lights and how he should kill himself.
Asking for help(or giving help) on how to decorate your house or rooms.
Asking for help(or giving help) on what to get x person for y holiday.
To replace all of the other threads made for specific holidays, I noticed that we had like 3 Halloween threads in GD today and decided I would make this.
Things this thread is not made for:
Arguing for or against religion.
Saying y holiday is stupid and how poster should kill himself and x person.
Saying y holiday stemmed from z holiday and it's just a ripoff, it's more than likely we already know.
Okay, so let's be honest, I made this thread because I fucking love Christmas and Christmas decorations, and I was curious if any other Facepunchers loved decorating for a specific holiday as well, so post what do you and when you do it, preferably with pictures.
So this was my Christmas last year, right.
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2nd picture is to the front and right of the house.
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and this year I'm not completely sure what I want to do with all these lights, I was thinking about something like in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, minus the roof, but with more color, but I'm not sure.
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So I was thinking, what crazy shit would Facepunch have me do? So here I am, here is a map of my house, and you can gather what it looks like from the street from the pictures I just posted. So I haven't exactly counted how many lights I have yet, I will soon, but last year I had around 10,500(105 strings of 100), so let's factor in dead loss and put it at 9,000. So that's 90 strings of various colored lights, and I'm not sure what to do with them this year, I'm not putting them on the evergreen, it was a gigantic pain to do that before, and it was even worse taking them down.
OKAY THE MAP
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Outlet A can support as many lights as I have.
Outlet B can support and 10 to 20 strings.
Outlet C can support around 35 strings.
In case you couldn't guess, the brown indicates trees and green indicates bushes, and the sizes of the trees are the sizes of the stumps, except for the evergreens. Now normally we do all of the bushes, unmarked tree, two small evergreens and go around the garage doors. Only last year I decided to fuck with the yellow birch, and fittingly enough I used gold and clear lights, so FP, what do?
and so, I post this hoping that I'm not the only one that enjoys decorating for holidays, and that we can all have a friendly discussion about the decorations we use and the traditions we do.
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Also, I will post updates on what I am doing with my lights as time goes by.
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I'm going to sort the lights out tomorrow and get an exact count, and any suggestions are welcome.
Make the evergreen into a giant penis using the lights.
I don`t like decorating but I like getting presents
Oh and those decorations make me think of that one Simpsons episode where Homer fails at putting up the ornaments on his roof.
DO THIS
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ah yes taking the time to put up the dreaded christmas lights up
someone kill me
i hate the holidays becauseit reminds me of how alone i am
[url]www.Firequest.com[/url] is helping me with my christmas needs.
[QUOTE=Zambies!;25821869][url]www.Firequest.com[/url] is helping me with my christmas needs.[/QUOTE]
Winner
Okay, I have 7,310 working lights(not including icicles I forgot to count them and I have no idea how many lights there are in a string, but I have two or three), and about 30 strings with half working lights that I MAY be able to salvage.
400 red, 400 clear, 300 faded purple/pink, one string of 250 multi-colored, 900 green, 700 multi-colored LED icicles, 2,500 multi-colored, 100 red/green, 500 blue, 100 red/green/clear, 60 clear LED, 900 clear net lights and two or three strings of clear icicles.
what do
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[QUOTE=shatteredwindow;25821654]Make the evergreen into a giant penis using the lights.[/QUOTE]
actually I think there are a couple little shrubs right in front of one of the evergreens, so I might be able to do this.
[QUOTE=Dysplasia;25836829]Okay, I have 7,310 working lights(not including icicles I forgot to count them and I have no idea how many lights there are in a string, but I have two or three), and about 30 strings with half working lights that I MAY be able to salvage.
400 red, 400 clear, 300 faded purple/pink, one string of 250 multi-colored, 900 green, 700 multi-colored LED icicles, 2,500 multi-colored, 100 red/green, 500 blue, 100 red/green/clear, 60 clear LED, 900 clear net lights and two or three strings of clear icicles.
what do
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actually I think there are a couple little shrubs right in front of one of the evergreens, so I might be able to do this.[/QUOTE]
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I hate Christmas, the food is shit, the presents aren't very good and worst of all: the decorations and music are annoying.
I really want to make this.
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[QUOTE=Coffee;25837534]I hate Christmas, the food is shit, the presents aren't very good and worst of all: the decorations and music are annoying.[/QUOTE]
well aren't you just a little ball of sunshine
[QUOTE=Brett Favre;25837586]well aren't you just a little ball of sunshine[/QUOTE]
One that you'd probably fumble.
[QUOTE=JoeyZ;25837602]One that you'd probably fumble.[/QUOTE]
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Snow, I have no problem with, but that usually comes in about late January/Early February due to the outstanding weather pattern of the UK.
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That is one of the things that I've really been thinking about doing, because like last year, the second floor of the house ALWAYS looks so dark and boring, and that house looks awesome, so that makes me want to do this more.
[QUOTE=Coffee;25837534]I hate Christmas, the food is shit, the presents aren't very good and worst of all: the decorations and music are annoying.[/QUOTE]
tailor your Christmas celebrations to the way you want it to be, play death metal put up whatever decor you like do whatever you want to make yourself happy, that's kind of the point of the holidays, make yourself and your family(if you like them) happy, celebrate, be happy, make special food, whatever.
cheers
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tailor your Christmas celebrations to the way you want it to be, play death metal put up whatever decor you like do whatever you want to make yourself happy, that's kind of the point of the holidays, make yourself and your family(if you like them) happy, celebrate, be happy, make special food, whatever.
cheers[/QUOTE]
Are you suggesting that I can have a Pork Curry for Christmas while I listen to 80s Synthpop?
[QUOTE=Coffee;25837874]Are you suggesting that I can have a Pork Curry for Christmas while I listen to 80s Synthpop?[/QUOTE]
if that makes you happy, just remember your friends and family(if you have any/if your family likes you), don't become so self absorbed that you ignore them, though, then they wouldn't be happy.
holiday season is the time to make yourself, among other people(like family), happy, and people seem to overlook that, thinking that Christmas is just about decorations and presents for your kids. Personally, these annoying decorations make me very happy, and they seem to make a lot of other people around here happy as well.
I suppose you've got a point there.
But I still hate the music and decorations of christmas. I don't think you can help me on that point.
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