To hate seasonal decor

[Outnumberedmummy2022]

Just that really- I was watching stories on instagram and I can’t help but notice people decorate differently for different seasons- eg. Pumpkin cushions/ornaments, halloweeny props (in sebtember) Xmas yeah that I understand. Summer different colour cushion covers, even rug changes etc. Easter little ornamental decorations, daffodil door wreaths etc etc. But it’s not celebs it’s everyday people! Has this always been a thing??

There's a lot of that about on MN atm.

I follow the seasons and the 8 pagan festivals. Decorate for them. Plant the garden for them.

I love it.

There's a lot of that about on MN atm

Agreed.

I've just imaged googled layered biscuit jars.

Are they the ones you store different biscuits in different bits or, what looks like, the ingredients for a biscuit batch in one big jar in layers?

The image search was mixed, weighted to the ingredients jar preference.

I thought with baking you add ingredients in order, but this sort of looks like you tip it all out, add liquid(?) and mix?

When I was growing up, we had a different tablecloth on Sundays at my grandparents house for different seasons of the year, and a special one for Christmas.

I always liked the autumn one best, it had a grape pattern that I used to trace my fingers along.

We had different coloured candles too, depending on time of year, now I think of it. Summer was pink, Christmas was red.

I think it was lovely, though I haven’t thought about it for years. I wish I still had the tablecloths.

Used to be just on a Saturday night. 🥺

I learnt from my granny. When I was younger, we made things and gathered things from nature to bring in, planted different bulbs, dried herbs and made wee scent bombs for the back of radiators. She did some of it with her granny too.

I hate all the plastic stuff. I always put up hops and dried lavender in the autumn, maybe a few mini pumpkins in the kitchen but that's it. We do have a few Halloween decorations but some are home made and they come out every year.

There's an innate human attachment to the seasons and how it affected us when we truly relied on them.

I use a lot of natural things, like acorns and conkers to fill hurricane lamps. I hand sewed some felt autumnal garlands that come out each year, with a few nice decorations. I have a spring/summer tablecloth and an autumn/winter one.

It's not a bad thing to celebrate the changing of the year. We can be mindful how we do it

I don't love or hate it in general, I just don't have the time and can't be arsed.

I have giant fir cones that come out this weekend. Gleaned them from a field next to a church yard.

For some reason reading this makes me want to drive to Home Bargains and buy the biggest glow in the dark plastic bat I can find.

@TheGriffle, that sounds lovely. If you enjoy it, why not? I decorate the front steps each season too. I make a display with plants or pumpkins, pots of seasonal flowers - primroses, daffodils, tulips in spring, hydrangeas in summer, then chrysanthemum in the autumn, then a Christmas wreath made with greenery from the garden. A few things are annuals, but most are bulbs or perennials which I then plant out in the garden. It gives me so much pleasure - I really enjoy marking the seasons in this way. Most people do this in the neighborhood where I live and it's part of what makes it so special to live here.

But accurate

Another poster on the gardening section told me what I had deleafed for my mums autumn display. It was the Honesty plant.

I recall making corn dolls at primary school too

These were my mums autumn collections back sixty plus years ago.

We use Christmas duvet covers for about 6 weeks every year. We even have 2 sets per bed, for ease of laundering. I have been doing it so long that my first one could do with being replaced.

My Christmas tablecloth and napkins belonged to my granny, who sewed them herself. I have her spring ones too. They must be at least 50 years old and have seen so much use that I really don't see how they can be considered extravagant!

I used to make lavender bags for bedroom drawers. Was a lovely scent

I am counting actually, my table cloths and napkins were made by my granny pre children. They are at least 75 years old. They are the very opposite of landfill tat!!

It's new, for the instagram generation. People with more time and money than sense imho

Well, yes, they’re not in the same league as plastic pumpkins and tinsel cats.

Surely you knew that?

Or neither!

it gets stored in a box, in the , bothering no -one until the next autumn/easter

@Outnumberedmummy2022

& yes, it's been done since the beginning of time. Starting with seasonal flowers, acorns, holly, pine ones etc, paintings, painted/dyed eggs etc

As with everything in our lives it's become commercially supplied.

Dont want to do it, then don't 🤷🏻‍♀️ no one is going to make you, in turn MYOB if others want to.

Some people have a scrunched up opened packet of biscuits in their cupboard and some people.... don't.

Up-thread was a suggestion that some people do something similar with laundry pods.

I recall when the children were young blowing eggs. (Don't have the puff now.) I'd sterilise them in cold water with a solution of Milton's let them dry. Then the boys would decorate them, glue ribbon hoops on and hang from a branch I'd cut in the garden.

At Christmas OH would drill a hole in a half log I'd spray a branch of larch stick it in the hole. Boys used a roll of cotton wool for snow on log, boys would then decorate with mini decorations. Sometimes their friends would visit and make their own. It's amazing what you can achieve with a can of gold and silver paint. 😁

@Persiancarpet

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

pumpkins, painted eggs, daffodils were seasonal decorations LONG Long before insta shite.

If I had to guess, I'd say it was the word 'gleaned' that tipped you over the edge.

@Chickydoo

Same 24/7/365 as you. You've got time to post here, you've got time to put a few decorative items about the place.

you don't want to - fine.

but don't put people down who do.