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??

@Josette77 lovely!

Op I think seasonal decor HAS been a thing for a long time. I love to decorate for autumn Christmas winter and spring but not summer 😁poor summer is my resting period in my home. Sure instagram is over the top but I read magazines for years!!! And sometimes those ideas were OTT…I just looked for inspiration and I have always reused many items year after year. Yet I do very much share the concern…it feels too much to me also . Last yr it started for me…every single store selling fall decorations. Cheapie candles and alot of plastic exaggerated Halloween decorations and it does feel too much too cheaply made and too transitional…use this year and buy more next year. And it is put out on display earlier and earlier in the stores. Christmas was always huge but now every single holiday and season has shelves of decor. It is worrisome. As for the cookie jar klohe kardashian started that and everyone knows klohe hasn’t eaten a cookie in a decade. Their pantry’s aren’t for real cooks either.

I love it op, we have a small house and I like marking autumn and then easter. Especially easter as we come out of a tough winter.
Twigs and branches with little things hung on them, some ceramic owls and hedgehogs.

It freshen the house up and makes it feel a bit different.

On continent people decorate definitely

I didn’t see the previous post. Don’t presume to tell me what I am and am not doing. You don’t know me- you have got your back up over a post about decor. Have you had a few too many Friday night Vinos garden?

I know right. Jeeze

It’s just another way to keep the proles poor and forever spending money. The govt hates it when people don’t have to work, so companies find ever more nonsense for people to waste their money on, so they have to keep working and paying taxes.

I thought you were done with my stupidity?

tell me you have plastic bats with out telling me you have plastic bats.

Lia Leendertz publishes an almanac every year, the 2025 one has just come out. Otherwise you can google “Wheel Of The Year” or have a look on Pinterest (which is prob also loathed by the autumn refuseniks 😉) and there’s lots of sustainable, thoughtful, quiet ways to mark the changing of the seasons!

This wasn't on my list
Blimey
And washing pods get this treatment as well. Why?

All the Halloween/ ‘fall’ decor idea has come from across the pond, and enthusiastically encouraged by whoever sells/markets the stuff. When I was a child Halloween wasn’t a big thing at all - no black and orange tat in the shops.
Bonfire Night was the Big Thing, but of course there’s no tat in the shops for that, just fireworks.

Mind you I could say the same about ‘hygge*’ - IMO a very clever marketing ploy to entice people into buying throws and candles, etc.
As if we don’t have our own word, ‘cosiness’.
*Incidentally the word is of the same Old Norse origin as the English ‘hug’.

Christmas is a bit different though - even tat-averse me bought a Father Christmas duvet set for the little Gdcs who share a sofa bed. 🎄

I think someone else replied already, but my almanac was from a local bookshop (also available on Amazon...it's the one the pp listed. I think I'd like a more general wheel of the year as well rather than an annual. It's been lovely this year. Just a reminder to notice the passing of the seasons, changing of light, what that feels like. It's the first time in a while I haven't gone 'how is it September already?!' which I think comes from approaching life more mindfully!

I absolutely don't mind natural materials and so on. Bowls of conkers are gorgeous. But when it becomes an ever changing of 'in trend' motifs that encourage ongoing consumerism etc... that's where I baulk.

oh it’s ’Halloween is American’ season again on mumsnet. Halloween is not sodding American and even if it were, so what?

OP just let people enjoy things. Life is too short to be miserable and judgemental about your neighbours plastic bats.

I’m not saying people can’t enjoy things. I’m stating what I don’t

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This. Thank you

I'm loving your black cats 💞

Wow
so. My post wasn’t aimed at women. You said that. Not me.
I haven’t told anyone their choices are led by instagram etc- I stated where I had seen these things.
nor was it a ‘presumption’ they are called hauls. The people who buy them show where they have purchased.
yes absolutely people are pulled in by marketing. Advertising- it’s why there is a wholleeeeee industry and career in both. Those clothes your wearing, you chose because they looked good, from the way they were advertised. Same as probably your sofa, oven, anything really.

I don’t think I am superior, nor have I implied it. I have simply stated something I don’t like. It’s that simple.
Do you get angry about people liking different things to you usually?
a lot of anger and name calling. Have a pumpkin spiced latte and chill your tiddies.

It’s not “Halloween is American” that we dislike. It’s “America has taken a celebration and consumerised the crap out of it” that’s the problem. Same with everything. A baby shower is cute if it’s get together with friends, buy a few useful gifts. When it’s “buy all this tat you won’t use to celebrate a baby” it becomes ghastly.

@frozendaisy necause it looks nicer on the shelf in the utility than a cardboard box or plastic garish box/bag

Come on, it's not difficult!!

ps: no skin in the game - no glass jar, no shelf, no utility room anymore...

@Outnumberedmummy2022

'this' what!??

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER

'Chridtmas is a bit different'.

only because you buy things for it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I grew up in Scandinavia, my DM always changed the curtains in the spring for a lighter summer fabric ones. Table covers were also changed. All the padded winter coats were packed away too, you wouldn’t catch a padded coat on anyone’s hallway come June.

We also always decorated birch tree sticks with feathers and colourful tissue paper and placed them in a big vase at Easter. As well as painted empty eggshells which were displayed in a bowl.

At mid-summer you’d place big, big silver birch branches on either side of your front door. As well as collecting seven different type of meadow flowers and placing them under your pillow to see your future husband in your dreams that night.

All standard stuff in the 80’s!

I'm fairly certain people's day to day habits contribute more. Take food for example. All that extra packaging on items people simply do not need to eat.