Escalating Holiday Decorations

[Ghel]

It started out small. It started early. The Newest Full-timer brought in a small Christmas tree (the kind that plugs in to USB for its power) in the middle of November and set it on her work area.

Then a week before Thanksgiving, Goodhair decided we should do holiday cards to send out to good customers and area businesses. He wanted the cards to feature a group photo of all the branch's employees (all 8 of us, including the part-timer) in front of the Christmas tree. So NF and a couple others set up the Christmas tree, and we took the picture. They put up wreaths along the teller line at the same time.

Other decorations started to trickle in. Goodhair put his Charlie Brown looking Christmas tree on his desk. PT brought in ceramic snowmen and a glass goblet full of LED lights. The head teller bought little stockings for each of us filled with candy canes, hand lotion, and chapstick. (I hung mine where the infamous moose painting used to be.)

Not wanting to be the only one without holiday decorations in their area, I brought in a (fake) cranberry wreath and hung it in my office.

Yesterday, PT hung Christmas ornaments from ribbons attached to the ceiling over her work area. NF brought in a Santa statue that has a LCD countdown to Christmas in his belly. I expect this will continue escalating, with PT and NF bringing in the most holiday decorations, until Christmas. Or maybe even longer.

[dalesys]

Find "The War of the Lights" by The Therapy Sisters from "Codependent Christmas" on whatever str/scr-eaming service you like.

[KuariKaydrith]

I'm wondering how much longer it will be before more people start decorating their cubes here at work. I've got a little tree in one corner of my desk but that is about it this year. The pop of colour really stands out against my black cube walls and black desk top (no, not the usual colour for a cubicle - I put poster paper on the walls and black adhesive vinyl on the desk top itself). Most of my desk accessories are also black so any bit of colour tends to stand out. Now if I could have gotten a black tree with black ornaments I would have done that...

I know my first Christmas here I decorated my desk with wrapping paper, garland, and bright decorations, but I just haven't been feeling it for the past couple of years. Hence the black desk in a sea of grey :P

[Jetfire]

Get a little tree and paint it black, and look for black lights next halloween and you can probably make your black tree with black lights.

Here at my workplace we don't seem to escalate too badly. A few people have had the USB Trees for years, and we have a big tree in the lobby that just went up last week. IT decorates their offices too. Otherwise, we don't get too much cubicle decorations.

[KuariKaydrith]

I think you're onto something there, Jetfire...my little tree will be getting a nice coat of black paint after Christmas. If I am still here next Halloween I will set up the tree along with season appropriate decorations Eyeballs, little ghosts, spiders, and cobwebs!

[notalwaysright]

Sunday as I was driving home from work I was blown away by the Christmas Lights! I wonder if my town has some rule which says lights can't be put up until the first Sunday in December. Doubtful, but seriously on Saturday there were NO lights, and Sunday every single house on certain streets had them up. Very pretty.

[Trixie]

This year I noticed a lot of houses decorated the week before Thanksgiving. Just seemed like people were in the holiday spirit early this year. Since I work in a store there's not a whole lot I can do. In my first job which was in a big windowless office one year we went nuts with the decorations. All kinds of things were hanging from the ceiling. Somebody found wrapping paper that had a snowy landscape on it and stuck it up on the wall to make it look like a window. That was pretty fun.

[MoonCat]

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[Racket_Man]

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ONE of the things they have NOT cut out of that show yet.

I now prefer to watch my DVD copy as the broadcast version has been cut to shreds.

[BeeMused]

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[Food Lady]

I still haven't put up my tree....

[MoonCat]

I still haven't put up my tree....

Don't feel bad, all we have is a little mini tree that my brother used to use when we lived in the old neighborhood. I still haven't looked into getting a full size one.

And re: that Peanuts Christmas special, yeah, I was pretty disappointed this year, they cut out the scene where the kids are catching snowflakes on their tongues, the scene where they throw snowballs at the can on the fence, and Schroeder and Lucy doing the "Can you play Jingle Bells?" scene. I was NOT happy. I need to get that on DVD so I can actually see the WHOLE SHOW.

For me, it's not Christmas until the Peanuts gang shouts "Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!"

[Racket_Man]

And re: that Peanuts Christmas special, yeah, I was pretty disappointed this year, they cut out the scene where the kids are catching snowflakes on their tongues, the scene where they throw snowballs at the can on the fence, and Schroeder and Lucy doing the "Can you play Jingle Bells?" scene. I was NOT happy. I need to get that on DVD so I can actually see the WHOLE SHOW.

For me, it's not Christmas until the Peanuts gang shouts "Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!"

Same here

They also cut out Charlie Brown taking dictation from his sister Sally for her letter to Santa. THAT was when I went to the DVD this year.

I do miss the Dolly Madison and Coke commercials (major sponcers in the 1960's and 70's).

YEs I have been watching that show since it first came on in 1965.

[Seanette]

Not that I've watched the Peanuts Christmas special in a few years, but what's with scenes being cut? Just to cram in more commercials?

[Trixie]

Then there is the extra half-hour of cartoons they stuck just to make it an hour. The only one I can remember is Linus trying to give a card to a girl but she keeps giving him different names. Judging by what everyone has already said I'm glad I missed it this year. And maybe I'm just getting old and grouchy but after watching the Thanksgiving one I want to ship all those kids off to military school. Especially Peppermint Patty.