Aloha Friday Edition No. 3

My pal Kailani at An Island Life hosts this great meme, Aloha Fri­day, based upon a very pop­u­lar term used in Hawaii when island res­i­dents take it easy and look for­ward to the upcom­ing week­end — kind of like T.G.I.F. The meme involves no long posts, no deep soul search­ing rev­e­la­tions … just a lit­tle fun.

Each Fri­day, Kailani posts a sim­ple ques­tion or topic of con­ver­sa­tion. Vis­i­tors leave a com­ment on Kailani’s site and then post a ques­tion or short dis­cus­sion topic on their own site. Par­tic­i­pants visit each other’s sites and respond with a com­ment! Even if you do not post a ques­tion or topic on your site, you can still play by sim­ply leav­ing a comment!

Here’s my ques­tion for this edi­tion:

When we walked out of my sister’s house last evening to head home, we noticed that a cou­ple of her neigh­bors’ homes were brightly lit up by Christ­mas lights. Some folks had their Christ­mas trees vis­i­ble from a win­dow in the front of their house fac­ing the street. Do you dec­o­rate your home for Christ­mas? If so, when do you put up your tree and/or other decorations?

My answer: We dec­o­rate but I refuse to do it before Decem­ber 15th. This year, since my birth­day is on Fri­day and we will be on vaca­tion, we will prob­a­bly put up the tree and other dec­o­ra­tions that day. When I was grow­ing up, we dec­o­rated a cou­ple of weeks before Christ­mas and put every­thing away on New Year’s Day. New Year’s Eve was always the last night that our Christ­mas tree was lit. I have always stuck with that tradition.

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On the Same Topic:

• Aloha Fri­day Edi­tion No. 13
• Aloha Fri­day Edi­tion No. 12
• Aloha Fri­day Edi­tion No. 11
• Aloha Fri­day Edi­tion No. 10
• Aloha Fri­day Edi­tion No. 9