In case you're keeping track at home, pet peeve #1,206 on my list is people leaving their Halloween pumpkins out on their stoop after Thanksgiving. That just drives me crazy. Halloween is on October 31st. I guess it's OK for you to leave your pumpkins out on display through Thanksgiving but anything beyond that is just asking for trouble. Come December, it takes an amazing amount of self-restraint for me to not smash every one I see.
Thankfully, most of the pumpkins are now gone. That doesn't mean I have no more home decorating concerns. You see, now I'm focused on pet peeve #1,207. That would be my problem with people who don't decorate their front yards for Christmas.
When you were young, didn't it seem like every house was decorated for Christmas? That's the way I remember it. OK, I admit that my memory may be faulty and I could be looking back through rose-tinted glasses at a past that didn't really exist. But, there had to have been more homes decorated for Christmas back when I was young. That was the case even though we had to use those crazy Christmas bulbs that you had to screw into place. And, in upstate New York, we had to put lights up when there was already snow on the ground and it was 20 degrees outside.
I know some of my neighbors will read this and I'm probably going to get in trouble but, by my count this evening, less than one-third of the houses on the street are decorated. What's up with that? I'm not looking for a Clark Griswold display (although that would be nice). Candles in the windows will do just fine. Come on, people. You can do better.
This is where the magic happens.
