I have an awful lot of Christmas stuff. Artwork, the stuff normally in open shelves, table cloths, pillows and whatnot get exchanged after Thanksgiving for that. I did a lot for Easter and Halloween when the girls were home, but this has been whittled down since the younger daughter went to College. Should go through all these boxes and sort things out. Everybody comes here for Christmas, so no chance I can do less for that.

I love summer. The pergola shade goes up along with summer backyard decor.

Easter things come out in early Spring but I no longer go overboard. a ceramic bunny here and there and a basket of eggs.

Fall is Halloween and sometimes I go all out and sometimes not.

I really do Xmas big in the house. Every room has something. I also have holiday dinnerware we use for the season. Xmas for us starts a week or so after Thanksgiving and ends at the end of the first week of January.

I don't. my maybe 1' plastic Christmas tree sits out all year. I found 2 Christmas oven mitts in a box a few weeks back. must have bought them many, many decades ago or for a gift, but I don't remember. all I could think was 'what in the world will I do with these?' Then we had a really hot day and when I lifted the hood of my car up I knew what to use them for! I'll dig 'em back out and use when I lift the hood. and maybe when I clip the dog out on her cable - some days those are already too hot to touch. The older I get the hotter each summer is to me. I guess 'mitts' won't work with the cable connector tho I'll try a garden glove for that.

I do very little.

Fall is my favorite season and I have some fall themed kitchen towels that I use from mid-Sept to end of November. I have a one foot metal tree that i bring out for Christmas and that is about it for any holiday decorating. Every now and then I will either buy a bouquet of flowers or pick some from the meager production the potted flowers make.

I don't do anything, ever, but we have just been existing here...maybe I will do more when I move. I have many vintage Christmas ornaments, but I haven't put up a tree since my daughter grew up. I will this next Christmas and I am especially looking forward to Christmas baking. I have collected favorite cookie recipes for many years, and I look forward to baking again.

Oh, yes, my home changes with the seasons. On Ash Wednesday, out comes the Easter egg tree (the eggs brought home from a Lenten trip to Germany 30 years ago) and that stays up until Easter Monday, then the florist flowers are replaced by first daffodils and then other garden flowers, when it warms up the houseplants go outside so the house is more barren for summer, fall the houseplants come back in but there are still garden flowers for a while. Centerpieces after the first frost are sometimes fruit and sometimes florists flowers until November when a couple of turkeys are on the dining room table. Then comes Christmas and poinsettias. I do have Christmas dishes which we use from the First Sunday in Advent through Christmas lunch.

I love spring and summer. I work out in the yard and flower beds a couple of hours everyday. The inside of the house is clean and spare during these seasons. All the houseplants go to the screened porch or outside. But I don't mind seeing fall come because I am ready to quit all the work. I decorate for fall and winter and Christmas because I am in the house more. No small children for Christmas, so no tree anymore. And I don't miss it, especially the day after Christmas when everything looks like the party is over. I have lots of Beatrix Potter stuff that I like to decorate for Easter, wish I had little kids around for that.

my home is seasonally & holiday decorated through out the year, Fall being my favorite. i don't do too much Halloween decor, just keep it mostly Fall decorations. i have rice lights & lit branches on my main floor. i just love lights, it makes our home seem so cozy, relaxing and welcoming!

it takes me 3 days to clean and decorate for Christmas which is started the day after Thanksgiving. Everything put away before the New Year.

i also have wax warmer scents that also change with the season:)

Spring and fall my home changes. In the fall all the light weight shear drapes come down and the heavy lined drapes get washed, ironed and hung. The cotton sheets and light bedspreads come off the beds and the fleece sheets, blankets and heavy quilts with a faux fur throws at the bottom of the beds goes on. The throw blankets are brought out for the living room. The faux fur pillows are placed on the sofas and chairs and the alpaca rug is put in front of the fireplace. The bird vase with yellow and blue grasses is replaced with baskets of pine cones on the hearth. The home is buttoned down for the long winter. My favorite season is summer.

I am known for FESTIVE. I don't swap out a lot of textiles etc. but I do have seasonal kitchen towels/table cloth/ place-mats but the only season that gets a new shower curtain is Christmas. I have one-two plastic totes for each month that hold chachkies mostly. I do not have room for more than one set of dishes and if I entertained more that would drive me nuts. I also have some art work that changes with the seasons. Summer is basically patriotic so it's my longest w/o swapping things which works as I am outside in the garden too busy to mess with inside!!

No, I am not a big fan of tchotkes other than the little things that I have on my bookshelf that remind me of special people or places.

When the child was young I did have a few items that came out for Easter, and I did decorate much more for Christmas ( items & garland on the mantle/hearth, a wreath inside the front door, and a few things on tables, like a creche set and some paper figurines.) I still put out a couple of those but not much.

But no holiday themed towels, throws, dishes and so forth.

I love summer, even hot days as long as there is a breeze, and am fond of fall and spring. Seasons seem to go by so fast now that even winter is tolerable.

I love to change up the look of the house in the spring and autumn. I change over bedding, dishes, towels, throw pillows and some of the other decorative elements. I love pulling out lighter fabrics and fresher colors in the spring and warmer fabrics and deeper colors in the autumn. I add Christmas decor around Thanksgiving that stays up through New Year's Day. I don't do much other holiday-specific decorating, but I do have special table linens and dishes to use for Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

My front door wreath gets changed several times throughout the year. I have a patriotic wreath that I use for holidays like Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day and other seasonal wreaths for spring, summer, autumn, Christmas and winter. Sometimes, I'll add an Easter, Valentine's, St. Patrick's Day or Halloween decoration to an existing wreath just for the that holiday.

Christmas decorating aside, I do ‘lighten up’ for spring and summer with several things around the house. Mostly guest towels, mantel decor and a few other things in the den, kitchen and foyer, door wreaths, things like that. I have some Valentine’s, Easter, July 4th, Halloween and Thanksgiving specific things I put out too but not as extensive as I once did. Thanksgiving gets the most attention if we are hosting dinner.

I have a sincere question. For those of you who change out not only towels, but decor, wreaths, pillows, bedding, dishes, etc., where do you store what you are not using during the year? My house doesn't have enough storage space to have a lot of seasonal items, especially for each holiday and each season.

DawnInCal, I have enough storage space in my house and garage, but I know when we downsize, I'll have to give up some of my household goods.

Holiday decor in the storage area under the sun room or in the loft of the shed. Our last house they were either stored in the attic or basement. The pillows don't change I just change out the pillow covers. Those are kept in the night stand in a spare bedroom. Drapes are stored in a closet in the basement. Bedding is stored under the bed. Basements are wonderful things if you are able to have one.

All my Christmas paraphernalia fits in a couple totes in a spare bedroom closet. The indoor stuff anyway. The outdoor stuff is stored in my laundry room,which is HUGE.

Yes, I would love to have a basement. I think they are pretty common in the midwest and on the east coast, but homes in California don't usually have basements. At least not in the areas where I have lived. Many have small attic spaces that can be used for storage, but they are more like a crawl space than a full attic. The house we are in now doesn't have either.

My apologies for going off topic - I was just curious.

Yes basements are common where the ground/pipes could freeze. Ours has a lovely storage space under the stairs--my Christmas stuff is there--as well has a laundry room with shelving units for all my totes. I agree 100% with functionthenlook and I DON'T CARE. My girls LOVE to tell me 'Ya know mom that is going straight to the church garage sale when you die' and I say GO FOR IT.

Dawn, we have small walk-in closets in both spare bedrooms, and I have seasonal decorations in storage bins in one closet. There really isn’t much for any holiday except Christmas. Some Christmas stuff is in the attic; we typically don’t have basements here. I keep small hand towels (plus other spare towels and linens) in a linen closet in our guest bath.

"The more space, the more cr_p. My kids ain't going to be crying when I die because they miss me, they will be crying because they have to clean out all the cr_p. Lol "

I've told my son 'just light a match, toss it in and RUN! ' hopefully he won't actually do that. but I am going to be working on weeding out a ton of stuff. I'm so sick of stuff. I know the kids won't want much of it anyway so I'm not going to hang on to it.

Christmas is my favorite season for decorating, and luckily I have a basement to store the 20 bins, 4 trees and 7 wreaths. I also decorate for Easter, Summer, Fall/Halloween and Thanksgiving. Definitely to a much lesser extent with between 1 to 3 bins per season. Glad my kids will cleaning out everything when I’m gone. Been there, done that for my parent.

Ha,Ha! You guys are funny.

So true about more space equalling more stuff. One thing a house with minimal storage teaches a person is how to be a minimalist! :-)

I do very little. I use to go crazy at Christmas, but now I hardly put out half of the stuff I have. Most of my Halloween decorations never see the light of day anymore. Too. Much. Crap.

We love to decorate at Christmas time. My other favorite is Halloween but I don't put up that much stuff except for on Halloween night. I have an Easter wreath for the front door and that's about it for Easter. Same goes for Saint Patrick's Day. We don't put up more than a wreath but we still celebrate it usually by watching Harrison Ford's version of The fugitive.

I was very surprised when my daughter said she wanted me to keep all of the Christmas decorations. I was trying to downsize so she wouldn't have anything to deal with but she vehemently protested. DS and DN are not interested in any kind of decoration Etc. So it all goes to my daughter.

We store our Christmas stuff in one closet in the spare room. I was hoping it to get it down to half of the closet but that's okay as we would not use it anyway. The Easter Thanksgiving and Halloween decorations are all in one container and are in our garage.

I am going to pare down my Christmas tree ornaments this fall. I haven't put up a tree for 2 years, and although I may (because I still love a tree) I have more ornaments than I can use in one year. I have several 30 year old crystal Waterford balls, for example, that I rarely use because they are so heavy. I guess I will try to sell those.

I LOVED my MILs query 'Why do people think old people need LESS room? We need MORE room so we can stretch out and not run into people"!! At 75 she built her dream home, 1900 square ft ranch.

We over decorate for every holiday, including Valentine's day and St Pat's day. I have towels, plates, cups, pot holders and sofa throws for each holiday

No. Dh wanted to travel for the major holidays. At some point, I realized I was just making more work for myself. I'm cleaning out and donating stuff. I just don't have the patience for it anymore.