Linda Armstrong's Blog - Posts Tagged "knick-knacks"
October's Holiday Start
It's holiday season once again. For three months of the year, we collectively focus on holiday knick-knackery.
It's interesting that the stores don't have as much Halloween knick-knackery as they used to. That shelf space is now taken up by the much more profitable Christmas knick-knacks. I'm sure that the entire retail industry would collapse if people stopped buying knick-knacks of their holidays.
The main problem with holiday knick-knackery is that you have to put them up. Halloween knick-knacks can stay up for about a month, Thanksgiving for two weeks, and Christmas can stay up for three months. After the appropriate time slots, you must always remember to put the holiday knick-knacks away, lest you be deemed to be a weirdo and someone complains to the local HOA or worse, police.
Holiday knick-knacks are different from regular knick-knacks because regular knick-knacks can stay up all year long. It's a good thing there isn't a holiday represented by animals, all those frogs, snail, flamingos that normally chill all year long in people's yards would have to go in a bin in the storage unit.
I jest just a little, mainly because lately there have been holiday knick-knacks that I contest when people take them down. The yards where huge signs of JOY are placed get the same treatment, as if JOY were something that one only gets for the maximum of the Christmas knick-knackery season. My vote would be to have JOY all year long.
Although JOY is not as high on the Map of Consciousness as some other things, it's a great state of being. I recommend it to anyone wondering about what kind of mood to go with for the day.
One last thing about holiday knick-knackery is the fact that you can't have a good Christmas knick-knackery collection without some representation of snow. Having lived almost half my life in snow country, it just doesn't sound the same when palm trees are scattered with holiday lights. I often wonder why these people in the south wish snow on themselves. Let me tell you, it's not a deal-breaker to not have snow for Christmas.
Just chill out. Most people would ask the age old question, "How does that make you feel?"
Try a new question. "How would you like that to make you feel?"
Remember the JOY mode we talked about above? Just go with that one.
It's interesting that the stores don't have as much Halloween knick-knackery as they used to. That shelf space is now taken up by the much more profitable Christmas knick-knacks. I'm sure that the entire retail industry would collapse if people stopped buying knick-knacks of their holidays.
The main problem with holiday knick-knackery is that you have to put them up. Halloween knick-knacks can stay up for about a month, Thanksgiving for two weeks, and Christmas can stay up for three months. After the appropriate time slots, you must always remember to put the holiday knick-knacks away, lest you be deemed to be a weirdo and someone complains to the local HOA or worse, police.
Holiday knick-knacks are different from regular knick-knacks because regular knick-knacks can stay up all year long. It's a good thing there isn't a holiday represented by animals, all those frogs, snail, flamingos that normally chill all year long in people's yards would have to go in a bin in the storage unit.
I jest just a little, mainly because lately there have been holiday knick-knacks that I contest when people take them down. The yards where huge signs of JOY are placed get the same treatment, as if JOY were something that one only gets for the maximum of the Christmas knick-knackery season. My vote would be to have JOY all year long.
Although JOY is not as high on the Map of Consciousness as some other things, it's a great state of being. I recommend it to anyone wondering about what kind of mood to go with for the day.
One last thing about holiday knick-knackery is the fact that you can't have a good Christmas knick-knackery collection without some representation of snow. Having lived almost half my life in snow country, it just doesn't sound the same when palm trees are scattered with holiday lights. I often wonder why these people in the south wish snow on themselves. Let me tell you, it's not a deal-breaker to not have snow for Christmas.
Just chill out. Most people would ask the age old question, "How does that make you feel?"
Try a new question. "How would you like that to make you feel?"
Remember the JOY mode we talked about above? Just go with that one.
