Do you decorate the rig for Christmas. . .and if you do. . .where do you keep all that stuff?
All of our storage bays are filled with everyday living items. . .or at least items that are necessary to living full time in the RV when you don’t have an off premise storage anywhere. . .even the pass through bay, although empty while we are parked, is completely taken up on travel days with the satellite dish, the water filter and miscellaneous other items of necessity!
When I see folks who are all decorated up for holidays. . .Halloween. . . Thanksgiving. . . Christmas. . .trees, lights, yard ornaments. . .I think they must at least have a storage building somewhere. . .
When the boys got married. . .we gave them all of their collected Christmas Memories to take with them. . .and sold the rest in the estate sale. . .bah humbug. . .LOL!
What about you. . .have you scaled back. . .or do you still go all out?
It’s coming up. . .right around the corner. . .decorations already popping up in the stores. . .just curious?
Janice
I have one plastic bin that contains all my decorating stuff in it. I don't carry much just enough to make the MH feel like the holidays.
ReplyDeleteI think motorhomes have more outside storage. . .I do not have one single solitary thing. . .nothing. So far we've been okay with that. . .but I certainly enjoy seeing everyone else's decorating. . .
DeleteWe carry a small tree with LED optical lights on it that we set up. I buy a few inexpensive decorations and then donate to a thrift store after the holidays.
ReplyDeleteIt's crossed my mind a couple of times to do the same . . .I would get a small cut tree, decorate it with Dollar Store stuff, and then just toss the entire thing at the end of the season. . .so far, I've resisted. . .we did go all out when we had a house. . .sometimes I miss it. . .
DeleteWe got two things our first Christmas on the road...a fake wreath for the front of the rig and a small pine decoration for inside. A couple of years ago, a dear friend gave us a small nativity she had made so I bought a few pine stems to put behind it. That's it. On New Year's day, it takes less than 5 minutes to walk out of the motor home, go around to the driver's side, open the bay, get out the storage box, put everything in it, and return to the inside of the motor home. Anything more than that would be too much stuff in our book. Come to think of it, we may get Freeway a little something festive to wear. ;-)
ReplyDeleteSounds like you have a good, out of the way place to store something. . .maybe when we have more outside storage, I can consider something. . .and of course Freeway MUST be decked out for the season. . .
DeleteWe store holiday decoration in our suit cases, stashed under the bed. Since we usually only use the suitcases once or twice a year for vacations, that puts them to use the rest of the time. Using the suitcases also helps us to keep a limit the amount of decorations we have -- though I've thought of getting bigger ones.
ReplyDeleteah. . .it's always good when there's a limit!
DeleteLittle late getting in on this discussion. We recently purchased our BigHorn 5ver after having a TT. We have traveled with our decorations in a plastic tote. We were able to keep all of them when we moved to the 5th wheel. (And, we have a 9 ft. inflatable raft w/engine too.) Just got done setting up with all our Halloween decor outside. Can't wait to decorate for Christmas in our "new" home!
ReplyDeleteLove your new rig. . .can't wait to see your Christmas Decor. . .added your blog to my Google Reader list. . .thanks for taking the time to comment!
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