I display a collection of old Goosebumps books and some tiny pumpkins and call it a day. (The Slappy books still frighten me at 34.) Anything with that cursive font is a no for me.
Bless you for putting words to my exact feeling around this. I have sometimes worried that I am ruining my kids childhood by not decorating for fall and Halloween (outside of a cedar and spice scented candle and some golden leafy sticks from the yard stuck in a brownish vase on the table) but I just can't with all the pumpkin and gourd shaped tchotchkes. These didn't exist when I was a kid. For Halloween we each got a pumpkin to carve and the local newspaper sent a giant orange newsprint pumpkin in their newspaper delivery about a week before Halloween that we cut out and taped to the window on our front door. That's when we were still called "citizens" not "consumers." xxoo
WHAT a great piece!!! Had to read it because “fuck decorating for fall” ~ when my boys were small & I was a single mom in med school.. Halloween was my BIG time because I could strew all the cobwebs all over whatever weird little house or apt we were renting at the time & buy all the paper junky decorations w alacrity..
it was such a fab low rent rendezvous
(bTW happened to b outside Boston
Hence, my youngest, now fully a grown well-employed young man.. Goes ALL out on the spooky
decor in his apt in NYC. It is so quirky & hilarious
Anyway.. I, too, am in the fiery hot 🥵 east side of LA completely
Yeah, fuck it!- although I live in Australia so that's easy for me to say, but we certainly don't bedeck our homes in pumpkin paraphernalia when it's Autumn here! I struggle enough decorating for Christmas! It's just not my aesthetic. I hate fake, cheap (I'm not necessarily referring to price), tacky junk so why would it fill my house with it just because it's Christmas and I'm expected to?! I keep it very low-key at our place. Btw, my children have survived that particular "deprivation" Ho-ho-ho!
my first job after I moved to the U.S. was at Pier 1, where i manned the diffuser section and had to sweep up fallen (fake) leaves from the "fall wreaths"
anyway, i bought one of those schoolhouse quilts and i love it! is on my daughter's bed, a winner
I display a collection of old Goosebumps books and some tiny pumpkins and call it a day. (The Slappy books still frighten me at 34.) Anything with that cursive font is a no for me.
The goosebumps books: genius
Genius for sure!
Bless you for putting words to my exact feeling around this. I have sometimes worried that I am ruining my kids childhood by not decorating for fall and Halloween (outside of a cedar and spice scented candle and some golden leafy sticks from the yard stuck in a brownish vase on the table) but I just can't with all the pumpkin and gourd shaped tchotchkes. These didn't exist when I was a kid. For Halloween we each got a pumpkin to carve and the local newspaper sent a giant orange newsprint pumpkin in their newspaper delivery about a week before Halloween that we cut out and taped to the window on our front door. That's when we were still called "citizens" not "consumers." xxoo
better days...
Omg I actually laughed out loud when you said a Jewish Joanna Gaines 😂😂😂😂
Imagine how different the world would be...
Live Laugh L’chaim
Sexy sukkot season!! Also that alternate universe “home” sign — I cannot unsee it!
This post simultaneously made visible all my thoughts ( judgements) on Fall Decor and made me LOL. Amazing!
I will be buying the John Derian cabbageware butter dish but cabbageware is not just for fall it’s for life
great tip
I have that quilt and can attest to the heirloom quality - so well made. That Otherland candle is verrrrrrry tempting
Otherland does have a generous "if you don't like" return policy so just do it!
I am straight up buying that Fall Leaves hand soap...as always, your captions give me all the FEELs.
I want that soap in a lotion and shampoo
WHAT a great piece!!! Had to read it because “fuck decorating for fall” ~ when my boys were small & I was a single mom in med school.. Halloween was my BIG time because I could strew all the cobwebs all over whatever weird little house or apt we were renting at the time & buy all the paper junky decorations w alacrity..
it was such a fab low rent rendezvous
(bTW happened to b outside Boston
Hence, my youngest, now fully a grown well-employed young man.. Goes ALL out on the spooky
decor in his apt in NYC. It is so quirky & hilarious
Anyway.. I, too, am in the fiery hot 🥵 east side of LA completely
stay cool, my fellow mom
U 2 xo
Yeah, fuck it!- although I live in Australia so that's easy for me to say, but we certainly don't bedeck our homes in pumpkin paraphernalia when it's Autumn here! I struggle enough decorating for Christmas! It's just not my aesthetic. I hate fake, cheap (I'm not necessarily referring to price), tacky junk so why would it fill my house with it just because it's Christmas and I'm expected to?! I keep it very low-key at our place. Btw, my children have survived that particular "deprivation" Ho-ho-ho!
amen
I can only hear “Sweater Weather” in SNL voice. But I don’t think the person buying that word cloud sees it that way…
HEHEHE
Perfectly written
<3
That bed blanket quilt throw thing is sooo beautiful... Alas it's 249 dollars.... Probably not sold in France anyway... But I'm smitten
wait for a sale! probably after christmas
VERY smart!!
my first job after I moved to the U.S. was at Pier 1, where i manned the diffuser section and had to sweep up fallen (fake) leaves from the "fall wreaths"
anyway, i bought one of those schoolhouse quilts and i love it! is on my daughter's bed, a winner
I also have the schoolhouse quilt - it’s the best
If I put a pumpkin on my bubbie's table...
Out of the will
I feel seen! 🍁 Fab post. You may like my free read today! 🤣
😂… loved this….