Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Am I missing something here? When did nutcrackers come into it? And why would you want to collect nutcrackers? How would you tell them apart from each other - most of them seem to be very similar.

Over the years I've inclined more and more towards not bothering with other forms of decorations other than lights of one kind and another. We have a couple of sort of swag things in fake Christmas tree type stuff with white lights in, and a wreath (same kind of stuff, also with lights) and then I like to put strings of lights up round the inside of the house and one string of them outside. DD thinks this is very boring of me - she would prefer the outside ones to be enormous animated snowmen or something, but I prefer just strings of lights without pictures or even writing.

However, that raises the question of what to do with the lights - leave them on most of the time, only switch on for a little while in the evening? What do other NP do? How about our uber-fire-conscious NPs? Do you (or would you) stick to non-electric decorations?

I don't know why nutcrackers.....we just get nutcrackers out for Christmas,....hang on....



There they are....

Can you see they are different? Its quite dark already, I put the candles on but not the lights.

I like fairy lights.

We have them there and on sitting room fire place. And several in bedroom year round. We have lights on tree, ( warm white) in a lot, but not overnight.

I'd like lights outside but not got energy to do it.


I know DH would love a fibre optic tree that changed colours. He's so silly.

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

No, cried in a frustrated and angry and fed up and lots of other negative emotions way.

My family aren't sentimental, I have a few from them, but they are gold, or near enough. so it works. Others are glass and one day we might have two trees. when I have more energy.

Sorry to hear you are feeling like that.

I read this initially as if the two paragraphs were linked, thus saying that your family aren't sentimental so you have only a few negative emotions from them. I was then mystified as to how negative emotions could be gold, and therefore make "it" work, and it was only that you said some were glass that I realised you were talking about decorations. :rotfl:

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

I don't know why nutcrackers.....we just get nutcrackers out for Christmas,....hang on....

We always had nutcrackers at Christmas too, because Christmas was when we ate nuts. They were just tools, though, and the same two nutcrackers came out to crack nuts every Christmas from before I was born to the last time I had Christmas at my parents' house. I'd never heard of collecting them. It's so interesting to learn other families' traditions.

In answer to you original question, no, I don't see why you should collect nutcrackers unless YOU want to, which it seems you don't, so don't.

Wheezy_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

No idea, had Dairylea light before.... but not for some years. Just ate 2 of them... box contains 24, so I might get a liking for them by the time I'm half way through; thta's going to be 12 lunches.

I would eat Dairylea, but their triangles just don't unravel as they're supposed to do when you pull that little red string :mad: and you end up with cheesy paws.

Maybe I'm just clumsy, but the Laughing Cow triangles surely open much easier. And slightly tastier also imo.

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

I don't know why nutcrackers.....we just get nutcrackers out for Christmas,....hang on....


There they are....

Can you see they are different? Its quite dark already, I put the candles on but not the lights.

I like lights.

We have them there and on sitting room fire place. And several in bedroom year round. We have lights on tree, ( warm white) in a lot, but not overnight.

I'd like lights outside but not got energy to do it.

I know DH would love a fibre optic tree that changed colours. He's so silly.

Those figures on the mantlepiece are nutcrackers? My family only ever had ones like this:

lostinrates

Yep, they are nutcrackers, like the chap in the ballet, the nutcracker.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=nutcrackers&client=safari&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=05-cUp3xF8a10QX3lYGwDQ&ved=0CEcQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=672


I have had night mares that bazillions of them march in, and storm the house.

Edit, bazillions should have read battalions!

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

With the nutcrackers, I admit I don't like them. My mother buys them and I have nightmares thy are taking over. But this year I thought we should collect them (random thought because people collect things) at the rate of one every year. Only every year of what. If its since we have been married we are already behind, so should I but some to catch up with the shortfall, or just start collecting things I don't particularly like but would put out for Christmas from now on?

My mind is a strange place.

If you've no mind to collect things, you can't fix that by inventing something to collect. It either comes, or doesn't.... but you can't make something up to collect or you won't get the buzz from it.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

Those figures on the mantlepiece are nutcrackers? My family only ever had ones like this:

Mine too ... I think it's a new level of poshness even you've not seen before

PasturesNew

Wheezy wrote: »

I would eat Dairylea, but their triangles just don't unravel as they're supposed to do when you pull that little red string :mad: and you end up with cheesy paws.

Maybe I'm just clumsy, but the Laughing Cow triangles surely open much easier. And slightly tastier also imo.

You're right - the red thing always leaves the corners intact. The Lidl ones do unravel, without a red tag.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

However, that raises the question of what to do with the lights - leave them on most of the time, only switch on for a little while in the evening? What do other NP do? How about our uber-fire-conscious NPs? Do you (or would you) stick to non-electric decorations?

Electric lights on the tree - turned on when it's dark and the room lights are out .... and never left on if you're not there.