Hello World! Welcome Friends! First and foremost, you’re in an ideal situation for decoration if you live in Florida. It’s warm year-round, and you don’t have to contend with snow past your belly button while you’re trying to hang Christmas lights. One of the reasons you start hearing Christmas songs after Halloween is because of this reality.
Planning In Advance
It gets so cold up north, as soon as people can hang lights, they do; and sometimes they leave them hidden year-round owing to the difficulty. In places like Wyoming, you can tell how many trick-or-treaters you missed by the footprints in the snow, the first snow, which generally hits within a week of Halloween. It melts, and soon after, people put up lights. (It doesn’t always melt, though. Sometimes it hits in October, the ground freezes, and it doesn’t melt till June.)
Accordingly, in a sort of unconscious way, everyone in the north at that point prepares for Christmas—including the shops, which start blaring Christmas carols. This trickles down to the south through travelers and corporate decisions; meaning you will almost always start hearing those “jingle bell” tunes before Thanksgiving.
In Florida, you don’t have to get lights up weeks or months before Christmas owing to the cold; if you want to, you can throw those jeweled sparkling bulbs up the week before. However, you do benefit from planning in advance, and in this writing, we’ll cover that as well as a few other considerable strategies as regards Christmas décor in Florida.
1. Buy Lights And Decorations Right After Christmas
As you’re reading this, it’s likely too late for you to buy 2020 Christmas decorations before Christmas; at least, it’s too late to get them on sale at clearance. But after Christmas this year, there will be a blowout on Christmas decorations, lights, and associated paraphernalia. Ornaments, nativity scenes, elves on shelves—it’ll be priced to go.
Wait until the twenty-sixth if you like, but even better is waiting until right before or after the new year, depending on the store you’re looking at. Generally, department stores will offer Christmas décor for a few weeks after the holiday at an extreme discount, meaning you can plan for next year in advance, saving hundreds of dollars—or at minimum expanding your buying power.
If you buy ornaments, lights, and other décor right after Christmas, $300 will get you what $1,000 or more would in October or November. Of course, that depends on where you are; but as a rule of thumb, you should expect your buying power to go up by a factor of between two and five, depending on how savvy you are as a shopper.
2. Prepare For Wind And Rain
By Christmastime in Florida, hurricane season has ended; but that doesn’t mean you’re totally out of the woods. Especially if you’re on one of the state’s nigh-endless coasts, wind and rain can pick up out of nowhere. Be sure you secure exterior decoration such that wind won’t malign it, and that you protect electrical outlets so water doesn’t cause electrical danger.
3. Match Decor To Climate
Florida décor is unique. It tends to include “Christmas” palm trees, starfish, and other nautically-themed ornamentation. Lean into that, there’s a beautiful flavor to such an approach. It’s going to be subtly different than what Californians do, owing to the more temperate quality of the Floridian peninsula.
Sea-themed décor is absolutely appropriate in Florida, but don’t go exclusively with this sort of decoration. Include a few dioramas or nativity scenes that incorporate snow. The Nativity was in Israel, true; but you can take a little license with décor as it suits what you’re about.
Christmas Cheer In Sub-Tropical, Sunny Florida
There’s nothing like three feet of snow outside your home as you and your family open presents by a roaring fire, enjoy hot cocoa and one another’s company, listen to Christmas music, and watch fluffy bits of snow trickle down from the heavens. That said, Floridian Christmas has the potential to be even more festive.
Australia similarly does “warm” Christmas celebration; one of their primary moves is having an outdoor Christmas barbecue. Similar circumstances define The Sunshine State. These are all worthwhile things to keep in mind, should you move to Florida. You might start a tradition of frying up some “Christmas gator” if that’s something your family gets a kick out of.
Regardless, take care to at least get deals, prepare for the weather, and match your décor to the climate where you are—these tips will help you harmoniously match your region in terms of décor.
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