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Brother and sister, originally from Alabama who are now both Nashvillians, break down anything and everything. Trying our best to find the humor wherever we can. Hosted by Amy Goodgame and Marty Booth.
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Deck The Halls
Ever wondered how a simple quest for the perfect Christmas lights can turn into a holiday escapade reminiscent of a sitcom episode? Join us as we recount our hilariously mismatched adventures, from scaling trees to wrestle with rebellious lights to the windy chaos of taming inflatables. If you're the type whose festive enthusiasm rivals Clark Griswold or you're just trying to keep up with your more spirited partner, we’ve got stories and tips that promise both laughter and enlightenment.
Nostalgia meets modernity as we debate the merits of classic warm lights against the cool efficiency of LEDs. We trade friendly jabs over real versus artificial trees and the age-old colored versus white light dilemma. Alongside these spirited debates are the tales of festive rebellion against HOA rules, dreaming of popcorn and hot chocolate nights on the porch, and the comforting chaos of collecting sentimental ornaments like nutcrackers.
For those gearing up to transform their yards into winter wonderlands, our episode is packed with practical wisdom. From extension cord strategies to the art of balancing lights on precarious perches, we wrap up with safety tips to ensure your holiday decor journey is joyous, not perilous. So, grab your favorite festive drink and settle in as we take you on a merry ride through the world of Christmas decorations, where the line between chaos and cheer is always blurred but never dull.
Welcome to hey Real Quick with Amy and Marty.
Speaker 2:How's it going?
Speaker 1:It's going all right, it's December.
Speaker 2:Well, actually today is.
Speaker 1:Not today.
Speaker 2:Today is November the 20th.
Speaker 1:But in podcast land. When this lands, it will be in December.
Speaker 2:That's right.
Speaker 1:Yeah so.
Speaker 2:Do you have your Christmas decorations done or started?
Speaker 1:I don't Started.
Speaker 2:Oh, you've already started. No, no, I don't have them started right now.
Speaker 1:I just got confused with time travel.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:But yeah, back to the future. I will, I will, I will. I've got to you know what I got to do? A refresh on my outdoor.
Speaker 2:Oh, you're getting new stuff.
Speaker 1:A few things. I'm not great at the outdoor, because if you're married, okay, whatever significant other. If you're not, both on team, like hey, heavy decorations outdoor too, all that stuff, if only one person especially if it's me, because I'm weak um, it just doesn't get done. You know what I mean? Yeah and for the last five years my husband has gotten up in the maple tree not the big, big one, but the smaller maple and hung white lights like kind of zigzag.
Speaker 1:I mean not like opryland hotel style but you know, like just kind of pretty white lights, and then we do these extra big um, like ornaments that you hang outside from the tree. I've seen.
Speaker 1:But we're both over 50. So now I'm like, hey, maybe we shouldn't be going up in trees, yeah, so like there's not going to be any gutter lights, I'm not paying a team of people, so this is all DIY. So I'm thinking about doing a couple of little like things on my porch and maybe some of those little white trees that kind of go in a spiral that are lit. They come in like a group of three that you can put in your yard, you know simple simple white because I think the days of the inflatable.
Speaker 1:I'm going to say this driving here today.
Speaker 2:I don't do inflatables anymore.
Speaker 1:So it's a bit blustery here in Nashville today and this man who already has lots of inflatables in our, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:Oh, I know what you're talking about oh yeah, he's awesome.
Speaker 1:He's like an author and speaker. By the way, he's a great person. Like super cool dude. He does a countdown in our neighborhood that says like 32 days till christmas and he starts at like 60 days or 30 more sleeps or whatever. Yeah 32 sleeps till christmas or something like that. And his inflatables were all over the place this morning because it's windy up in here but um, but yeah I'm. I'm done with the inflatables, because I don't like the mud, I don't like it blowing over.
Speaker 2:And then it rains, and then it rains.
Speaker 1:And then do you wash them off and all that stuff. And I do have wreaths that I put on my outdoor windows, but that's the extent of my outdoor. What's your outdoor? Your outdoor is like. Clark Griswold, isn't it? Come on.
Speaker 2:Uh-uh, it's not which. I'll say this separate topic well, when you get the wreaths on the windows yes, do they light up or no? No.
Speaker 1:I know you have light up, well, we do light up. But then you got the batteries oh yeah, get ready, and then you gotta like yeah that's. I don't know how much that calls yeah, take out a loan to light up your wreaths, I know, but then you got to.
Speaker 2:They always kind of die out. No matter how you plant it when it's. Christmas Eve two going to be quit working.
Speaker 1:You're like, I'm not going to get more batteries, no, no.
Speaker 2:So we don't do inflatables and we don't pay for a construction crew to come out and put lights on our house, yeah, what I don't enjoy is alright, so used to. You had colored lights on the tree.
Speaker 1:Now you can change colors and all that stuff.
Speaker 2:What I don't like is okay. So you have team warm white and then you have team LED. So Robin will find. I guess we got some deer or something. We just kind of stake them up in the oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I try to do it easy. Now I'm like I'm not putting anything in the grass. I'll put it in the flower bed where the mulch is.
Speaker 1:Right. So if I need to run over the grass with a lawnmower or something, I don't have to move deer. Yeah, I'm a maniac.
Speaker 2:And then we have deer and, like I don't know, yeah, nutcrackers or whatever A lot of steaks.
Speaker 1:A lot of steaks, a lot of steaks, a lot of zip ties, a lot of rubber mallets yeah, or just one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, maybe I should get two.
Speaker 1:Have you seen his rubber mallet collection? It's fantastic.
Speaker 2:But yeah, I don't like it because we'll buy something or she will. She'll be like, oh, I saw this snowman, or whatever. But, then you get home, put it all together with the zip ties.
Speaker 1:Oh my.
Speaker 2:Or whatever, yeah, plug it in. You're like, whoa, that's really bright, yeah, or that's. And then you put all your old deer out there or whatever, and you're like it's a totally different color.
Speaker 1:And they look like they have jaundice yeah.
Speaker 2:Because they're like the warm, warm, white.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm going to say I do not like LED. This is not Nashville Airport runway. It's too bright.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:All right. I used to like the LED, but this is all right. I think we're on the same page.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because now, when it comes to white lights, I like warm.
Speaker 1:Me too.
Speaker 2:Classic.
Speaker 1:Me too.
Speaker 2:Just classic. But when it comes to if you're going to do colored lights, then I like LED.
Speaker 1:For outdoor everything.
Speaker 2:Outdoor, but you know the outdoor color lights pop.
Speaker 1:They're like crazy. That's when.
Speaker 2:I like LED.
Speaker 1:Because they're brighter. Yeah, I get it, but outdoor white ones.
Speaker 2:It just looks like I don't know. I'm not trying to bash on anybody's.
Speaker 1:LED, but it's too bright, it's too much, it's like the headlights, it's like easy You've got to dim those buddy. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Our boys, some of their friends, their parents, really get into Halloween and Christmas decorations.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So they've already started putting up their Christmas, like a week ago.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow Like mid-November, basically like after Halloween they start.
Speaker 2:So like oh wow, Like mid-November, Basically like after Halloween, they start, yeah. And then they got a thing saying so they put all the lights up, they have the. You know, you pull up to the house and it says tuned to radio 88.3 or whatever it is.
Speaker 1:Does it do a little dance with the?
Speaker 2:lights. Their whole house does like a, like a whole jam or whatever.
Speaker 1:Presentation Jam.
Speaker 2:We're going to PowerPoint Christmas, but this year I was talking to their dad and he actually got. You know the people that come out and put the lights. Oh, yeah, yeah he got the ones that are like. I was so jealous because I ain't doing it but, they look cool. He got the ones that are like year-round, so it's like kind of hidden like up under, yeah, and then you can program it whatever color you want. So anyway, uh, they go all out. So they only turn them on, I think, for like a few hours.
Speaker 1:You know like six to nine or something like that and then they got a letter or something. Or something that you can't have your Christmas lights on until December 1st Is this their HOA, their HOA, didn't we already have?
Speaker 2:HOA. What kind of stuff is that?
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:But anyway. That's ridiculous when I put my stuff out, I'm not going to put it out and not turn it on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you can go back in the house, you don't have to look at it. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I told our boys I was like if our neighbors did that first of all, I'd be on the front porch with popcorn every night.
Speaker 1:Be like you want to see it again? Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah, have a fire pit out there selling hot chocolate oh yeah, all but a food truck in there.
Speaker 2:Y'all want some s'mores just like a reindeer, yeah um, that's awesome but yeah, it's, yeah, it's pretty cool yeah but we don't do that. Yeah, ours is all. Yeah, tasteful Stuff that doesn't tasteful.
Speaker 1:Let's say Christmas lights and tasteful. I don't think they need to be put together. You know what I mean. I think if you want to go bazonker and have your whole yard full of inflatables, go on with your bad self because you're about to entertain some people. You know what I mean, because it's the one time a year that you're like, yeah, let's put lights outside.
Speaker 2:And you do all that work and then somebody says you can't. That's going to be a Christmas light fight right there.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, that's a different Christmas light fight.
Speaker 2:We did get addicted to that show a couple years ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah, people decorating, yeah, yeah. It just always reminds me a little bit of when you know Christmas vacation they finally light up the house and then you see the power company, like all the yeah, the little meter.
Speaker 1:I'm like your light bill's going to be high. Okay, inside I'll tell you this. Okay, let's just well. Okay, I'm gonna say a sentence and then I will dissect it. So we always get a real tree, because my husband wants a real tree and we don't have high ceilings because we have a 1960s house, so six footer, whatever home depot, yada, yada.
Speaker 2:I know I don't go to a farm.
Speaker 1:Whatever, I just fluff it out. Does that look good? Probably we're gonna have to hide three-fourths of it anyway, and just be dead in three weeks yeah, it doesn't matter you're you're buying a dead tree anyway. Last we chopped this down. Do you want to pay us for it? Yeah, how much is it? Um? First year last year that we chopped this down. Do you want to pay us for it? Yeah, how much is it? First year last year that we?
Speaker 2:didn't have colored lights.
Speaker 1:And I'm team colored lights.
Speaker 2:I'm team colored lights.
Speaker 1:But I got to say I just wanted to have white lights one year.
Speaker 2:How was it?
Speaker 1:It was nice.
Speaker 2:Was it more peaceful.
Speaker 1:My daughter came in, she was like, oh, this is pretty.
Speaker 2:This looks fancy.
Speaker 1:It felt grown up. I felt a little bit grown up, I'm 51, but I felt grown up.
Speaker 2:We always had colored lights.
Speaker 1:I know, and it is fun I'm not saying I have a little no, that doesn't have colored lights. I have another tiny tree that I put on the hearth because we have this really long hearth in front of our fireplace and there's nothing down there like the other ones in our living room where we do presents or whatever, but that one also has white lights because it was already pre-lit. We're artificial with our tree.
Speaker 2:But what I do like is you just hit the little clicker and then it's white lights, and then you just change it clicker and then it's white lights, or colored lights and then you just change it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're all like that now I think oh.
Speaker 2:So you can have your night where you do colored lights.
Speaker 1:That's nice, are they colored LED?
Speaker 2:No, I think they're just standard.
Speaker 1:Standard. Yeah, I think kind of.
Speaker 2:Robin does like to decorate the inside because she worked at, I guess, a boutique in Auburn, like high school and college and around Christmas time. I don't know when they started decorating the inside of that store, but you used to walk in, Shout out Heartstrings. You used to walk in and you could barely move. There was just Stuff everywhere, Just everywhere you turned your elbow was like brushing up against a $25 glass ornament.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And they were all themed man, but yeah she got.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think most of our ornaments are from.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow. But she's gotten into the Nutcracker Okay.
Speaker 2:Like every year, we get the nutcracker.
Speaker 1:Okay, like every year we get a nutcracker or two. Okay, a nutcracker ornament.
Speaker 2:No, like a straight up nutcracker.
Speaker 1:Okay, jonah loves those. He collects them. They are cool, I know they are.
Speaker 2:But yeah, that's yeah. So now we got nutcrackers all over the place.
Speaker 1:Yeah, in CVS right now. Other news I walked in to get a prescription and I almost passed out because they have these. Well, they're lifelike if you're 5'2", these Santas that are standing up like when you walk in.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, like jump out at you.
Speaker 1:No, no, they don't even have to jump, you jump, but one, they had two of them. They've got the glasses. They're kind of plush, but I guess you just stand them up in your house to scare people. I don't know, it was kind of weird.
Speaker 2:It's like a realistic Santa. Yeah, uh-uh.
Speaker 1:A realistic petite Santa.
Speaker 2:No, yeah, I'm not I don't want anything like that in my house.
Speaker 1:No, because I'll get up and get a glass of water in the middle of the night and fall out. Yeah, I don't like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah so anyway, but trees, yeah. Well, I will say this, Sorry to go back to it. The people that go all out.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:So Braxton was telling me my oldest, uh, and he was like Dad, guess how many trees they have. I was like what do you mean so when they? Because? We decorate the tree and I'm like oh gosh, I got to get the tree down.
Speaker 1:Yeah, how many do they have? Seven.
Speaker 2:Higher.
Speaker 1:In their house, in the house.
Speaker 2:Twelve Eleven Close. But they're all. Here's the kicker. They're all themed. They have a Marvel tree, they have a star wars tree, they have a regular tree, they have a. He's a notre dame fan, so they have a like a sports tree.
Speaker 1:It's like all notre dame which, wow, that's pretty cool because you know what over time you can't use all of your ornaments that's right.
Speaker 2:That's what we struggle with, and um so many ornaments I sent uh robin a meme. It's uh steve, uh steve carellll when he's in the office and he's making that like oh gosh face.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:And he's like when a mom sees their kid put the ornament on the wrong branch. Oh no, Because what we do is we get the tree down. That's my job. Out of the attic, set the tree up, and then me and the boys decorate. We hang like three yeah one might be in the right spot. Sometimes she'll well, if we do it first.
Speaker 1:Sometimes she'll let them kind of stay yeah, work around those yeah but I got some like old ornaments yeah, me too like from my childhood and slowly but surely Robin would be like are we gonna going to put that one on? Yeah, that's why I got the small tree for the den, because that's where all those are, but yeah, yeah, because they're just older. Yeah, they have character, some are a little scary looking.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:Construction paper. Yeah, it's like a girl like that or like a popsicle stick dude. Or like no, he's made out of clothespins. And he's skiing.
Speaker 2:He's got googly eyes.
Speaker 1:Yep. Yeah, she's like um, it's kind of creepy. Let's put that in the basement.
Speaker 2:Let's put the one that looks nice in the front.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know, no, I get it.
Speaker 2:I hang one. I'm like all right, y'all have fun, I just walk out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm going to make some hot chocolate. Yeah, that makes sense, though, because people buy ornaments, they continue to buy ornaments.
Speaker 2:Every year.
Speaker 1:How many trees are you going to?
Speaker 2:I guess you're going to get more trees.
Speaker 1:I guess, so Uh-uh.
Speaker 2:Hey, put up a living. Are they artificial? Yeah, oh, they can't be real.
Speaker 1:You ain't gonna buy a living tree Every year, like how do they store it?
Speaker 2:They have like the stuff in the garage, like the hang down things, and then I think under their house too.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Or maybe they got a storage unit, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they probably do. That's impressive.
Speaker 2:That's a lot of trees.
Speaker 1:That's a lot of trees, yeah yeah, you can't do real trees with that.
Speaker 2:I mean, I guess you could.
Speaker 1:You could with like a flatbed trailer.
Speaker 2:But, yeah, I don't, yeah, I've never understood. We get the little things that smell like a pine tree.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that you put and we just hang them in the tree?
Speaker 2:Yeah, of course we just. I mean, I guess they kind of smell like a pine tree for about a week.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the pine needles. And you still see them when you're vacuuming in March. You're like, how did that stay there? You know what I mean. Or it's right up under the rug on the hardwood or something and you didn't see it. But that's a no, that's not going to budge.
Speaker 2:Where do you all put your tree?
Speaker 1:You know that living room when you walk in our house.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, In the corner. Are you team corner or are you team right in front of the window? I don't know why I say team Everything Window.
Speaker 1:But we used to put it in front of the window on the side. When you walked in it was in front of the window on the side. When you walked in it was in front of that window kind of between our couch. It's a small living room, it's an old house, but now we put it in front of that big window in the front because we moved our couch to the other side.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like Christmas story.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so people can see it so.
Speaker 2:I just remember. I don't guess, I guess sometimes we do. We used to ride around and look at Christmas lights. Oh yeah, A lot A lot Like it'd be December, like third.
Speaker 1:Yeah, y'all want to go ride around with the lights.
Speaker 2:Yes, we do, I've seen that house. Yeah, we did that a bunch.
Speaker 1:Yeah, do people? I mean I guess people do a little bit. It's just more like now. It's.
Speaker 2:Well, you do it now, but then they have all the I don't know you go to what are?
Speaker 1:what is it?
Speaker 2:the campgrounds or the Place where the music plays a little With the drive-thru and everything's got a scene Mm-hmm, and you do the big light tunnel at the end.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like back in the day, it was just people's houses, yeah.
Speaker 2:We've done those things a few times. Yeah, but you know Fun Well you know the guy around the corner from us.
Speaker 1:Oh, he's got like a whole he does his whole yard. He'll probably have it done by Thanksgiving, which is this is the week before, but yeah, he usually has it up by then or he's almost finished. He puts stuff on top of his house. I mean, this is a normal like 1960s ranch neighborhood and then his whole front yard is decorated with different some inflatables. But he's got the huge wooden sleigh. You can get up in the sleigh and take a picture, yeah, it.
Speaker 1:It is impressive. And then he has those little arches over his. But it's just one guy. He's got to be in his 70s.
Speaker 2:How is he doing that? He's 70 years old.
Speaker 1:I don't know, but he just starts. It takes him about a week to get it all up. He's got these little guides, these little metal things that are not high off the ground, that line it all. It's Wow, uh-uh. A waving at all. It's wow, yeah, a waving santa and stuff.
Speaker 2:It's crazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I put out three deer and two little, yeah, pigeons or whatever they are, and I'm like, yeah, I got a cramp man. Yeah, um, but yeah so. And then stockings. But it's hard because, like we have a fireplace, so I hang them in front of the fireplace, but then you can't turn the fire on I know, know, I mean you can't?
Speaker 2:We always got something hanging.
Speaker 1:I know yeah.
Speaker 2:Because we decorate, we always have something for the mantel.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like a little garland or something. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Whenever it's cold, I can't turn on. Yeah Well it's kind of like a fake fire anyway, but whatever, yeah, we have some. It's going to burst into flames right there.
Speaker 1:I know, but then the tree that you do Christmas under is not in the room with the stock Anyway yada, that's not lights, but whatever. No, do you decorate? Oh yeah, y'all decorate your mantel, all that stuff. Yeah, I was looking at Garland at Michael's the other day. I was like, do I want to do this or do I just want you know?
Speaker 2:what I mean, are you?
Speaker 1:talking about fake Mm-hmm. Put it in for your mantle.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I think we'd use the same until the lights go out.
Speaker 1:Well, like I said, a lot of ours needed to be refreshed. Like we had some garland, like the pre-lit garden garland I can't talk, it had been around a while.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, so, but that's what we ran into a wreath, oh yeah we had them and then like the half of them went out and then, like they were pre-lit but the lid didn't work yeah so then we're, like relitting yeah, the lid is out this ain't, and we had to put more lit on it. And then it doesn't match. No or something's kind of tweaky and it kind of cuts in and out.
Speaker 1:Can't be bothered with that, yeah, just put one on the door.
Speaker 2:No, but we got one on the door too, Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Man, that's a lot of wreaths. Wait, where's your other wreath? Oh, on the windows, yeah, yeah Same.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Mine are just little with a red bow. They're no fancy. I've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, seven, six and then, like one will fall off, you'll buy those 3M, like this is labeled for outdoor, you know low temperature Is that what you use. That's what I use the 3M thing, the hooks, the clear hooks on the windows and I've got one that's still been up there, but, like you, buy the special adhesive for indoor or outdoor. What do you use?
Speaker 1:You open the window and hang them through because you got ribbon. We ain't got no ribbon.
Speaker 2:Yeah, robin gets like a big red ribbon, but real flat, so you just open the window at the top, tie like a bow or not inside yeah, and then just close the window and then just it's locked in there.
Speaker 1:It's not going anywhere yeah, our windows are not as big, I might see it well, try it out, I'll try it. That 3m stuff, sometimes I'm like yeah, I know, and it is like it's about like batteries. You're like how much is it for eight hooks?
Speaker 2:And with that 3M stuff it'll either fall after 14 seconds or you're going to rip the paint off the wall.
Speaker 1:And the sheet rocks, Like when one sticks.
Speaker 2:Yeah right and you got to take it off. You're like, oh, you just pulled down on this.
Speaker 1:Oh, pulled down on this. Oh, and you're going to pop your hand like a rubber band. God, that hurts so bad.
Speaker 2:The worst is when you've got to take like five of them off or ten of them and you're like and you pop it on the first one, you're so gun shy on the rest of them. You're like, hey, y'all, come do this, get the kids to help. Just pull that down real. And you can't pull away from the wall.
Speaker 1:Uh-uh, that's going to be paint off. Yeah, sorry, diversion.
Speaker 2:They need like a little hand guard you put in between. Oh yeah, den pole, yeah, get on that Okay.
Speaker 1:What about miscellaneous Christmas decorations, so like for instance oh God, we got a Santa cookie jar. Oh yeah, I've seen this, and you would put cookies in it and then everybody forgets about them cookies. Not in my house. We have four Charlie Brown peanuts little like dessert size plates that I bought at Publix one year. I was like these are so cute. I love the peanuts. My husband loves Charles Schultz, whatever, but we use them year round because they're like a perfect like size size and I'm not storing four plates you know, what I mean.
Speaker 1:I'm not doing it.
Speaker 2:Christmas towels oh, we got christmas hand. Y'all got all. We got knickknacks for every. The bathroom will be. There'll be a little pine tree yeah, you know, and there'll be. There'll be something on the toilet that lights up. I don't know.
Speaker 1:You know it's like a yeah, I gotta say I love it like your. Your wife is like the decorating game is strong for the seasonal and I admire it and I covet a little bit yeah, my job is to bring out crates.
Speaker 2:Yeah, which I say the plastic crates that you put in your okay. So when we, when we bought crates, I was like oh, these are cheap, or whatever.
Speaker 1:First of all, don't buy the cheap ones? No, because they're going to dry right, because the top's going to break and you can't stack them.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm deep diving, so we get them and used to, we'd get one and we'd just yeah Xmas or whatever. Whatever we know right yeah no, but then you're going through stuff.
Speaker 1:Next thing you know it's kids clothes yeah, just by clear every time so you can see what so you can see what you ain't got a label nothing like wonder what's in there, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Let me move these seven on top yeah, right, let me break a finger.
Speaker 1:Yeah and yeah, that's what I do I bring the tree down?
Speaker 2:I almost break my neck every year because I come down the front steps and the boys are always like you need help, like no move. You know, do I move this stuff on the stairs? I'll step over it. Yeah, it'll be fine, it'll be fine, I'm not going to fall again. And then, yeah, I bring the tree down and then my job is just to bring crates and kind of unwrap robin wraps, everything, like we're moving, like everything's in, like bubble or paper, tissue paper yeah, I wrap certain breakable ornaments it's a lot of wrapping.
Speaker 1:As I've gotten older I'm a little bit like that's fine, you know what I mean. Like I mean, most of it is just fine, and there's a couple that are wrapped, that are like glass, like nice ornaments, but anyway, um, yeah, christmas smells. I love the good christmas candles I do like a christmas candle balsam.
Speaker 1:Some fur in there like christmas tree. Oh I love it. I can't get enough of the candles. I feel like an snl character right now, but I love the Christmas candles. Do you get into? Like, okay, I'm going to start buying hot chocolate or make hot chocolate mix. My kids are like it's Christmas, we need some hot chocolate.
Speaker 2:We did a bougie hot chocolate one time I think it was during maybe the end of COVID or something and like a lady would make it and she would have it cooler on her garage. It was like those chocolate hot chocolate bombs or whatever, oh yeah. So you get your.
Speaker 1:You bought it or you made the bombs? No, she made it. Oh, okay, you bought the bombs from her. As far as hot chocolate. Don't listen to this out of context, sorry. Some people thought it was the bomb.
Speaker 2:I was like it tastes like chocolate, but you put it in there and it all dissolves and there's marshmallows. There's different stuff.
Speaker 1:It's chocolate milk, I know.
Speaker 2:We used to do it. I don't know. Okay, maybe it's because I grew up.
Speaker 1:My hot chocolate was a carnation instant Pack it, pack, instant, pack it. That's what I mean when I say buy hot chocolate.
Speaker 2:And there wasn't no milk in it, we had hot water, that's what I do. I know we'd boil hot. No, I ain't doing. No water, no more.
Speaker 1:You don't do that.
Speaker 2:No, I do milk.
Speaker 1:That's what my kids do. Shoot, if I did milk, I'd be going to Costco every day for you know who?
Speaker 2:Hot chocolate I'm good for about one cup a year.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't drink it because the stuff has milk in it. Yeah, but the water.
Speaker 2:One is just like instant coffee with no caffeine. Shh, don't tell my child that, don't tell my child. Well, the milk one is not better yeah hot chocolate, no peppermints.
Speaker 1:Do you put candy canes on your tree?
Speaker 2:We used to. We used to get a little small tree, like a little two-foot, three-foot little tree upstairs. That way the boys could decorate it how they wanted, put crazy lights on it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Hang candy canes all over it, which now candy canes are not candy canes, they're like no, I want the Skittles candy cane.
Speaker 1:Oh, I know, I know. I know Because one of my people doesn't like mint.
Speaker 2:We found two boxes yesterday in a drawer. We're like, oh where I got candy canes. I know One, sweet tarts.
Speaker 1:Yeah, those are good. Those are good. I might get one of those in a minute.
Speaker 2:I need one of those right now. Yeah, when we grew up, we had the. Remember the icicles you just tossed onto the tree let's talk about that and they would just kind of it looks like the tree got a bad haircut or dye job or something, because it would be kind of stringy. It looked like the tree ran through a Mardi Gras parade.
Speaker 1:But I loved those when I was little. I was like these are the best thing ever. That's so cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Do you remember, remember popcorn Cool, yeah, do you remember Remember popcorn?
Speaker 2:Yes, we did that one year, the string popcorn.
Speaker 1:Yeah, did we do that one year. I guess, I think we must have. Take this giant needle. Yeah, thread it and try to thread a popcorn kernel. Can you imagine me doing that now? I would have eaten the whole. It would be nothing on it, it would just be a string. I love popcorn so much.
Speaker 2:It. It's a fishing tree.
Speaker 1:Y'all put some fishing line on it. So do you remember those ornaments? Maybe our great grandmother had them, but maybe our grandmother. They have like a little lamp thing looking at the bottom and they have this little beaker looking thing at the top and they kind of bubble and water and light Do you know what I'm saying? They're old school, they're super vintage and like some places sell them now.
Speaker 2:They don't sell that for so much right now, oh my gosh, I'm sure they're for sale right now.
Speaker 1:They're going to be on my Amazon feed in a minute because everybody's listening to me, but I would like some of those. Those are cool. Those were like futuristic back then, but I was always like fascinated by this.
Speaker 2:Snow globes.
Speaker 1:Snow globes. You know what's?
Speaker 2:weird about snow globes Is that they feel like it used to be like a Christmas thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And now it's like nah, just whatever, Just any globe Wedding globe.
Speaker 1:You got a gift shop Baby shower globe. Snow globe it's kind of weird, isn't?
Speaker 2:it yeah, it should only be, yeah it should.
Speaker 1:That's it, honestly, you just need to be snowman.
Speaker 2:It's a snow globe. You shake it up, was it? Oh, look Detroit, yeah.
Speaker 1:Exactly New York. Where did you get this? Next to the hot pack stand.
Speaker 2:Look, it's snowing yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, because you shook it. Be careful with that and throw security. But like I'm trying to think, so you know, christmas apparel.
Speaker 2:Oh, we got a whole Speaking of.
Speaker 1:Clear toes. Y'all got pajamas.
Speaker 2:Y'all got matching pajamas. We've done matching pajamas A couple times Okay. I'm not doing that, no more, I just here's the thing I'm only gonna wear it one day, and this happens every time.
Speaker 1:With.
Speaker 2:Christmas pajamas. The pants perfect, fit, perfect. The shirt is always awkwardly sized and kind of tight.
Speaker 1:And you're like is this the back? Do I have it on backwards?
Speaker 2:It always fits weird.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I guess that's because you got it on Amazon for $4.
Speaker 1:Probably yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh, we have a whole tub.
Speaker 1:We got like a buddy, the elf onesie, like a oh, wow yeah, robin gets a christmas sweaters yeah, yeah, we got some ugly christmas sweaters also. There's cute like christmas sweatshirts.
Speaker 2:I know it sounds like you know yeah very uh, whatever, but um the perfect man and it's like a gingerbread man or something like that. I think Robin is.
Speaker 1:The little hats that have the little Old fashioned Christmas lights. But you hit the button and it lights up and blinks. I'm totally going on a walk In my neighborhood With one of those. Are you kidding? I'll rock that so hard.
Speaker 2:I'm telling you right now If something lights up, I will buy it.
Speaker 1:I know that you will. I do not care if it lights up, I know that you will Fair game. We love lights.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I saw I was at the mall and I walked by. They still have Spencer gifts, by the way. That's insane.
Speaker 1:I think that needs to be outlawed. You should have an ID to even walk in there, I think it's illegal in 49 states yes, just not Tennessee.
Speaker 2:And I walked by, but they did did.
Speaker 1:They had christmas ugly, christmas sweaters, but all of them lit up oh wow, like they had lights all over them and I was like yeah that's gonna need a christmas sweater yeah, or the headbands with the with the deer antler, like my sister we got those we'll totally rock those remember at like christmas. Like I miss like not being with them at christmas sometimes because she and her husband will both have on ugly sweaters yeah for and I'm like I love it so much. Yeah, it's just fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean you know, let's do it. You shouldn't have to wear that while you decorate the outside of your house. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I will say one of the best decoration ideas I've seen is just somebody hangs some lights just on one, gutter, yeah. And then they have like a mannequin, like hanging. Somebody called the cops because they thought it was a real person.
Speaker 1:Oh, I've heard that, but he's dressed up like Clark Griswold.
Speaker 2:And he's hanging from the gutter and the ladder is like that's the best, which is genius because you don't really have to decorate, but it's hilarious the best, which is that's genius because you don't really have to decorate, but it's hilarious.
Speaker 1:Have you seen the thing where people with the huge giant skeleton leaves it up and turns it around towards the house and puts christmas lights in one of its hands and same kind of thing part of the gutter, so it looks like I'm like that's two for one right there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's nasa thinking, you know like you're ahead of the game yeah, yeah, but, um, but, man see, I'm getting a little jumpy because I'm like Target's going to be out of the warm white. I always doesn't matter which lights we put on the trees, Randall will be like this strings out.
Speaker 2:Every year. That's why.
Speaker 1:And then you go, but then the other ones are a little bit different than the ones you had, so you're like I guess I'll buy eight boxes.
Speaker 2:Well, there's different warm ones, and then you get home and you're like oh, there's only 50 on a strand.
Speaker 1:I thought it was 300. And it's too much math.
Speaker 2:You had that one in your hand and you sat it down.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Because you're like these are cheaper.
Speaker 2:Well, it's cheaper because there ain't nothing on it, yeah.
Speaker 1:Here. Here's the math. Only math you need is keep the receipt. That's the math you need when you're making those purchases, because you're going back with lights.
Speaker 2:This is why I don't do real trees.
Speaker 1:There's multiple reasons, yeah.
Speaker 2:I do not put lights on things.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:When I put lights on something, they stay on there forever.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So I'm all about like putting lights up, boom, change your colors, turn them off, turn them on. That's half the reason I cut down all our bushes. We had bushes all around our house.
Speaker 1:And you're like, I'm not lighting that up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think I've removed 31 bushes. Wow, all of them gone. I was like I ain't getting out of here. No, first of all, I ain't trimming them. That's the main thing.
Speaker 1:But then you got to do the lights and is it netted lighting?
Speaker 2:Is it this lighting and then nets? Yeah, that gets tangled too.
Speaker 1:You're like tossing it like a cast net, like you're in the ocean somewhere.
Speaker 2:And don't do it. Well, I used to do that in the daytime like an idiot and then at night I'd be like oh.
Speaker 1:That is jacked up.
Speaker 2:That doesn't look right, yeah, man, that's off and I'm OCD, so I'm like left side's fine, oh yeah, and then you're out there in the dark.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:That's what we do. Robin goes out in the middle of the yard, looks at the wreaths and just up or down, left or right.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, yeah, I, yeah. I stand there while Randall's on the ladder.
Speaker 2:Do you hold the ladder or do you just watch him fall?
Speaker 1:I'll pop back and make sure and then I'll run back over, but it's a tall ladder. Yeah, yeah, it's probably. Do you put something on?
Speaker 2:your mailbox, I think Robin puts Yours is brick, right, she does a bow, a bow, just like a bow.
Speaker 1:We need a new mailbox, so I'm not decorating it. A bow, just like a bow. We need a new mailbox, so I'm not decorating it. It looks too bad.
Speaker 2:We don't need to draw attention to that, you should just sell them that say like a Santa's North Pole mailbox. Oh, I know.
Speaker 1:Oh man, yeah, there's people, I'm sure that do that. I guess, yeah, but anyway I got to go get decorating.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and more extension cords. You can never have enough extension cords. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1:Okay, timers. Last thing timers.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:Well, you got everything locked and loaded, don't you? On timers, you're way more technical Outside.
Speaker 2:we just have the outdoor outlets and they're just connected to like one switch in the house.
Speaker 1:So if you turn the lights on everything outside will come on but inside.
Speaker 2:But then you have timers for like you know the little wreath, the wireless that you put over this, or the little? Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1:They're supposed to be six hours I know dusk till so and so all that kind of stuff and then. But then you get off or then you unplug it and we have the real tree. You gotta water it.
Speaker 2:You gotta water it first of all. Don't cut it down. Yeah, that drives me nuts. We're watering a dead tree.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like you ripped off a piece of plant and they're like, hey, make this look pretty with a bunch of lights, stick it in a pot and then but keep it alive I wonder if the tree's gonna die.
Speaker 2:You're just you're just keeping it from drying out, that's all yeah it's, it's weird it is weird and then it drops needles all over the place. Oh, you have that.
Speaker 1:Well, I do have it every year for a few months because they just in the vacuum. Oh yeah, it's like vacuuming a pond straw basically, basically, that makes your house smell kind of good, because you're like, oh, now I can smell it. It's making the vacuum. It's like, instead of vacuum deodorizer, it's pond needles.
Speaker 2:I guess yeah, Anyway.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right. Get vacuum before your tree dies. Don't get me started.
Speaker 2:Be careful on the ladder.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Hold the ladder, yeah, or just watch somebody else do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, All right. Happy decorating guys.
Speaker 2:Yeah, have a good one.
