Does anyone decorate their house for Thanksgiving?

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I put up little, wooden pilgrims and a turkey on my front lawn, but everyone else on my block just puts up Christmas decorations in November. Does anyone actually care to put up Thanksgiving decorations?

Nothing here. We usually go to a relative's house for dinner, so decorating around here is pointless.

There are few houses already with T-Day decorations, and they look quite nice.

Nothing Thanksgiving specific. Just seasonal fall decorations. I change my wreaths outside and in the foyer every season, and my candles and tablecloth, napkins, mantle decoration etc. I have some orange halloween lights strung through some brooms over the mantle that I leave up until mid December when I start decorating for winter and Christmas. I leave them up because orange is a fall color. I also have some bowls and knick knacks that are seasonal that I swap out every year.

I keep it more "harvest" than "turkey and pilgrims". It's more of a harvest feast anyway isn't it?

Nope. I never knew such thing existed except for the holiday. Then right after the day ends, Christmas stuff goes up.

I actually really like the sound of that. Thanksgiving doesn't specifically have to have pilgrims and turkeys, but can just be about Autumn itself.

Lots of inflatable stuff now around our neighborhood.

It'll get as commercial as everything else. I remember seeing my neighbor put out orange and black halloween lights, and boxes and boxes of halloween stuff thinking 'this is turning into Christmas...' It won't be long before they put out Christmas-type lights in halloween colors, and that takes off.

It will eventually turn into people taking down New Years' lights for Valentine's day lights, then they come down to put up their green St. Patrick's Day lights. Those last for a week or so until it's time for your Easter lights. Those will stay up until Memorial Day lights go up, which will run until it's time for the 4th of July lights to come out of the garage... and so on...

I put turkeys everywhere but only because they are so hilariously awkward. I would like to have Quakers rounding up suspected witches, but I may not get to make them and set the up in time this year.

Was it Quakers who did that? Were Quakers Puritans?

I saw a wild turkey up a tree in the early-morning dark out in the country one time and it scared the cr@p out of me. I'm a city kid.

Nope, no Thanksgiving decorations.

Yes, Thanksgiving decorations go up a few days after Halloween, which I find really annoying.

I myself would rather wait a least one week after Halloween to decorate the house for Thanksgiving.

For some reason that reminded me of some Halloween yard decorations I saw in front of this little shotgun house a few years ago. You know those plastic garbage bag things that are orange and have pumpkin faces on them, that you are supposed to fill with newspaper or something and put in your yard? These folks used them as garbage bags and had several out there in their front yard, sitting as decorations, with garbage in them. Know how I know? They also had dogs.

There's no such thing in Sweden

Not exactly, but the whole purpose was to turn history on its head. In reality the Puritans were more strict and even persecuted the quakers. The witches were going to be prominant Puritan figures responsible for persecution (you can only be pacifist for so long). Usually my decor revolves around screwing with history in a newspaper comic sort of way or adding some macabre twist to a well-known story (Zombie Rushmore, Saint Nicky (Nicky being a nickname for Shaytaan) and my "kalimaaaaaa" Saint Valentine).

So you'd have Quakers rounding up Puritans? Or themselves? Now that I think of it, I think the witch in the pointy hat image may have come from persecution of Quakers, many of whom were Welsh, and the Welsh "national costume" includes an almost pointy hat.

Yes, Usually I just dry out maple leaves I find outside and decorate my house with them.

My mom bought fake ones this year, so I put them on my fireplace.

Quakers rounding up Puritans. As for the pointy hats, I often wondered if it was not another attempt to demonize the Jews for being "heretics." It seems that throughout history, every misfortune that befell Europeans was blamed on the Jews - even the Black Death (which may have been Yersinia Pestis, though some in contemporary science disagree) was blamed on them. Add to that the fact that most witches are portrayed with large, pointed noses... If it was just the pointy hats, I could have argued that many cultures had such garments, many of which were pagan.