What happens when a blogger starts noticing the snowmen. Is she right or just crazy? This is part two of The Snowman Conspiracy.
Those are so easy to collect aren’t they? My collection first started with a Christmas gift from our in-laws. It is the cutest door sign that is personalized with our name. It features three snow people, two adults and a child, a representation of our family at the time. We still cherish it and display it, even though our family has grown from three members to five.
After that, we just had to have some stuffed snow people to put out for the holidays. Three snowmen put out the call for more. My husband rationalized that we could keep them all around well into March, since they weren’t really “Christmas.” Years later, and we have more stuffed snow people, snowmen plaques, snowmen in ceramics, snowmen for the tree, snowmen for the mantle, snowmen made out of paper plates, snowmen candles and snowmen just hanging out around, doing nothing (at least while we are looking). The little things are multiplying like smurfs.
I have nothing against snowmen per se. I really do like decorating with them. They always seem so cheery, even in the cold weather. They remind us to have fun with what the season has brought to us. But I can’t help think that it is getting to be too much.
It seems to me that snowmen are showing up “out there” on everything from iced tea to kosher noodles, from gas stations to grocery stores. Could it be that snowmen are the iconic equivalent of saying “Happy Holidays?” A gentler, all encompassing, non-offensive way of greeting the season? I don’t know. You tell me.
Just last week, as I was putting my children’s trick-or-treat gear away in the attic, I came across the plastic buckets the kids used for collecting candy. There are two jack-o-lanterns and one friendly ghost who looks far too much like a snowman for it to be a coincidence.
Will you be decorating with snowmen this year?
Mary Ann Romans writes about everything related to saving money in the Frugal Blog, technology in the Computing Blog, and creating a home in the Home Blog. You can read more of her articles by clicking here.
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