The Thanksgiving Day experience is over and now it’s full blast ahead for the upcoming holidays season.

While commercial decorations are usually designed to increase holiday sales, why are residential decorations so popular and profusely manifest?

Regardless of the type of or original causing history of these holidays or their social-economic status, many people go all out, and sometime overboard, when it comes to holiday residential decorations.

Why?

A very basic human behavior behavior.

The emotional over rules the intellectual.

And for most people, the joy, appreciation, anticipation, and experience of the holiday season is an emotional high regardless of it’s religious significance, tradition, abundance, et cetera, and a commonly liked and approved time of the year to let go of the complex and trying and necessary activities of our normal every day lives and go forth and celebrate a feeling and indulgence of pure joy.

Such is a good thing and is to be encouraged.

When it comes to holiday decorations, of which the Christmas tree is probability the most popular, the guide lines of intelligent and quality aesthetics go out the window.

Sentimental, traditional, cute, fun, personal, lights, adorable, quantity, et cetera guide lines are what is most often used.

Have you ever noticed that on many extremely well known prominent widely viewed national Christmas trees the history of the tree is given and when finished being decorated it is no longer seeable. You literally cannot see the tree for the lights.

From an aesthetic design point of view it may be wise to ask why being “traditional” is always the best route to take.

The best designs, aesthetically and intellectually, are the ones that best represent the time and place and purpose of their creation.

So. Enjoy the holiday season to the fullest in your own personal way even if for no other reason than to bring joy and light more universally for a brief fleeting moment in our current world.

Happy holidays!

Food for thought.