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1. fan of pd
   Member

   anyone have any cute ideas?

   Posted 2 years ago #

2. Be Happy
   Member

   I usually decorate my house with balloons. I bought a huge 5ft. clown which I put up.
   Have you seen the helium walker balloons? They are great fun.

   Posted 2 years ago #

3. tzippi
   Member

   Isn't the minhag Yisrael that it has to do with the mishloach manos and costume themes?

   Unless you're kofer b'ikar, in which case you can just use whatever your kids made in school.

   I'm sorry, I don't mean to downplay the fun and creativity, as long as IT is fun for you, inexpensive, and not at all stressful.

   Posted 2 years ago #

4. rescue37
   Member

   sounds goyish to me

   Posted 2 years ago #

5. Ben Levi
   Member

   Not sure if its a real yekkish minhag or just something my family does, but we decorate cookies like Haman and his ten sons and hang them from the chandelier.
   Mrs. Ben Levi

   Posted 2 years ago #

6. aries2756
   Smartness runs in my family.

   When my kids were young, my youngest was 7 we had just moved and were in middle of redoing our home. Our floor was covered with paper and my 7 year old drew pictures of haman all over the floor and insisted that everyone stamp their their feet all over his pictures to symbolize "stamping out Haman in our generation!".

   Posted 2 years ago #

7. jphone
   Member

   My in-laws decorate their house with plastic table cloths covering all furniture and carpet, so when the inevitable happens, the furniture and carpet doesnt get ruined.

   Posted 2 years ago #

8. aries2756
   Smartness runs in my family.

   jphone, that's called thinking ahead or maybe, thinking with your head!!

   Posted 2 years ago #

9. fan of pd
   Member

   any other ideas?

   Posted 2 years ago #

10. jphone
    Member

    How about a tree, with colorful lights.

    Posted 2 years ago #

11. tomim tihye
    Member

    Mrs. Ben Levi- You're a yekke with a chandelier?! Oh well, at least you keep that important Haman cookie minhag. Yeah, my yekkishe ancestors did it too, only with challah, and since there was nothing to hang it from, they gave Haman death by the sword.
    (Then they asked the sha'aloh: "Do we need to kasher our challah knife?"
    They were told that since they didn't display derech eretz to a human being and killed him, they don't need to worry about Torah laws either.
    Then WWII broke out, and all those "human beings" around them showed themselves to be animals, so they realized that Haman probably fell into the same category. Since then, we've been kashering our knife after the shechita each year.)

    Posted 2 years ago #

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