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anyone have any cute ideas?
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.
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.
sounds goyish to me
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
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!”.
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.
jphone, that’s called thinking ahead or maybe, thinking with your head!!
How about a tree, with colorful lights.
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.)
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