My only holiday crockery is a red coffee cup imprinted with the face of Buddy the Elf, and his holiday expletive, “Son of a nutcracker!” I don’t actually drink coffee from it, but it sits on the mantle for a couple of months.
16 ?!
Thus the title after my name 
I have a lot of friends who switch from regular china to Christmas-themed china in December. Some of them also switch the soap and stuff in the guest bathroom to display holiday-themed soap dishes. Etc. That’s what i took that poll to be asking about.
I am now envisioning a tree with 16 cats ensconced in its branches. There wouldn’t be much in the way of other decorations.
There wouldn’t need to be!
@Karen_Lingel has a flawed poll as it assumes everyone puts up something; there is no option for no decorations.
And i do put up a menorah, but it’s really not “for Christmas”.
I don’t have a furnace (i have a boiler, and the hot water doesn’t need to be filtered) but i do have a whole-house AC unit. I change the filter once a year, which is what the guy who installed it recommended. The filter doesn’t look very dirty or anything when i replace it. It probably helps that the intake is on a ceiling.
I have a furnace (as well as a wood stove); but the furnace has no filter. It’s an oil-fueled steam system. What it does have is a safety shutoff/automatic refill valve system which lets more water in when needed and shuts the system down if water pressure drops too low; and this needs to be flushed once in a while because it accumulates miscellanous dirt – mostly bits of rust from inside old pipes and radiators – which if not flushed for too long could clog it so that it doesn’t work. When it’s cold enough to run the furnace I flush the system about once a week. Just did so this morning.
Samesies.
Me also likewise too.
Same here, although we will be home on Christmas. But I’ve never seen the point of putting up a tree.
On the furnace issue, we have an annual maintenance plan and someone comes once a year to make sure everything’s working and change the filters. We also have some that are permanent, but need to be cleaned.
We have a pretty sizeable collection of Department 56 porcelain Christmas village buildings, figurines, etc., but we haven’t put those up as part of our holiday decorations since we got our current cats in 2019 – the ginger housepanthers are agile, inquisitive, and would undoubtedly wind up knocking things down (and possibly breaking them).
We have a set of holiday-themed china, and some other items (coffee mugs, platters, etc.); they get pulled out and used only during December.
We have a gas forced-air furnace and central air conditioning system, which does use a filter. Between cat hair and general dust, I try to change out the filter monthly (more or less); if it goes more than 2 months, the filter does get really clogged.
Huh, i have three cats, and i use the AC most of the summer, and turn on the house fan when i have a lot of company over (the filter is HEPA, i figure it helps reduce the viral load in the house) and the annual change really seems to be plenty. I see a little dust and fur, sometimes. It’s not nearly as dirty as the lawnmower filter when i change it, or my facemask after mowing the leaves on a dry dusty day. Both of those are visibly darker in places, and i can see the dust on the lawnmower filter.
I use the filters that get ultra fine particles. I’ve been told I only have to change them once every 3 months, and that I should change them every month. I have a reminder set so I change them once a month(mostly)
I have 4 cats. I buy HVAC filters by the case.
I have a reminder go off on the last Saturday of March, June, September, and December to remind me to change the air filters for our HVAC and refill the water softener salt.
I think I do- plates, glasses, etc with a Christmas or Winter theme. And we have some, but we do not often remember to put them out. Maybe/usually a couple.
Yep. We haven’t put up anything for years.
I used to have a Christmas themed platter I’d use for the turkey, but I haven’t done a turkey in a long time. So it lingers by the microwave.