Putting Away Christmas

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 01/04/2020 at 15:03 • Filed to: None

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I do love Christmas, with it’s decorations, downtime, and overindulgence. But there is also something cathartic about putting it all away, vacuuming up all the needles, and getting on with the new year. It kind of feels like starting out with a clean slate.

Now, I gotta get the lights off the house....

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > ttyymmnn 01/04/2020 at 15:24

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didnt have any decorations or a tree this year coz we spent xmas in england

to make up for that we’ll be decorating for and celebrating wintereenmas this year

Svend > ttyymmnn 01/04/2020 at 15:26

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This christmas I went into the loft and got out the ‘pre-lit’ christmas tree.

Step-father sets it up, etc... Finds the tree won’t light up.

I go to work and buy some cheap LED lights to stick on the tree, job done.

Cue the other day, after my step-father took down the tree. I say, ‘right, so we’ll put the lights to one side and take the tree to the dump!?’.

He asked why. I replied, ‘ what’s the point of humping a pre-lit tree that doesn’t work, back into the loft, when we can get a new one that does work next year! ?’ .

ttyymmnn > Svend 01/04/2020 at 16:05

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I’m still in the live (dead) tree camp. There is a local lot that we’ve been going to for years, we’ve gotten to know the people who work there, the kids run around between the trees. However, a decent sized tree there now is pushing $200 or more. This year, we got a tree from Costco. I got an 8-footer for $60 and it was a fine tree. No family tradition, as I went out by  myself one afternoon to get it on my own. Oh well, tradition isn’t that big a deal to my teenagers, though my wife assures me that they will appreciate it later.