Raise your hand if you look forward to putting away Christmas decorations. Raise your hand if your decorations fight you while going down. I didn’t think so. You know that disgusting commercial where food fights the person with the sensitive stomach, slapping his/her face with vengeance? That commercial plays in my mind as I try to put away my outside wreath and small tree today. Except instead of becoming horrified, as the actors do, my acid-free belly shakes like a bowl full of jelly. I feel so stupid laughing maniacally alone in the garage slipping a wreath into plastic bags as it lights up with stored solar power.
I pull myself together, stash the still lighted wreath on its shelf and return the small tree to its box. It, too, suddenly comes alive with piercingly bright LED lights. Last year I called these zombie lights, but they are way too much fun for that moniker. For turning my dark, cluttered space into a twinkling, garish, fun garage for a day each year, let’s call them Vegas. They don’t mean any harm – I don’t think. . .
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lol! Unless they’ve been taking lessons from Stephen King, I suspect they are mostly harmless.
Putting away the decorations is my least favorite part of the holiday season. Or end of the holiday season. This might be the first year I didn’t think about that at all while putting them up. It’s much nicer that way. 🙂
It’s really Stephen King-ish to open the door to a dark garage and see two glowing areas. LOL
I’ve been paring down to only decorations that bring me joy. That has helped a lot. Salvation Army is reaping the benefits. You get in a rut after a while and why put up things that just aggravate you? 🙂 At least that’s how I feel. I even put less on the tree, but still it looms, waiting for undressing. The final act of the season.
I dread it. My tree is still up. This year I keep thinking that if I had a small tree to leave up, I would leave it up all year. Anderson loves the lights on the tree and I hate to put it all away and have him come look for it only to have it gone. 😦
I think it is finally getting put away in a couple of days. Tonight I am taking all the ornaments off of it and then the tree will stay up until my daughter can come take it apart and carry the box out to store it. Too heavy for me!
I’m thinking of leaving out one string of lights and putting them up in the dining room so that the baby can see them any time he comes over! I’m such a sucker, aren’t I?
My son refuses to take his down. It has only lights (did have candy canes as only ornaments). He says it is a nice treat for the neighbors to look at. I was going to suggest he weave the lights through a filigree wicker divider he has. That would look fine all year. And no, you’re not a sucker, just a grandma. 🙂
if they could only heat your water…
How true! They are fascinating little buggers, though.
“Whattaya got in the bag, lady?”
“Vegas.”
Hmm. You could probably sell a lot that way.
Don’t give me ideas. 😉