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  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

    Tomorrow is Twelfth Night, and traditionally Christmas decorations should be removed before midnight. And since Herself is off duty tomorrow I will take them down today. I told her it's so "it doesn't disturb her valuable day off" (which will involve remaining in pyjamas till noon, shouting at the TV, and snoring, probably) but it's really because we are different people. I will take them down carefully, rolling strings of beads, card holders, sparkly stuff, lights, etc. around cardboard tubes before putting them in boxes. She will pull them down as quickly as possible and throw them in a box. My way, I get an easy life next December because I can just unroll stuff and up it goes. Her way, it will be one huge knot which will have acquired a life of it's own and actively resist unravelling. So ... which type are you? "Plan ahead" or "Rush through"? I think I can guess for some of you, but it would be interesting to see. :laugh:

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    I don't have any decorations, no tree no nothing. Yeah, I'm "that" kind of person.

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      I'm OCD, so I cannot rush through. It is literally impossible for me. :laugh:

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      I'm CDO.The letters are arranged in alphabetical order, as they should be! (And I see nothing funny about it, either)

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        I don't have any decorations, no tree no nothing. Yeah, I'm "that" kind of person.

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        Daniel Pfeffer
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        A Grinch? :)

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        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

          Tomorrow is Twelfth Night, and traditionally Christmas decorations should be removed before midnight. And since Herself is off duty tomorrow I will take them down today. I told her it's so "it doesn't disturb her valuable day off" (which will involve remaining in pyjamas till noon, shouting at the TV, and snoring, probably) but it's really because we are different people. I will take them down carefully, rolling strings of beads, card holders, sparkly stuff, lights, etc. around cardboard tubes before putting them in boxes. She will pull them down as quickly as possible and throw them in a box. My way, I get an easy life next December because I can just unroll stuff and up it goes. Her way, it will be one huge knot which will have acquired a life of it's own and actively resist unravelling. So ... which type are you? "Plan ahead" or "Rush through"? I think I can guess for some of you, but it would be interesting to see. :laugh:

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          All decorations were taken down and carefully packed away on New Years day.

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          • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

            Tomorrow is Twelfth Night, and traditionally Christmas decorations should be removed before midnight. And since Herself is off duty tomorrow I will take them down today. I told her it's so "it doesn't disturb her valuable day off" (which will involve remaining in pyjamas till noon, shouting at the TV, and snoring, probably) but it's really because we are different people. I will take them down carefully, rolling strings of beads, card holders, sparkly stuff, lights, etc. around cardboard tubes before putting them in boxes. She will pull them down as quickly as possible and throw them in a box. My way, I get an easy life next December because I can just unroll stuff and up it goes. Her way, it will be one huge knot which will have acquired a life of it's own and actively resist unravelling. So ... which type are you? "Plan ahead" or "Rush through"? I think I can guess for some of you, but it would be interesting to see. :laugh:

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            Jorgen Andersson
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            I'm plan ahead and my wife is rush through. Which usually means that when I have a plan it's already rushed through. Which in turn means I'm sitting in an "orderly" house where noone can find anything, and I'm just bugger all about everything.

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            • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

              Tomorrow is Twelfth Night, and traditionally Christmas decorations should be removed before midnight. And since Herself is off duty tomorrow I will take them down today. I told her it's so "it doesn't disturb her valuable day off" (which will involve remaining in pyjamas till noon, shouting at the TV, and snoring, probably) but it's really because we are different people. I will take them down carefully, rolling strings of beads, card holders, sparkly stuff, lights, etc. around cardboard tubes before putting them in boxes. She will pull them down as quickly as possible and throw them in a box. My way, I get an easy life next December because I can just unroll stuff and up it goes. Her way, it will be one huge knot which will have acquired a life of it's own and actively resist unravelling. So ... which type are you? "Plan ahead" or "Rush through"? I think I can guess for some of you, but it would be interesting to see. :laugh:

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              DeathByChocolate
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              I'm the kind of person who makes little 'cardboard carriers' to wrap the lights around and prevent tangles ... :-O

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                I'm the kind of person who makes little 'cardboard carriers' to wrap the lights around and prevent tangles ... :-O

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                Kitchen roll tubes: make a cut about 2 ~ 5 cm long at one end, and use it to hold one end of the stringy stuff. Wind it on, then Sellotape the other end in place. :thumbsup:

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                • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                  Tomorrow is Twelfth Night, and traditionally Christmas decorations should be removed before midnight. And since Herself is off duty tomorrow I will take them down today. I told her it's so "it doesn't disturb her valuable day off" (which will involve remaining in pyjamas till noon, shouting at the TV, and snoring, probably) but it's really because we are different people. I will take them down carefully, rolling strings of beads, card holders, sparkly stuff, lights, etc. around cardboard tubes before putting them in boxes. She will pull them down as quickly as possible and throw them in a box. My way, I get an easy life next December because I can just unroll stuff and up it goes. Her way, it will be one huge knot which will have acquired a life of it's own and actively resist unravelling. So ... which type are you? "Plan ahead" or "Rush through"? I think I can guess for some of you, but it would be interesting to see. :laugh:

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                  I was thinking of keeping it till Jan end to get a bit more of that Christmas feel ? why rush it ? (this should not be interpreted as laziness)

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                  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                    Tomorrow is Twelfth Night, and traditionally Christmas decorations should be removed before midnight. And since Herself is off duty tomorrow I will take them down today. I told her it's so "it doesn't disturb her valuable day off" (which will involve remaining in pyjamas till noon, shouting at the TV, and snoring, probably) but it's really because we are different people. I will take them down carefully, rolling strings of beads, card holders, sparkly stuff, lights, etc. around cardboard tubes before putting them in boxes. She will pull them down as quickly as possible and throw them in a box. My way, I get an easy life next December because I can just unroll stuff and up it goes. Her way, it will be one huge knot which will have acquired a life of it's own and actively resist unravelling. So ... which type are you? "Plan ahead" or "Rush through"? I think I can guess for some of you, but it would be interesting to see. :laugh:

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                    Slacker007
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                    Plan ahead, always. Surprisingly enough, my wife is the same way. :thumbsup: Christmas stuff usually gets taken down within the first 2 weeks of January. Christmas tree pickup (special garbage collection) is the entire month of January.

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                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                      Kitchen roll tubes: make a cut about 2 ~ 5 cm long at one end, and use it to hold one end of the stringy stuff. Wind it on, then Sellotape the other end in place. :thumbsup:

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                      It's not just me then! :-D

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                      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                        Tomorrow is Twelfth Night, and traditionally Christmas decorations should be removed before midnight. And since Herself is off duty tomorrow I will take them down today. I told her it's so "it doesn't disturb her valuable day off" (which will involve remaining in pyjamas till noon, shouting at the TV, and snoring, probably) but it's really because we are different people. I will take them down carefully, rolling strings of beads, card holders, sparkly stuff, lights, etc. around cardboard tubes before putting them in boxes. She will pull them down as quickly as possible and throw them in a box. My way, I get an easy life next December because I can just unroll stuff and up it goes. Her way, it will be one huge knot which will have acquired a life of it's own and actively resist unravelling. So ... which type are you? "Plan ahead" or "Rush through"? I think I can guess for some of you, but it would be interesting to see. :laugh:

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                        I am neither, I procrastinate forever. Then I rush and break stuff. :sigh:

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                        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                          Tomorrow is Twelfth Night, and traditionally Christmas decorations should be removed before midnight. And since Herself is off duty tomorrow I will take them down today. I told her it's so "it doesn't disturb her valuable day off" (which will involve remaining in pyjamas till noon, shouting at the TV, and snoring, probably) but it's really because we are different people. I will take them down carefully, rolling strings of beads, card holders, sparkly stuff, lights, etc. around cardboard tubes before putting them in boxes. She will pull them down as quickly as possible and throw them in a box. My way, I get an easy life next December because I can just unroll stuff and up it goes. Her way, it will be one huge knot which will have acquired a life of it's own and actively resist unravelling. So ... which type are you? "Plan ahead" or "Rush through"? I think I can guess for some of you, but it would be interesting to see. :laugh:

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                          Marc Clifton
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                          OriginalGriff wrote:

                          So ... which type are you? "Plan ahead" or "Rush through"?

                          I'm a "plan to rush" kind of person.

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                          • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                            Tomorrow is Twelfth Night, and traditionally Christmas decorations should be removed before midnight. And since Herself is off duty tomorrow I will take them down today. I told her it's so "it doesn't disturb her valuable day off" (which will involve remaining in pyjamas till noon, shouting at the TV, and snoring, probably) but it's really because we are different people. I will take them down carefully, rolling strings of beads, card holders, sparkly stuff, lights, etc. around cardboard tubes before putting them in boxes. She will pull them down as quickly as possible and throw them in a box. My way, I get an easy life next December because I can just unroll stuff and up it goes. Her way, it will be one huge knot which will have acquired a life of it's own and actively resist unravelling. So ... which type are you? "Plan ahead" or "Rush through"? I think I can guess for some of you, but it would be interesting to see. :laugh:

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                            CodeWraith
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                            I jst took the whole (small and artificial) christmas tree and stuffed it into its box until next year. Lights, ornaments and 3D printed Death Star tip still on it.

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                            • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                              Tomorrow is Twelfth Night, and traditionally Christmas decorations should be removed before midnight. And since Herself is off duty tomorrow I will take them down today. I told her it's so "it doesn't disturb her valuable day off" (which will involve remaining in pyjamas till noon, shouting at the TV, and snoring, probably) but it's really because we are different people. I will take them down carefully, rolling strings of beads, card holders, sparkly stuff, lights, etc. around cardboard tubes before putting them in boxes. She will pull them down as quickly as possible and throw them in a box. My way, I get an easy life next December because I can just unroll stuff and up it goes. Her way, it will be one huge knot which will have acquired a life of it's own and actively resist unravelling. So ... which type are you? "Plan ahead" or "Rush through"? I think I can guess for some of you, but it would be interesting to see. :laugh:

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                              First point - I plan ahead by nature - it is, to put it mildly, very under-appreciated by nearly everyone (except my IT Director). For example, what's wrong with allowing more than twenty minutes for a twenty minute trip? If I had such decorations, I'd think ahead when the time came to install them, planning fully for the reversion to their stored state . . . and just leave them in their boxes. But - and how many of you are victims of this: If Mrs. Wife wants something put away and I don't do it until the time is right, she may well do it for me. Then, when I ask her where it is, she will tell me with absolute certainty, the wrong place at least a few times. By accident or design? I don't have the b@lls to ask.

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                                First point - I plan ahead by nature - it is, to put it mildly, very under-appreciated by nearly everyone (except my IT Director). For example, what's wrong with allowing more than twenty minutes for a twenty minute trip? If I had such decorations, I'd think ahead when the time came to install them, planning fully for the reversion to their stored state . . . and just leave them in their boxes. But - and how many of you are victims of this: If Mrs. Wife wants something put away and I don't do it until the time is right, she may well do it for me. Then, when I ask her where it is, she will tell me with absolute certainty, the wrong place at least a few times. By accident or design? I don't have the b@lls to ask.

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                                W∴ Balboos wrote:

                                By accident or design? I don't have the b@lls to ask.

                                :laugh:

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                                  First point - I plan ahead by nature - it is, to put it mildly, very under-appreciated by nearly everyone (except my IT Director). For example, what's wrong with allowing more than twenty minutes for a twenty minute trip? If I had such decorations, I'd think ahead when the time came to install them, planning fully for the reversion to their stored state . . . and just leave them in their boxes. But - and how many of you are victims of this: If Mrs. Wife wants something put away and I don't do it until the time is right, she may well do it for me. Then, when I ask her where it is, she will tell me with absolute certainty, the wrong place at least a few times. By accident or design? I don't have the b@lls to ask.

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                                  "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                                  W∴ Balboos wrote:

                                  ... when I ask her where it is, she will tell me ...

                                  All I get is "well I don't know what you've done with it". :sigh:

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                                    Nope! How to coil a rope - YouTube[^] Not if you do it properly. :)

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                                    Right with the basic principles, but waaay too short a tail to actually hitch the rope for storage. (And a gasket hitch is really only sensible when the end is fixed to something.)

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                                      Right with the basic principles, but waaay too short a tail to actually hitch the rope for storage. (And a gasket hitch is really only sensible when the end is fixed to something.)

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                                      A true pedant! :)

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                                      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                        Tomorrow is Twelfth Night, and traditionally Christmas decorations should be removed before midnight. And since Herself is off duty tomorrow I will take them down today. I told her it's so "it doesn't disturb her valuable day off" (which will involve remaining in pyjamas till noon, shouting at the TV, and snoring, probably) but it's really because we are different people. I will take them down carefully, rolling strings of beads, card holders, sparkly stuff, lights, etc. around cardboard tubes before putting them in boxes. She will pull them down as quickly as possible and throw them in a box. My way, I get an easy life next December because I can just unroll stuff and up it goes. Her way, it will be one huge knot which will have acquired a life of it's own and actively resist unravelling. So ... which type are you? "Plan ahead" or "Rush through"? I think I can guess for some of you, but it would be interesting to see. :laugh:

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                                        Rush through.

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                                        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                          Tomorrow is Twelfth Night, and traditionally Christmas decorations should be removed before midnight. And since Herself is off duty tomorrow I will take them down today. I told her it's so "it doesn't disturb her valuable day off" (which will involve remaining in pyjamas till noon, shouting at the TV, and snoring, probably) but it's really because we are different people. I will take them down carefully, rolling strings of beads, card holders, sparkly stuff, lights, etc. around cardboard tubes before putting them in boxes. She will pull them down as quickly as possible and throw them in a box. My way, I get an easy life next December because I can just unroll stuff and up it goes. Her way, it will be one huge knot which will have acquired a life of it's own and actively resist unravelling. So ... which type are you? "Plan ahead" or "Rush through"? I think I can guess for some of you, but it would be interesting to see. :laugh:

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                                          Plan ahead. In my house, Mrs. Wife comments on how there aren't enough lights here or too much tinsel there while I put up the tree. I also take down the tree, carefully putting ornaments back in their original boxes, each string of lights and tinsel in its own bag. There's a system to it, carefully arrived at after 30+ years of the holidays.

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