So, which kind of person are you?
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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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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, 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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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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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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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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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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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 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.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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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.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"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
W∴ Balboos wrote:
By accident or design? I don't have the b@lls to ask.
:laugh:
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful" Chris C-B
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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.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"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
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. :)
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.)
Days spent at sea are not deducted from one's alloted span - Phoenician proverb
A true pedant! :)
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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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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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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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I'm from Minnesota and largely a plan a-header with a plan b or c at the ready. I found My dear wife of 32 years on a Southerm California beach and finds planning to make the way straighter an affront to all that is cool. She's 56 and a fox still with 30 somethings hitting on her so yeah. I roll with it. :-D
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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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Were it up to me, they wouldn't be up at all. What goes up most come down, why do that when the end result is not having anything up anyway? I do the minimum -- get the tree out of the garage, set it up, wait for her to position each needle precisely, then get dizzy by putting on the lights. After that, it's up to her. At some point, I get dizzy by removing the lights, box the stupid tree, and haul it right back out to the garage. "If you put it up, leave it up!" I say.
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I don't have any decorations, no tree no nothing. Yeah, I'm "that" kind of person.
Same here :) Never can be bothered to set up and definitely not spend money on it so...
Tom
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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 look around to see if someone else has worked out a solution and just use theirs.
cheers Chris Maunder
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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'm the wrap and roll type
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I'm from Minnesota and largely a plan a-header with a plan b or c at the ready. I found My dear wife of 32 years on a Southerm California beach and finds planning to make the way straighter an affront to all that is cool. She's 56 and a fox still with 30 somethings hitting on her so yeah. I roll with it. :-D
Huh, maybe we married the same woman...
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I look around to see if someone else has worked out a solution and just use theirs.
cheers Chris Maunder
