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At last, Christmas is finally over

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  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

    It's Twelfth Night, so tradition requires Xmas decorations be banished from the house and stay away until late December. So the cards are down, the tree is packed away, the baubles are back in their box. Ah. Much nicer: I can go for a pee in the night with treating on half the baubles Dij has scattered all around. But it's the lights and strings I wanted to talk about: I use old kitchen roll tubes to wind these things around so that next time they are easy to access and haven't attempted to form a massive Gordian Knot Of Christmas when the time comes to put them back up. (I did try the "rip 'em down and throw the damn things in a box approach one year, but after contemplating the result the following December and considering wire cutters to get them apart I ended up buying fresh instead.) So are you a "tidy away" person, or a "chuck it and hope" type when it comes to these things? Or are you lucky enough to have an SO that does it all for you? :-D

    "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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    Slacker007
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    OriginalGriff wrote:

    So are you a "tidy away" person, or a "chuck it and hope" type

    The answer to this question tells more about a person than one would guess. I am a tidy person. I love organization. So, wrapping your lights and string, etc. around a paper towel tube or something similar is appropriate and should be encouraged.

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    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

      It's Twelfth Night, so tradition requires Xmas decorations be banished from the house and stay away until late December. So the cards are down, the tree is packed away, the baubles are back in their box. Ah. Much nicer: I can go for a pee in the night with treating on half the baubles Dij has scattered all around. But it's the lights and strings I wanted to talk about: I use old kitchen roll tubes to wind these things around so that next time they are easy to access and haven't attempted to form a massive Gordian Knot Of Christmas when the time comes to put them back up. (I did try the "rip 'em down and throw the damn things in a box approach one year, but after contemplating the result the following December and considering wire cutters to get them apart I ended up buying fresh instead.) So are you a "tidy away" person, or a "chuck it and hope" type when it comes to these things? Or are you lucky enough to have an SO that does it all for you? :-D

      "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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      obermd
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      In large parts of the US this Christmas won't be over until the spring thaws, when it's finally warm enough to remove the outdoor lights without breaking them.

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      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

        It's Twelfth Night, so tradition requires Xmas decorations be banished from the house and stay away until late December. So the cards are down, the tree is packed away, the baubles are back in their box. Ah. Much nicer: I can go for a pee in the night with treating on half the baubles Dij has scattered all around. But it's the lights and strings I wanted to talk about: I use old kitchen roll tubes to wind these things around so that next time they are easy to access and haven't attempted to form a massive Gordian Knot Of Christmas when the time comes to put them back up. (I did try the "rip 'em down and throw the damn things in a box approach one year, but after contemplating the result the following December and considering wire cutters to get them apart I ended up buying fresh instead.) So are you a "tidy away" person, or a "chuck it and hope" type when it comes to these things? Or are you lucky enough to have an SO that does it all for you? :-D

        "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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        theoldfool
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        Wrap them around card board. Put them and the needed extension cords together in the garage. Not allowed to touch the tabletop tree which is put away decorated. I do hold the door open. We mail our cards out only to people who sent us one last year. Trims our list, over the years it has gone from 3 sheets of labels to only one. Many friends have departed this life. Any who made it to heaven probably figure I didn't make it.

        >64 Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.

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        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

          It's Twelfth Night, so tradition requires Xmas decorations be banished from the house and stay away until late December. So the cards are down, the tree is packed away, the baubles are back in their box. Ah. Much nicer: I can go for a pee in the night with treating on half the baubles Dij has scattered all around. But it's the lights and strings I wanted to talk about: I use old kitchen roll tubes to wind these things around so that next time they are easy to access and haven't attempted to form a massive Gordian Knot Of Christmas when the time comes to put them back up. (I did try the "rip 'em down and throw the damn things in a box approach one year, but after contemplating the result the following December and considering wire cutters to get them apart I ended up buying fresh instead.) So are you a "tidy away" person, or a "chuck it and hope" type when it comes to these things? Or are you lucky enough to have an SO that does it all for you? :-D

          "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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          Slow Eddie
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          Christmas might be over, but twelfth night is the start of Mardi Gras here in New Orleans. We solved the Christmas tree dilemma with an artificial tree pre-strung with lights installed. Remove ornaments, and stuff the tree in the box it came in. However, it is the start of Mardi Gras and the Mardi Gras tree has to come out now, and I get to start all over again. :sigh:

          Ed

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          • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

            It's Twelfth Night, so tradition requires Xmas decorations be banished from the house and stay away until late December. So the cards are down, the tree is packed away, the baubles are back in their box. Ah. Much nicer: I can go for a pee in the night with treating on half the baubles Dij has scattered all around. But it's the lights and strings I wanted to talk about: I use old kitchen roll tubes to wind these things around so that next time they are easy to access and haven't attempted to form a massive Gordian Knot Of Christmas when the time comes to put them back up. (I did try the "rip 'em down and throw the damn things in a box approach one year, but after contemplating the result the following December and considering wire cutters to get them apart I ended up buying fresh instead.) So are you a "tidy away" person, or a "chuck it and hope" type when it comes to these things? Or are you lucky enough to have an SO that does it all for you? :-D

            "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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            dandy72
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            OriginalGriff wrote:

            So are you a "tidy away" person, or a "chuck it and hope" type when it comes to these things?

            Sadly, my proudest achievement when it comes to organizing physical things is to have come up with the idea of rolling individual Ethernet cables in those plastic blank CD spindles that have a lid you can screw back in place. And then, I found out I'm not the first to have come up with the idea... :sigh:

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              OriginalGriff wrote:

              So are you a "tidy away" person, or a "chuck it and hope" type when it comes to these things?

              Sadly, my proudest achievement when it comes to organizing physical things is to have come up with the idea of rolling individual Ethernet cables in those plastic blank CD spindles that have a lid you can screw back in place. And then, I found out I'm not the first to have come up with the idea... :sigh:

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              OriginalGriff
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              I'd never heard of it, or thought of it - but I really wish I hade before I pretty much gave up collecting CAT5 cables ... :-D Don't care who came up with it, it gets a thumbs up from me!

              "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

              "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
              "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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              • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                It's Twelfth Night, so tradition requires Xmas decorations be banished from the house and stay away until late December. So the cards are down, the tree is packed away, the baubles are back in their box. Ah. Much nicer: I can go for a pee in the night with treating on half the baubles Dij has scattered all around. But it's the lights and strings I wanted to talk about: I use old kitchen roll tubes to wind these things around so that next time they are easy to access and haven't attempted to form a massive Gordian Knot Of Christmas when the time comes to put them back up. (I did try the "rip 'em down and throw the damn things in a box approach one year, but after contemplating the result the following December and considering wire cutters to get them apart I ended up buying fresh instead.) So are you a "tidy away" person, or a "chuck it and hope" type when it comes to these things? Or are you lucky enough to have an SO that does it all for you? :-D

                "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                Mycroft Holmes
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                Bah Humbug - not even tree anymore

                Never underestimate the power of human stupidity - RAH I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP

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                • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                  It's Twelfth Night, so tradition requires Xmas decorations be banished from the house and stay away until late December. So the cards are down, the tree is packed away, the baubles are back in their box. Ah. Much nicer: I can go for a pee in the night with treating on half the baubles Dij has scattered all around. But it's the lights and strings I wanted to talk about: I use old kitchen roll tubes to wind these things around so that next time they are easy to access and haven't attempted to form a massive Gordian Knot Of Christmas when the time comes to put them back up. (I did try the "rip 'em down and throw the damn things in a box approach one year, but after contemplating the result the following December and considering wire cutters to get them apart I ended up buying fresh instead.) So are you a "tidy away" person, or a "chuck it and hope" type when it comes to these things? Or are you lucky enough to have an SO that does it all for you? :-D

                  "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                  jmaida
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                  I am like you. I learned tidy is mighty, chaos is not.

                  "A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger

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                  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                    It's Twelfth Night, so tradition requires Xmas decorations be banished from the house and stay away until late December. So the cards are down, the tree is packed away, the baubles are back in their box. Ah. Much nicer: I can go for a pee in the night with treating on half the baubles Dij has scattered all around. But it's the lights and strings I wanted to talk about: I use old kitchen roll tubes to wind these things around so that next time they are easy to access and haven't attempted to form a massive Gordian Knot Of Christmas when the time comes to put them back up. (I did try the "rip 'em down and throw the damn things in a box approach one year, but after contemplating the result the following December and considering wire cutters to get them apart I ended up buying fresh instead.) So are you a "tidy away" person, or a "chuck it and hope" type when it comes to these things? Or are you lucky enough to have an SO that does it all for you? :-D

                    "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                    Damien Hansen
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                    Being a "tidy away" person has always been part of my personality. I'm the type who likes to keep things neat and organized, and I find it much easier to focus when everything is in its place.

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                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                      It's Twelfth Night, so tradition requires Xmas decorations be banished from the house and stay away until late December. So the cards are down, the tree is packed away, the baubles are back in their box. Ah. Much nicer: I can go for a pee in the night with treating on half the baubles Dij has scattered all around. But it's the lights and strings I wanted to talk about: I use old kitchen roll tubes to wind these things around so that next time they are easy to access and haven't attempted to form a massive Gordian Knot Of Christmas when the time comes to put them back up. (I did try the "rip 'em down and throw the damn things in a box approach one year, but after contemplating the result the following December and considering wire cutters to get them apart I ended up buying fresh instead.) So are you a "tidy away" person, or a "chuck it and hope" type when it comes to these things? Or are you lucky enough to have an SO that does it all for you? :-D

                      "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                      englebart
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                      I use old paper boxes for storing strands of icicle lights. Start in the middle of the strand and lay them in the box. Ends go in last. Put a cardboard separator on top. Repeat until full. Next year, ends come out first. No problems with tangling for years.

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