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Procrastinating

I got rid of everything Christmas in my house on Dec 26, except the tree. It's fake and pre-lit, so it still looks like a perfect department store tree. It's so tedious taking all of the ornaments off and compacting the tree back into it's box... I have no motivation to do it, but I am getting sick of looking at it. I usually have it down by New Years!

Please tell me I'm not alone.

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Re: Procrastinating

  • We were actually really good this year and started taking stuff down NY weekend.  Most of the stuff is packed away and the tree is out on the sidewalk, but I just need to organize the storage bins a little better. So why are there still like four big storage bins littering my living room a week later?

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  • Usually I wait until after NYD to take stuff down. But with New Years on the weekend and having taken the week leading up to it off I started taking stuff down the middle of last week. We didn't take the tree down until Sunday though.

    Now if only the stupid holiday car commercials would go away...

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  • we just took our tree down on tuesday... mostly because we have to have it out for the trash tonight. and all the other decorations came down on monday. and we too still have the storage bins everywhere. i hate taking christmas down because now my house looks so empty and boring.
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  • Am I the only one with everything still up?  It took us until Christmas Eve to have the house actually looking nice, so I wanted to actually enjoy looking at it for a week or two.  Today is the 12th day of Christmas, which is kind of my cutoff time for the end of Christmas season.  So I'll start taking down ornaments tonight and we'll get the tree on the curb this weekend.  A lot of my neighbors put their trees out with the trash this week and they didn't get picked up! 
  • imagebostonbaker:
    Am I the only one with everything still up?  It took us until Christmas Eve to have the house actually looking nice, so I wanted to actually enjoy looking at it for a week or two.

    I put up a lot of decorations the weekend after Thanksgiving and the beginning of December so we had had them up for a good month by the time we took them down.

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  • imagebostonbaker:
    Am I the only one with everything still up?  It took us until Christmas Eve to have the house actually looking nice, so I wanted to actually enjoy looking at it for a week or two. 

    This is why I like to get things up ASAP after Thanksgiving.  I love making it look like Christmas threw up in my house, but for all that effort I want to be able to enjoy it for as long as possible!

    We aren't usually so quick with getting things taken down, but with the holidays falling the way they did this year, I though I'd better take advantage of the time off we had to clean things up so I didn't have to try to do it over several nights after a long day at work, making dinner, cleaning up, etc.  Plus I got tired of it a lot faster this year than normal.

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  • December was such a disaster for us.  We put up our outdoor lights Thanksgiving weekend and after that all of our time was spent working, baking cakes, baking cookies, going to holiday parties, travelling to visit family, shopping for gifts, etc.  I have no idea how it got so busy.
  • imagebostonbaker:
    December was such a disaster for us.  We put up our outdoor lights Thanksgiving weekend and after that all of our time was spent working, baking cakes, baking cookies, going to holiday parties, travelling to visit family, shopping for gifts, etc.  I have no idea how it got so busy.

    Ha, this is basically what every December is like for us so I guess I'm used to it!

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  • We usually keep everything up until the 6th (12th day of Christmas). This year for some unknown reason we went into hyper mode and took everything down in about 3 hours Sunday night.  Then DH took all the boxes to the basement on Monday so we are done way earlier than normal.  Of course, like always there were a few stragglers ... the kitchen hand towels are washed but still sitting on the dresser in our bedroom.

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  • Is the whole "12 Days of Christmas" actually a thing? I thought it was just a song Embarrassed
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  • I always heard that the 12th day of Christmas was the day the 3 wise men arrived.  At my parents house my mom has the 3 wise men travel around the house from room to room until they arrive in the nativity on January 6th.
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  • imageKiwiChampagne:
    I always heard that the 12th day of Christmas was the day the 3 wise men arrived.  At my parents house my mom has the 3 wise men travel around the house from room to room until they arrive in the nativity on January 6th.

    That's so cute :)

    I didn't know it wasn't just a song either until a few years ago.  And I went to Catholic school!

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  • imageKiwiChampagne:
    I always heard that the 12th day of Christmas was the day the 3 wise men arrived.  At my parents house my mom has the 3 wise men travel around the house from room to room until they arrive in the nativity on January 6th.

    Yes, this is what I was referring to.  That is so cute that your mom moved the wise men around... I love that idea! 

  • Kiwi- ditto Rock and Baker, that's really cute! It reminds me of the shelf elf!

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  • I took it down new years day but i had a visiting MIL who i put to work!
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