This weekend was time, finally, to put the Christmas decorations away. Our tree is made of metal, so it wasn't that we had needles all over the carpet -- it's just that the wonder of the lights at night seems to have ebbed. That, and we've got to make space for the Valentine tree.
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| The Christmas tree, decorated two months ago. |
Our lights go all over the living room and up the stairs to the second floor. To store them away so they're not tangled when I pull them back out next year, I get a piece of sturdy cardboard and cut little notches in it for the cord plugs.
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I'm going to toss the blue box
and use the ugly brown piece of cardboard instead. |
Then I wrap the lights around the cardboard, tucking the ends into the notches.
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| This is what I use the cardboard for -- to keep the cord untangled. |
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| And this is how I wrapped Christmas up. |
Here's the stack of decorations, ready to go downstairs, in front of a bare tree. It's just a little sad and dark now.
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