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Instead of removing each and every tree bauble, decoration, tinsel and lights. Then dismantling the tree and packing it away. Then humping it all into the loft, I thought of removing all the inner packs of cereal from the boxes.
Building a wall with the ceral boxes around the Christmas tree and wallpapering the new wall to match the other walls.
Okay, you have a funny shaped corner but stick a clock and photo of granny on it and think that in 11 short months, you just need to take the new wall down and hey presto, there is a perfectly decorated tree in its shining glory!
This year I unpacked the tree and decorated it whilst it was still in loft.
Come 12th night, all I had to do was unplug the Christmas tree lights and that was it finished.
Any visitors to my house over Christmas were given the opportunity of popping their heads through the loft hatch to see my lovely tree.
Next year all I'll have to do is plug the lights back in, you will have to dismantle the wall and find space for the clock and pictures :-)
What about a simple hoist in the loft so that you simply lower it down at Christmas, detatch the hook and then hoist it back after Christmas!
This year I took a photograph of my neighbours tree and had a colour print of it made on A0 paper.
This was hung on the wall with luminous paint "dots" where the lights appeared.
On 12th night, the whole thing is simply rolled up for storage.
This could be improved even more with the addition of 3D "stereo" glasses and a re-print.
TJ
Instead of the neighbours we could take a photo of Trafalgar/Times Square etc.
I will abandon my loft tree! (though I was tempted by the hoist idea)
I will simply climb over my fence and press my face up against my neighbours window and look at their tree.
When it gets dark and they pull their curtains, I will have to invite myself in to have a look. That way I can look at their tree, get a FREE cup of tea and not have to do the washing up or tea making.
I wont have to do anything, apart from a small bit of walking between houses, but the excercise might help with the excess Christmas weight one always seems to put on at this time of year.
I have no tree and no decorations.
I just hang the cards I get and then cut them up for gift tags for next year.
Dah Nah!
Ska
Next year, for the Christmas period, I will wear shorts, tee shirt and flip flops. That way I can fool myself into thinking it's June.
Everyones knows you'd have to be a complete idiot to put any kind of Christmas decoration up at that time of year.
Come to think of it I will save money, coz if it's June I wont have to buy Christmas presents................though I might consider the odd summer-holiday present for close friends and family.
Everyone knows that Dilbert has a special closet downstairs into which he wheels his Christmas Tree when it's all over (and wheels it out again for next year, obviously)?
Scott Adams is the new Carl Sagan says I...
Rgds
Damon
Now that's classical!
40 press-ups please peewhy ;-)
What's with you people?
None of you are thinking out of the box / cupboard / closet / faux-doric-column...
Just move into a pine forest. Nothing to put up, nothing to take down...
Rgds
Damon
How do you light up the tree ... plug it into the earth/ground?
Squirrels eat mince pies.
When the wind blows, the baubles chime .. scary!
Someone might take a liking to my tree and chop it down whilst i'm burying pine cones for regeneration.
There's a lot of negatives to living in the woods, look what it did to Bigfoot!
Rgds
Damon
PS. Anyway, I quite like wind-chimes, if I can forget the New-Age-y associations...
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Next year, for the Christmas period, I will wear shorts, tee shirt and flip flops. That way I can fool myself into thinking it's June.
That's what I wear on Christmas day every year! But then again, I'd look pretty stupid wearing boots, a parka and scarf in the British Virgin Islands!
Our "Christmas Tress" are not exactly pine or spruce and to be honest ... I find it hard getting into the Christmas spirit here when its 80 degrees and the trade winds are blowing at 15 knots.
I'm still waiting for my "virtual" Christmas Tree. You take your 6 inch by 2 inch round platform, stick it in a corner, switch it on and a lovely 3D image appears of a magnificent blue spruce all decked out for the season. Of course, you can adjust your tree to any size you wish and you can even change the colours of the decorations if you wish! Just programme it in. Takes two minutes and you're done.
Now that's my idea of decorating (and storage) made easy! ;)
I think cutting a trap door in the corner of the room and dropping the Christmas Tree in the basement works.
Tie rope around the top and pull it up when required. Plug and play.
Forget holograms, hoists, mince pie eating mammals, hot trade winds and wickedly fooling friends into thinking you live in a pine forest for 3 weeks a year.
Cut a trap door in your floor, as already suggested, and then live under the floor boards for 3 weeks.
You may need a supply of cheese and a flask of tea.
Could could tell friends you are going on an exotic Christmas holiday to a destination where you can't buy postcards.
Phew! That is my next year sorted out then..........
A bottle of instant tan and a camping toilet ... what more can one desire?
Well, maybe not...
