Christmas Decorations Are Put Away

Christmas is put away!

We took down our Christmas decor over the course of two days. It's not that it took that much time, but we had other things going on.

Our first task was to take down our second tree. We packed all the items, except, the bulbs into the tree box itself. Those items were the tree, stand, tree skirt, lights, extension cord, ribbon and beaded garland. My husband helped with this one and it went really fast, probably 20 minutes at the most.

The next step that we did on the same day was to take down our outdoor decorations. That involved getting out a ladder to take down the globe lights we hang around the porch ceiling. We packed the lights and extension cords in bin. There was an artificial wreath on our fence that we packed in the same bin. And finally, we have a tomato cage tree. We keep this intact all year long, to include the lights, berries and pine cones. So we simply moved it from the porch to the shelving in the garage. I was also helped by my husband for this task. It likely also took just 20 minutes.

On New Year's Eve we took down our main Christmas tree. I had everyone in the household help remove ornaments. I was in charge of wrapping the breakable ornaments in tissue. I have several zipped clear bags that I then stuff these into. Other ornaments go into boxes, those that are not breakable are not wrapped in tissue to save time. And then all items get placed into two bins. In these same two bins we store our nativity puzzle, tree skirt and lights for main tree, the stockings and mantle hangers. I had taken these down the day before and started packing them away. The final tree took longer since there were more ornaments and tissue wrapping was involved.

I did make the point to let go of a few ornaments and some picture books as we put things away.

Did you get your Christmas decorations put away? Did you declutter any of your decorations?