Christmas Slackers

How many of you lazy bastards haven't taken down your Christmas decorations yet? Is it because you don't want the holidays to be over, or can you not be bothered to get off the couch?

For me, it's a bit of both. I bought a new tree last year (after Christmas), and I wasn't home during the actual holiday to enjoy it this year. I meant to take it down last weekend, but I wasn't quite ready. This weekend I'm going to force myself to do it, because I don't want to be one of those people who has Christmas lights up in July.

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I wish I could of been one of those lazy Christmas bastards. My wife on the other hand wouldn't allow it because she hates clutter and especially anything that has the potential to create a mess.

We put up the Christmas decorations on December 22nd and had everything taken down on January 3rd. I'm use to not taking down the Christmas decorations until the middle of January. Well its all over with so at least there is no more heavy lifting and at least the house is a lot less dirty.

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My Christmas lights lasted until February or March last year for a multitude of reasons. Laziness was the primary cause, but I also enjoyed having the festive lights up as a change of pace. I was a little curious to see if anyone would actually complain after a couple of months too, but no luck there.

It was tempting to do that again this year, but the green lights burned out before Christmas, the yellow right after, and the blue went out last night. So now I've just got flashing red lights on my balcony making my apartment look like the Love Shack.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Our "Christmas" lights aren't really Christmas lights at all. They stay up year round and serve a plethora of party uses, multi-holiday decoration and ambient lighting throughout the year. The only time those fuckers ever get taken down is when they fucking die.

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We didn't actually have any Christmas decorations in our flat (since both me and my flatmate go away for Christmas) and so we didn't actually have anything to take down.

I think one of the best examples of Christmas Slackerage I've seen in recent times was the pub opposite my work's building which only took down their 2007 Christmas lights in late August of 2008.

I was speaking idiomatically.

This year's example of slacking was that we didnt put up any decorations at all. Putting up a tree means cleaning out an area to put the tree, which didnt happen, plus we're not exactly in the best financial situation, so we would have been putting up a tree to have a grand total of like, 5 presents underneath it.

I think the lack of decorations this year was also brought on by last year's laziness... my sisters were so enthusiastic about a tree... they wanted a tree, they NEEDED a tree. So they did a slipshod job of cleaning the area, put up the tree, and left it there. Christmas, New Years, Valentines Day, EASTER came and went, and they were too lazy to take down what they NEEDED to put up. It was up until the end of March. I was appalled when I came home for Spring Break and it was still up.

So this year, while not as festive, was much simpler.

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We had all our shit down the day after Christmas.

Partially because I LOATHE Christmas shit up after Christmas (breaks my heart), partially because my cats were destroying the tree slowly and surely.

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My 2006 Christmas decorations are still in place, actually. Around Christmas time that year, a couple friends of mine spent some time at my place and decided to experiment glass painting on my windows. The result was rather nice and I've kept it to this day, as it also reminds me of what a good time I had back then.

It's even possible to wash the windows without erasing the paint at all.

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Originally Posted by Sassafrass

We had all our shit down the day after Christmas.

Partially because I LOATHE Christmas shit up after Christmas (breaks my heart), partially because my cats were destroying the tree slowly and surely.

We use to have that trouble the past couple of years. We have four cats right now and surprisingly they never did anything bad to the tree this year, but we still wouldn't leave them alone with the tree if we had to go out somewhere. I find a squirt bottle full of water a good tool to deter cats from doing anything bad to the tree.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

You can't always catch them with a squirt bottle, though. (Ours are DEATHLY AFRAID of the bottle. They only have to SEE it and they run like hell)

We're also not always around (we're on the road a lot), so we can't babysit our tree ;_;

Maybe if we put a RING of water bottle squirters around the tree next year.... heeee

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