Seriously people.
If I had more time, I’d go around at night snapping pictures of houses light up at night with multi-colored Christmas lights and decked-out Christmas trees in living room windows, googling their addresses and calling them out online.
I just don’t get it.
I know, I know: “I love Christmas. I hate when it’s over.” Blah, blah, blah. Some wait for the Epiphany. Fine. But that’s come and gone too. So do me a favor and take down your Christmas stuff. It’s time.
I know not everyone is like me, taking them down the day after Christmas. I’m not a bah humbugger; I do have a reason. We leave for Hayward after Christmas most years and coming back to the Christmas decorations is just a bad thing. I like the new year to come in cool, clean and clutter-free. The tree and all the accoutrements makes for a wonderfully cozy December mood. But the day the presents get opened, it’s over.
Out with the old.
In with the new.
Except…
I seem to have one small problem…
I just can’t seem…
to have the heart…
to take these another 4 steps…
to the trash!
But I’m getting closer.
Jeanne Strand says
I vote leave the beautiful poinsettia. Anything that looks that healthy deserves a chance. My mom, bless her heart, gets poinsettias to last from year to year. But she saves wrapping paper year to year too…. come to think of it, she saves just about everything. But still- Let the plant live!
Greta Hansen Begg says
have some integrity! get ride of that christmas plant! greta
Greta Hansen Begg says
subtract one e from my comment
Laurie says
oh, i can show you how to kill one of those suckers … just don’t water it, EVER