I did just put away advent stuff this morning. The table we use is now back to it's normal, calm, blue/green/brown decorations and the wall has been restored to my mostly-white fences on a white wall. It looks so very calm and lovely.
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Another reason for getting the clean-up taken care of is that we're refinancing, and the appraiser is coming Tuesday January 8th. Part of me thinks that I should just leave the Christmas decorations up, and he might miss the every-day clutter in the midst of the Christmas clutter. But I know I couldn't live in this state that long. (And why is it that the number of days between now and January 8th seems really lonnngg when I think of living with the clutter, but really short when I think of having to straighten the house for the appraisal?)
Today at 2 p.m. I'm meeting some lady at the gas station in town to get rid of a simply amazing amount of Littlest Pet Shop toys. Thank goodness for FreeCycle!
Oooh, I love your gates on the wall!
ReplyDeleteEverything is still Christmas at my house. I like to leave it up until Epiphany, although this year I might start early. (It will take me that much longer with my energy level and hampered ability.) I did make sure the Advent decor was set out of the way at church when we prepared for a memorial service the other day.
Good luck with the appraisal!
I am always sad when I have to undecorate. I have to do it by the 4th because that's when the tree will be taken away for free.
ReplyDeleteMy post-Christmas house seems extra dreary this morning--sent the boy off to Chicago (via Sacramento, three hours' drive south) and our droopy decor has lost its holiday charm. Today we'll watch a marathon of season 3 Downton Abbey (prepping for the Christmas special) while we untrim the tree. Our local community thriftshop will come soon to get the old loveseat taking up valuable real estate in the "library", which should [help] fix the logjam of things-that-should-go-somewhere-else. 2013, here we come!
ReplyDeleteI love the gates!
ReplyDeleteI hear you on the undecorating. I dread it, esp since it takes me days to get it all up and I feel like I just finished it. However, this lazing around the house admiring it is getting old....it will definitely all be down come next week.
I do so little decorating I have hardly anything to put away. But still, somehow, after I have carried the Christmas and Hanukkah storage boxes (all two of them) to the attic, there are still things lying around the house that didn't make it into the box. Up to the attic again, with a sigh. That just leaves me with the everyday clutter.
ReplyDeleteI love the almost-white fences!
Good luck with the appraisal! I love how my house looks when I've decorated for Christmas, but it's also so satisfying to put everything away again.
ReplyDeleteWe undecorated today, two tubs of decorations packed up and the tree dragged to the side of the house to be chopped up and put into our garden bin.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I do is not immediately replace the chair that goes where the tree has been, I like seeing the empty space for a while and it makes the room feel bigger. The chair does need to go back as there's not enough space at the other end of the room for it to stay permanently but for a week or two we enjoy the light that floods in with nothing in front of the window.
Holy cow, those fences are charming! I'm left wondering what's all around them, though- and how big are they? Where did you get them? Have you done a post on this in the past, and I just missed it?
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