Comments on: Confessions of a Casual Perfectionist: Day 17

By: JoAnn

JoAnn — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:23:41 +0000

Gretchen, I love that you called it Christmas junk. LOL!

Monnik, you store it completely intact!? CHEATER! (but I love it!)

Melissa, I have a Bah Humbug ornament you may like. Or not. Heh.

Oh, Leanne, don’t even get me started about wrapping the presents. UGH.

By: Leanne Shirtliffe (http://ironicmom.com)

Leanne Shirtliffe (http://ironicmom.com) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:19:27 +0000

Thanks for breaking the silence on this one. While I don’t loathe decorations, I don’t love ‘em either. Mostly, it’s the taking down that annoys me, so I have a minimalist approach (i.e. a tree and a pointsettia). What I do hate, however, is wrapping presents. And crafts. And sewing.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:18:28 +0000

I am dumbfounded by the fact you don’t like Christmas decorations. I adore them, and I love after Christmas, when we can take them down and go back to normal. My SIL leaves her tree up until her birthday in mid-Jan (which is odd to me).

So, a MHM ornament exchange isn’t gonna happen?

By: Monnik

Monnik — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:44:16 +0000

I love Christmas decorations, but loathe putting them away. And I have an artificial tree that scratches so bad that I have to wear gloves to fluff it up and put decorations on it. It gets to bad that I made my husband clear out closet space int he basement so that we can store it completely in-tact all year long. (lazy!)

Even though I like Christmas decorations, I *love* the clean, minimalist decor that returns to my house in January.

By: gretchen from lifenut

gretchen from lifenut — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:29:40 +0000

Hey, I admitted I hate Halloween decorations recently. So I guess it’s okay if you are a total sourpuss humbug. Just kidding.

I like Christmas trees and we have a very cute Fisher Price nativity set. I put out a few things, mostly to appease my mother who loves giving me holiday knick-knacks.

I HATE putting decorations away, which I am mindful of when I pull out the big boxes o’ Christmas junk. I usually have our house back to normal before New Year’s Eve.