Just started going through the Christmas stuff from Papa’s house. Unless one of you wants any of them, (speak now or forever hold your peace!) I plan to toss the following:
plastic holly with that distinct plastic aroma including a large holly “kissing ball”
diabolical looking scampering plastic elves in the holly
red/white/green crocheted wreaths (for elves to perch on when they’re not scampering?)
enormous K-Mart red velvet bows for instant decorating!
Papa had several strings of clear mini-bulbs which I can use outside (unless someone wants them. I also have strings of multi-colored bulbs from my “old” tree which you are welcome to.) I found this pretty funny, Papa kept the boxes that all the lights came in and since there was no way they’d ever fit back inside, he wrapped the strands around the outside of each box. I can’t decide if that’s inspired or just quirky.
Inspired. I do that myself.
November 17, 2009 at 9:43 am
My Dad and husband do that too. So I vote inspired too! :)
November 17, 2009 at 9:56 am
We always wrapped the lights around the box … it helps keep them from becoming a tangled mess of fail come next christmas.
November 17, 2009 at 10:05 am
Inspired, definetly. Best way to keep them untangled is to wrap them around something, why not the box they came in? Makes perfect sense to me.
November 17, 2009 at 10:41 am
Ditto for inspired – I do the same thing. But I’m also OCD, kinda like Monk’s twin sister……
November 17, 2009 at 12:43 pm
We’ve done that my entire life…thought everyone did!
November 17, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Oh, that actually brought a large nostalgic tear to my eye, and made me so very home sick!
Not only was my late gf called Papa, he and my late gm had these EXACT same decorations up every Christmas of my entire childhood, and he did the lights around the box thing!
If I were the recipient of that note, I probably would have been compelled to take those items to decorate my own home.
Sigh… Good times!
November 18, 2009 at 1:36 am
Absolutely inspired. I”m going to do that myself this year.
Wondering if “diobolical scampering elves is what they were called all their lives or if you had to think about it to figure outwhat they were..
November 18, 2009 at 1:34 pm
They weren’t ever called “diabolical scamering elves” until now – but when she wrote that, I knew exactly what she was talking about!
November 19, 2009 at 9:57 am