Early Christmas Preparations

It’s got to that time in our house when we try to remember where in the loft we put the Christmas decorations, the tree lights, and the spare Christmas Cards and wrapping paper left over from last year. Each year I promise myself that when I put all these items back in the loft, I will clearly mark the packaging they are in so that it is easy to find them the following year, and each year they just get dumped back in the loft after Twelfth Night!

About a week ago my wife suggested that we had accumulated so many decorations over the years that it was time to get rid of some of them, so that started the search! I discovered about half a dozen boxes of glass Christmas tree decorations that we have not used for years, so these were taken to the Martin House charity shop in Skipton.



Today it was the turn of “hunt the tree lights”, and once again we had accumulated a few sets of lights, two of which were boxed and unopened. There were also two or three sets that weren’t working, so after a fruitless hour of testing bulbs, fuses etc. these were finally thrown in the bin! The two unopened and working sets have gone to a shop in Harrogate called “Space” which specialises in Retro items! (I think both of the new unopened sets of lights were circa 1960!)




So now we know where the working sets of white lights are, where the Christmas tree decorations are, and where the spare Christmas cards and wrapping paper are. All that remains now is to purchase a real Christmas tree, and put the lights and decorations on it, write the Christmas cards and address the envelopes and post them, and then we can put up our feet and relax and enjoy the Christmas season!!

Oh I nearly forgot! - there's just that little job of buying the Christmas presents, the turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, sausage meat, vegetables, mince pies, cheese, trifle, alcoholic beverages etc. Thank goodness for those two Christmas Saints - Marks & Spencer!