Let's see your Christmas trees! *No quoting pics please*
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First Christmas in our first home meant we needed our first Christmas tree.
It could do with more lights but that's an upgrade for next year.
We've a few other window lights and festive bits on the wall but we weren't able to go too mad. The collection will build over the years.
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Don't know why I don't just repost last years or the year befores or all the way back to 2010's Christmas Decorations photo's because very little changed. 🤣
[EDIT] Actually, one thing changed!! After 10 years I finally had the Eureka moment about how to make our lives much easier decorating that 10ft Living-room tree without teetering on a step-ladder up and down, move ladder, up and down, move ladder round and round the tree for an hour. LOL. The Trick?? Do the Living-room Tree before the Dining-Room Tree. Put the bottom two sections (Rather than the whole 4 section tree) in the Tree base in the middle of the room with the 4 feet on Floor sliders as normal. Put the Top two sections of the Living-room Tree into the Tree Base belonging to the Dining-room Tree set up on the floor beside the bottom two sections. Now the Bottom two and the Top two sections of the Tree are effectively like 5ft trees that we can decorate by simply walking round and round the tree with the lights and handfuls of decorations. When done a family member gets up on a step-ladder only once to provide a guiding hand....as I use my superior upper body strength to lift the now easily decorated top two sections of the tree out of the Dining-room tree base and up onto the Bottom two sections. Now mated together we just Slide the Completed 10ft Tree onto the corner of the room. Dining-Room Tree base is now free again to start on the Dining-room Tree. Another new trick this year was we labelled the last light in each of the two 600 LED Light Strings so we can find the last light when it comes to unwinding the lights and taking it all down in January. ie. One was labelled 'First On/Last Off' and the other was labelled 'Last on/First Off'. This will help greatly as there is some overlap of the two sets and if you start unwinding the wrong set first you end up with a morass of light-strings interwoven together, which usually just get dumped in a bag with a note from our January selves to our future selves the following November which reads something like, 'A Big F U 2021 Calibos from your good friend 2020 Calibos!!' LOL.
Actually, the Stairs and Landing Garland ended up being very quick and easy this year too and will also be easier to take down in January. The 1000 Light set we usually used on it got broken last year and I couldn't find a direct replacement this year so ended up buying two 600 light sets. So 200 more lights but importantly two of us were able to simultaneously hang the lights on the garland in two sections. One of us did the stairs section with one set and the other did the landing section with the other set and never the twain did meet...and no messy overlaps etc
Living Room 10ft Tree & Fireplace Garlands
Dining Room 7ft Tree and Fireplace Garlands
Hall Mini Side Table Tree and Hall, Stairs and Landing Garlands
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