Discombobulated
These few days after Christmas are always so discombobulating.
I love having all this new stuff!
But…where is it all supposed to go? There’s too MUCH stuff already. I will NEVER get it all put away. NEVER. *runs away sobbing*
I love Christmas decorations!
But…now that Christmas is over, it just looks like clutter. And sadly, it’s clutter that I’ll be cleaning and packing away. Alone. Except for the two small children I mind each day.
Aaah, the scent of Christmas candles!
But…the smell is making me nauseous. How about some Clean Laundry scent instead? Anything but evergreen or gingerbread or Christmas cookie. Blech.
Some of my favorite possessions are my Christmas ornaments!
But…they are getting on my nerves, taunting me from their places on the tree, “you have to put each one of (hundreds in all)** back into our boxes. It will take you hours. Mwa ha ha ha.”
Mmmm, pie! Cookies! Delectable herb-crusted pork with green beans and loaded baked potato casserole!!
But…the thought of eating anything besides celery and water makes me feel like I may possibly explode. *Kaboom*
**total exaggeration.
I know what you mean. Christmas is wonderful…but it can also be wonderful to put it all away.
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I’m looking forward to packing it all up - we’ve got a small house and I swear the tree takes up half of our living/family/play room.
I highly recommend getting an ornament storage thingy. I used to keep all our ornaments in their own little boxes and then I realized Why the heck am I saving these boxes? For resale value? Who’s going to want our old ornaments and would I ever really want to give them away. So last year I pitched all those little tiny boxes and got a nice big ornament storage thing from The Container Store. Pack up time was so quick and then this year putting the ornaments on the tree went much quicker.
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I know what you mean — I always think that I will NEVER find a place to put all the new stuff I get every December. But it always seems to find a place…
I love my Christmas decorations, and I don’t want to take them down yet, but I have to agree…now that the holiday is over, they feel sort of like ‘clutter’ which makes me crazy. Perhaps we should all start celebrating the 12 days of Christmas so that it’s enjoyable for just a little bit longer…
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I hear ya. My pre-New Years resolution is to get all this crap put away so I can start 2008 with a clean, organized house. Ha! At least a somewhat picked up house. Now I need to find a place for all the new stuff I bought at Target for 50% off….
Good luck!
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Amen. Oh and amen.
-Fatty McFatterson out.
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Preaching to the choir, sistah! I can so relate to you right now.
Discombobawhat?
What kind of Canadian $5 word is THAT?!?
We should have a tree de-decorating party. Think of all of the beer cans we’d find under it. We could take ‘em in for recycling, cash in and have a nice dinner out at the Golden Corral!
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THIS is exactly how I feel right now!
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I couldn’t agree more! The after-Christmas aftermath is SUCKING THE LIFE out of me!!!
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Love your new site look!
I am a bit ahead of the game on decorations, since we didn’t decorate for Christmas this year :/ I have plenty of stuff to put out next year, though!
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Right with you - the new toys are invading every area of our house and I don’t even know where to begin to start organizing…..help…..
(like the new header - looks stylin)
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I understand the toys reproducing like rabbits thing. I feel like a toy store opened up shop in my house. Good luck with the packing. Keep thinking positive. Only what? 30 more days of Alabama?
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I couldn’t have said it any better!
Everything just sort of seems sort of sad at this point. Like it’s just WAITING to come down.
OH yes. I hear you. My sons toys are in a box in the middle of the floor. STILL. And today I get the job of cleaning and putting away all the Christmas decorations. They came out of 17 boxes. Oh, yeah. I am that mad. Lets not mention the 7 Christmas trees, two of which are real and need to be disposed of somehow.
My teen girls are conveniently at friends houses and my son will spend the whole time screaming at me to not throw away Christmas.
Someone pass the coffee. It is going to be a looooooooong day.
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You have been in my head, reading my thoughts.
I need to clean up, I need to sort toys, I need to have someone else do it.
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Most of the clean-up has been done (we didn’t do much since Little Elvis likes shiny things so much.) But now that the boxes are packed up outside, I keep finding Christmas decorations that I left out. I now have a pile of stuff to take out and cram into the carefully packed boxes. Oh well.
Loaded baked potato casserole? Is it from Emeril? My MIL made that this year and it was sooooo yummy.
And I am stuck in that discombobulated place to. I HATE it. I have no where to put all this CRAP. Ugh. I need to clean my house but I JUST CAN’T. *runs away with you, sobbing*
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Yep. I’m done with it all too. I wish I could just wave a magic wand and have it put itself away though….
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I got yer “AMEN” right here, sister.
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oh, i know. it’s so much work on the front end AND on the back end.
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heheh…I feel your pain sista.
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Me too! I just can’t help but think how much bigger my living room will be without the Christmas tree.
Say no more. I with you.
What is the next holiday?
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Isn’t it funny how all the sparkly things seemed so pretty last week, but now it seems like time to blow them all up? I couldn’t wait to put the stuff up, now I can’t wait to take the crap down.
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I threw out the rest of my cookies. I just couldn’t even look at them anymore.
I’m with you on the putting away of ornaments. I adore mine….but I wish my House Elf would come in already, so I wouldn’t have to clean them up. Hey, when do you move?
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Like everyone else, I’m right there with you. I’ve been trying to get geared up for taking down the Christmas decorations, but haven’t made it there yet. I’m ready to toss all of the baked goods still cluttering my counters….
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I feel exactly the same way. I was just telling Nick that the house looks like a disaster. It’s just a huge cluttered mess. I asked if I could take down the Christmas cards and get rid of them and he said no, not yet. I’m ready for it to all be gone.
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I am drowning in a sea of clutter right now. Which is why I am hiding in front of the computer. My safe place. My happy place. Make the clutter stop.
WE HAVE NO PLACE TO PUT ALL OF THESE NEW TOYS.
NO PLACE. AT ALL.
I haven’t even begun to tackle the Christmas decorations yet….
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The crap everywhere is driving me crazy too. I still need to pack away the Chanukah stuff ….
And the thought of more toys coming into this house when SB has his birthday party in 3 weeks is almost too much to handle.
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I procrastinate putting my christmas decorations up every year. I absolutely adore them. They are definitely in the top lists of my possessions.
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So, what you’re saying is that it’s wrong that I ate baklava for breakfast this morning? But it’s okay that 8 million new pieces of shiny plastic have invaded every corner of my home? Ah, Christmas.
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I always feel like i could write your posts, i have no idea what to do with all my christmas junk
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I am literally sitting her about four feet away from the STILL DECORATED tree. The decorations from the house are all stashed in a corner and I’m trying to will them into a box and up into the attic with my mommy angst.
It ain’t workin.’
Happy New Year!
I came over from Mrs. Fussypants!
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