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Would you like to swap? 
Mine is of the "I've finished with that, drop it here" school of tool management, sadly.
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I'm OCD, so I cannot rush through. It is literally impossible for me.
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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I'm CDO.The letters are arranged in alphabetical order, as they should be!
(And I see nothing funny about it, either)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I don't have any decorations, no tree no nothing. Yeah, I'm "that" kind of person.
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A Grinch? 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Same here
Never can be bothered to set up and definitely not spend money on it so...
Tom
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All decorations were taken down and carefully packed away on New Years day.
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I'm plan ahead and my wife is rush through.
Which usually means that when I have a plan it's already rushed through.
Which in turn means I'm sitting in an "orderly" house where noone can find anything, and I'm just bugger all about everything.
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I'm the kind of person who makes little 'cardboard carriers' to wrap the lights around and prevent tangles ... 
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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Kitchen roll tubes: make a cut about 2 ~ 5 cm long at one end, and use it to hold one end of the stringy stuff. Wind it on, then Sellotape the other end in place. 
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It's not just me then! 
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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I was thinking of keeping it till Jan end to get a bit more of that Christmas feel ? why rush it ? (this should not be interpreted as laziness)
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Plan ahead, always. Surprisingly enough, my wife is the same way.
Christmas stuff usually gets taken down within the first 2 weeks of January. Christmas tree pickup (special garbage collection) is the entire month of January.
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I am neither, I procrastinate forever. Then I rush and break stuff. 
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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OriginalGriff wrote: So ... which type are you? "Plan ahead" or "Rush through"?
I'm a "plan to rush" kind of person.
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I'm from Minnesota and largely a plan a-header with a plan b or c at the ready.
I found My dear wife of 32 years on a Southerm California beach and finds planning to make the way straighter an affront to all that is cool. She's 56 and a fox still with 30 somethings hitting on her so yeah. I roll with it.
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Huh, maybe we married the same woman...
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I jst took the whole (small and artificial) christmas tree and stuffed it into its box until next year. Lights, ornaments and 3D printed Death Star tip still on it.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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First point - I plan ahead by nature - it is, to put it mildly, very under-appreciated by nearly everyone (except my IT Director). For example, what's wrong with allowing more than twenty minutes for a twenty minute trip?
If I had such decorations, I'd think ahead when the time came to install them, planning fully for the reversion to their stored state . . . and just leave them in their boxes.
But - and how many of you are victims of this:
If Mrs. Wife wants something put away and I don't do it until the time is right, she may well do it for me. Then, when I ask her where it is, she will tell me with absolute certainty, the wrong place at least a few times. By accident or design? I don't have the b@lls to ask.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: By accident or design? I don't have the b@lls to ask.
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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W∴ Balboos wrote: ... when I ask her where it is, she will tell me ...
All I get is "well I don't know what you've done with it".
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Plan ahead.
In my house, Mrs. Wife comments on how there aren't enough lights here or too much tinsel there while I put up the tree.
I also take down the tree, carefully putting ornaments back in their original boxes, each string of lights and tinsel in its own bag.
There's a system to it, carefully arrived at after 30+ years of the holidays.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Were it up to me, they wouldn't be up at all. What goes up most come down, why do that when the end result is not having anything up anyway?
I do the minimum -- get the tree out of the garage, set it up, wait for her to position each needle precisely, then get dizzy by putting on the lights. After that, it's up to her.
At some point, I get dizzy by removing the lights, box the stupid tree, and haul it right back out to the garage.
"If you put it up, leave it up!" I say.
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I look around to see if someone else has worked out a solution and just use theirs.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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