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Tomorrow is Twelfth Night, and traditionally Christmas decorations should be removed before midnight.
And since Herself is off duty tomorrow I will take them down today. I told her it's so "it doesn't disturb her valuable day off" (which will involve remaining in pyjamas till noon, shouting at the TV, and snoring, probably) but it's really because we are different people.
I will take them down carefully, rolling strings of beads, card holders, sparkly stuff, lights, etc. around cardboard tubes before putting them in boxes.
She will pull them down as quickly as possible and throw them in a box.
My way, I get an easy life next December because I can just unroll stuff and up it goes. Her way, it will be one huge knot which will have acquired a life of it's own and actively resist unravelling.
So ... which type are you? "Plan ahead" or "Rush through"?
I think I can guess for some of you, but it would be interesting to see. 
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I thought the tradition is to take them down on the 6th?
As for tidying away Christmas tree lights and "strings" of tinsel - indeed, any cable/rope/string etc - it makes no difference how carefully it is wrapped and put away. There is Universal Law which states that: A rope (cable, etc) left to itself will tie itself in untangle-able knots. And that's a fact.
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Nope, all you have to do is establish your dominance over the cable/rope/string etc., and it will remain as you put it provided it is undisturbed (by your SO, cat, whatever). Once a less dominant person touches it, it will revert to the "Big Ball 'o Knots" within nanoseconds.
My cables remain tidy, my strings in neat balls.
Cable ties can help here.
Strangely, Chrome's spelling suggester thinks that should be "my strings in meatballs."
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Nah... you just have a superpower!
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I was bitten by a radioactive teddy bear back in my Cat-5 flood wiring days, that may have caused it.
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Conspiracy!! If you believe something because it's on YouTube you'll believe the earth is flat! 
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Arrgggh, spent many a year afore the mast!
'tis all true I tell ye!
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Right with the basic principles, but waaay too short a tail to actually hitch the rope for storage. (And a gasket hitch is really only sensible when the end is fixed to something.)
Days spent at sea are not deducted from one's alloted span - Phoenician proverb
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A true pedant!
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Her in doors, has enough of the Christmas decorations by boxing day. So they are removed then or the day after.
But she takes her time (as I'm not allowed to help as it ruins things apparently.) and they are put away carefully.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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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.
This space for rent
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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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