Christmas Storing
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Homemaking on Thursday, January 13, 2011 11:18 PM
Now that we’re back into Ordinary Time, it’s confession time.
Here’s mine: although December 25th was almost three weeks ago, we STILL have Christmas presents sitting in boxes in our living room.
I know!
I’d love to claim the stress of pregnancy as the reason for my disorganization, but I can’t lie. It’s like this every year. In fact, before we had kids, we were even worse at putting away the gifts. Probably because we didn’t have little ones to make a mess of the boxes and impel us to clean-up action.
The underlying problem, I think, is one of housekeeping’s perennial ones: too much stuff, not enough space. That’s true in our house normally, so adding a bunch of brand-new stuff to the equation enlarges the problem.
I know some people who go spartan at Christmas-time, and don’t bring many new things into their homes. I admire their self-control, but I know that’s never going to happen. Gifts are a love language for a lot of people in our family, including my daughter, so we won’t be choosing to have present-free Christmases at our house any time in the near future.
(God willing, we’ll always be able to choose! I know many families can’t afford to buy their children gifts at Christmas, and we try to do our part to help them too.)
We don’t go overboard, and we try to buy things without a bunch of small pieces, but after the gift-wrap settles, we’re still left with plenty of new things to put away. And really, it comes down to simply taking the time to do it. We have to buckle down and sort, and figure out which old things to trash or donate, and find spots for all the new things. It’s not complicated, just time-consuming.
So I’m thinking next week. We’ll definitely get it done next week. Yes.
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