Christmas is Over

December 28, 2014

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Although I didn’t hear his wife call shotgun, I’m pretty sure the tree didn’t say it first.

Christmas is a cause for celebration. Everyone is thankful and pleasant. Food seems plentiful. Moods are good (that was a joke!). Booze is coursing through my veins so I ignore everyone’s moods, including my own. Christmas also reminds me of our Christmas tree adventures throughout the years. I will itemize them so you can get on with dismantling your tree.

As long as I can remember, my father has said ‘Take down the tree, Christmas is over’ the moment the last gift was unwrapped. My brother called me this year at 8.05am and proclaimed the same. Ornament doesn’t fall far from the tree.
We had Christmas sometime after the 25th and before January first with my mum every year as kids. As such, we would search the curbs for Christmas tree discards because, funny enough, you can’t buy a Christmas tree past December 24th. Go figure. Bonus if the tree still had tinsel attached. I would have been perfect if my folks lived in the same city. My dad’s discards could have been my mum’s new decor. But alas…
Mister and I had our first married Christmas in Australia. It is summer in December and we went to a cut-your-own tree yard in our shorts (that’s when I used to like my legs). Know what happens when you bring a tree in from outside when it is not frozen? The bugs inhabiting the tree decide to check out their new accommodations. Australian bugs are bigger than Canadian bugs. After the screams, we never did find that giant green bug that crawled up my arm as I was hanging the lights.
In Canada you put your tree at the curb and the man in the big truck takes it away. In Australia it is not apparent what you do with your dead tree if you only just moved there. Dumps are not in the yellow pages and the internet was not around. We finally found a guy hauling a trailer of garbage and followed him to the Tip. That’s what they are called. Tips. Obvious, I know. So we brought our tree to the Tip around about Feb 25. The guy asked, ‘Sure you don’t want to keep it ’til next year mate?’ He didn’t charge us.

I will let you go. Christmas is over folks. Resume your normal lives.

Kristine Laco

Comments

kdcol : December 29, 2014 at 12:19 am

I’m still holding out for the New Year’s holiday. And then maybe, just maybe, I’ll be able to resume my normal life. I think my husband and I may have tried the real tree thing once. I’m not sure though. Don’t know if it left me so traumatized that I forgot, or I probably just forgot. 🙂

- Kristine @ Mum Revised : December 29, 2014 at 7:02 am
  
  I have no real normal left. But I aspire.
  
eva : December 29, 2014 at 1:03 pm

I am currently waiting for my tree to spontaneously combust – should be any second now…..BOOM!!!

- Kristine @ Mum Revised : December 29, 2014 at 1:52 pm
  
  What? You’re supposed to water them??
  
Spidermummy : January 2, 2015 at 9:16 am

Hahaa like the bit about Australia, I had one there in 1999 and it’s still my favourite Christmas EVERRRR. (To be fair I was single and childless so, well, it’s always going to be more fun isn’t it!) Took me ages to get my head around being on the beach on Christmas day! (I coped though. I’m a trooper.) Happy New Year! x

- Kristine @ Mum Revised : January 2, 2015 at 2:23 pm
  
  We took the kids to Melbourne one Christmas and that was one of the best. I brought fake snow to throw at the kids Christmas Day and had a blast on the beach. Our little potted tree barely made it through the three weeks (green thumb I am not). We did enjoy the sandwiches in the ocean one night when it was too stinking hot to go anywhere else. Good times.
  
Catherine Burgess : January 2, 2015 at 10:05 am

Haha, amazing! Our tree comes down just after New Year but hubby is always anti-festive in putting it up in December…it would go up Christmas Eve if it was up to him! #TheList

- Kristine @ Mum Revised : January 2, 2015 at 2:20 pm
  
  My husband would have it up all year so long as I was the one to water and vacuum up after it. Mr. Festive just likes how everything looks but can’t be bothered with the work of it. Thx for visiting, I will stop by your site too.
  
Pinknoam : January 2, 2015 at 12:41 pm

Our christmas tree was down on the 27th. It would’ve been down on the 26th but we were too busy getting shitfaced (again) elsewhere.

Hope you’ve had a good Christmas, and Happy New Year!

- Kristine @ Mum Revised : January 2, 2015 at 2:18 pm
  
  We are very happy 2014 is over. I just beat my daughter at a video game and she is sulking so the year is already looking up!
  
You Baby Me Mummy : January 2, 2015 at 6:41 pm

I took our tree down the day after boxing day! Happy new year hun! Thanks for linking up to #TheList x

- Kristine @ Mum Revised : January 3, 2015 at 6:55 am
  
  I am waiting for the tree ornaments to just drop off on their own this year.