Want to feel renewed and energized in the new year? Take down all your holiday decorations and put them away! It is so inspiring to just get rid of the cutter and clean up all the dust bunnies that collect during December. I love to put up the decorations and lights, but I equally enjoy taking them down after the new year. If I find any broken ornaments or lights that no longer work, I get rid of them if they cant be fixed.

What is the deal with pine needles? This is the first year I had a real tree. Wow, what a mess with the sap and the needles. ur tree was not dying at at all either. My daughter and I had a hard time lifting the trunk out of the tree stand. We did not want to spill the water. When we finally succeeded, we walked the tree out the front door and all the way around the house to the back alley so we would not drag the needles through the house. I am grateful for wood floors, and cannot even imagine having pine needles stuck in carpeting. I don’t think it would be possible to get those needles out of a deep rug.  Despite that mess, the live tree was beautiful.

Now I say having no tree is beautiful as well.

Happy cleaning.

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