Anyones decs gone up and come down the same day?

Tuttifruitty_Theresa

a few years ago my dad decided to put their decorations up and he made it look like santa's grotto, there wasn't a piece of ceiling that didn't have tinsel on it, all the walls had lights on, when my mum and i walked in we just stood there mouths open, we couldn't even speak, when my mum could talk it only took her 2 mins to tell dad what she thought, they came down straight after and only took about 10 mins lol, needless to say dad has never surprised her again :rotfl:



xxxxx

teb_2

just in case anyone cares.....we're down to the couch covers now. mrs teb found me hiding and gave me a to do list. for the sake of a peaceful life.....:o

p.s i bet tuttifruttiTheresa's Dad made it look very cheerful and you silly women just dont appreciate style. :rotfl:

Bossyboots

I'm afraid its the same in our house. The whole place is cleaned right through before the decorations go up. If nothing else, its a chance to get everyone to put (or throw) their [STRIKE]rubbish[/STRIKE] things away.

UniqueEarthling

This year, my decs are up for the duration. But last year my eldest, and her friends, decided to help out and decorate.

I'm a stickler for symmetry and colour co-ordination...clearly from their efforts, they weren't :eek:

Not wanting to put a downer on their efforts, I tried hard to put up with them all evening. But, within 5 mins of her going to bed that night, I knew I couldn't live with them all Christmas; I ended up taking them down and re-doing them

Embarassingly, she knows me so well; her and her mates had taken bets on how long they would last; I think I outdid even the earliest estimate tho

jcr16

i must say although our dec's went up on sunday i had made sure i had given the lounge a really good clean before they went up, washed all windows. didn't do curtains but then i did them about 6 weeks ago.

my hubby helped this year and i must say he did very well. i like dec's to match the colour of the room and he did a fab job.

cosmic-dust

teb wrote:

Ours have. mrs teb was out shopping so i thought i'd be helpful and get all the decs out of the loft and start putting them up. seems you cant put the decs up until the windows are clean and the curtains have been washed and the couch stripped and covers washed and ALL surfaces have been thoroughly dusted and every corner hoovered.

decs are back in the loft until the weekend when operation clean will be over.

men never make things as complicated. :rolleyes:

You actually made me laugh out loud!!! :rotfl: :T

She can't accuse you of not trying. :rolleyes:

Hay_2

Sorry but same here:o The whole place gets scrubbed,floors polished,decluttered blah blaaaaah....Then the decs go up in a spotless house,the kids go to bed happy and we sit and have a nice glass of wine in our shiny christmassy house:j

comping_cat

I have to do a big clean before i put our decs up, however, once they are up, i clean around them rather than move them, so normally a big clean when i take them back down again!!!!