For those of you that know Brad's mom - you know that Brad grew up in a house that was truly decked-out for the holidays and why Cindy Clark had a custom closet built in their new home to house all her holiday decor. So, of course, not decorating (despite the fact it was only going to be the two of us this year) was not an option. Well, we put up not one, but TWO christmas trees, stockings, christmas knick-knacks and the traditional door wreath. And as it usually goes, it ended up taking us about 3 weeks after Christmas to take it all down. This year I thought I would be smart and buy a storage bag for our artificial tree as opposed to wrapping it in large black trash bags. Now, you would think that the concept of taking down a fake tree and putting it into a bag is a pretty simple concept, but not so much. Just imagine for moment an ordinary gym duffle bag - now multiply the size of that bag by lets say 100....this was the size of our tree bag that I bought. The first thought that came to both of us was "that bag is huge - the tree will go right in without any problems." Lets just put it this way, after about an hour of fighting with the tree, bag and each other -it finally went in.....all that was left to figure out was where the giant gym bag was going to be stored....I guess the custom holiday closet does not look so stupid now!
