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Thursday, December 30, 2010

Clearing the Decks instead of Decking the Halls

Every year I take a photo of the tree before I take it down.This is 2010's photo.

This is going to be a short post as I am in my annual "clearing the decks" before New Years. I clean, sort, put stuff away, update my files and eat leftovers. I find clearing out a year's accumulation of all sorts of stuff leaves space for the creative ideas to flood in! Plus, it's a good way to review the year to set the intentions of next year. Now, if I could just find the two missing "stocking stuffer" gifts to give New Year's...

Do you "clear the decks" before New Year's? Or do you wait until New Year's itself?

4 comments:

Jim Murdoch said...

We keep our tree up as long as possible. Carrie's mum keeps hers as a permanent feature albeit not in the living room. When the kids all move out you've gotta do something with those rooms.

Carol Kilgore said...

Before. I like to begin with as clean a slate as possible. Great photo.

Happy New Year!

Cynthia Reed said...

This year, I took all the time between Christmas and New Year to get ready for 2011. Clear outs, new writing blog, new contacts via social media, files moved and boxed, some important documents scanned to a memory stick "just in case" they got lost in upcoming move...and much reflection. Funny, I'm not quite there yet, though! Seems to be taking longer. I liked your comment to me about the 15th being a good time to dive back in for you. Mayhap it's the same for me...and we didn't even have a tree this year!

Kathy McIntosh said...

I was gone during the clearing the decks process, but hope to start this weekend. Arduous. But you're right, it helps the creative process.