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Article: Debbie Farmer: Many options for leftover holiday decorations
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- January 2, 2009
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I haven't lived this long without learning that there are three
things you can count on in life: one, death; two, taxes; and three,
leftover holiday decorations. Life being what it is, you might as
well give up trying to control numbers one and two, but you'd think
that number three wouldn't be too hard to manage. You would think.
However, no matter how hard you try, some objects simply refuse
to be put away. No one knows why this happens, but sometime in mid-
February, you'll look behind the sofa or underneath the ottoman and
find, say, a crocheted snowflake ornament that you swear you'd put
away months before.
This leaves you with two options. The first is to immediately go
out to the ...