when the holiday decorations came out, we agreed to condense as much as possible before they went back into storage…

last Friday evening, we began the process…

the snow people, reindeer, and sleighs were combined into one container, from two…

I took all of the ornaments off the tree and got them into the bottom of another bin, matched by colour and shininess…

the tree came down and was packed away, and the miscellaneous decorations around the house were gathered up and added to a couple of boxes…

not sure how many boxes were combined, but the stack looks pretty good…