We started putting our shit up almost immediately after Halloween. I don’t mind all the gaudy bullshit, just the work and storage space. I just want to put up projector lights. My wife complains that they look like someone didn’t put any effort in — I said that’s exactly why I like them. At least we were able to agree on a prelit tree with no extra ornaments. I do miss the extravagant trees my grandma put up when I was little but it’s so much breakable glass shit.

Last year I put up permanent Govee lights. They were pretty good but then we had our roof redone this fall and I noticed half of them don’t work now. C’est la vie.