Christmas Ornaments

Shannon Patterson (left) and her husband, Rich Patterson, celebrate the Lunar New Year with adopted daughter Sophie Patterson, 4 1/2, at their home in Vancouver, B.C. This year Sophie wanted to include Chinese ornaments with the family's Christmas decorations.

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Here it is 17 days after Christmas and Debby and Lynn Willis are taking down their decorations. Okay, so it's a bit past Jan. 6, which some consider the absolute last day you're supposed to have Christmas decorations up.

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The box in my basement marked “X-mas stuff” is feeling a bit empty. We should have filled it back up this weekend with all the knickknacks, ornaments and strings of lights strewn on the tree perched by our living room window.

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Meghan Cox Gurdon Examiner Columnist Clearing away Christmas decorations is always a faintly gloomy affair. As you take down each ornament from the now dry and curling tree, there’s none of the pleasure of greeting an old friend, as there was when you pulled it out of its box. Three weeks ago, everyone was competing to hang his and her favorites: “Oh! The glass heart!” and “I get to hang the …

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Ask Anna columnist Anna Moseley has suggestions for packing and storing Christmas decorations.

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