AIBU to polish my baubles ?

[Fidgety31]

Before you pack your tree and decorations away - do you polish/wipe them all down ?

I do this every year but it is time consuming . My tree has only been up for three weeks . It’s real so gets thrown out but the decorations all get kept . And when I did have a fake tree I would hoover it before putting it away .

AIBU - to polish them all?

Yes.

If any really needed it I'd do it before they went on the tree next Christmas.

No. It wouldn't even occur to me to wipe them before I put them up or when I took them off.

I have never, ever polished my baubles or hoovered my tree!! It just gets packed up and put away.

Can I just ask about your tinsel and fairy light etiquette?

YANBU.

I'm not sure it's entirely necessary to do it but you aren't unreasonable to choose to do so.

I’ve never polished a bauble in my life.

Would it not make more sense if anything to wipe or polish them before you put them up next year. You're doing it now only for them to lie in a box for almost a year

Same. If I had to think about it, if they every needed doing then surely it would be when they come out of storage as they’ll get dusty over the year?

Mine's not even getting stripped - it's fake so I'm going to tie a couple of big bin bags over the entire thing, tie them, and it can live in the cupboard until next year.

@Createausername1970 I shake the tinsel outside to get any dust off .
The fairy also gets a gentle wipe so as not to disturb her glitter .

Everything is stored away in containers inside a big plastic box so I don’t think it gets dirty whilst packed away . I do always check with a wipe first though

It's a bit weird op, will you polish them again when you get them out?

Oh to have such time on my hands!

But then maybe less time here would help 🤔

My poor fairy has never had a wipe down in about 25 years of use! I am beginning to feel a bit bad about that now. Her arm dropped off a few years ago. I wonder if that was some kind of protest?

Oh help yet another failing of mine ! I’ve never polished my baubles nor hoovered the tinsel, it has never crossed my mind that I should be!
But then I have a toilet brush , and wear my shoes in the house so there’s clearly no hope for me ..

How dusty is your house?! I've never done this and my decorations shine. If an individual decoration ever looked like it needed a wipe I would give it one, but it's not happened yet

No, I have a job.

@MasterBeth I also work full time and a single parent . That’s not the issue though !

That’s hilarious! How dirty do they get? I’ve never polished any decoration!

Good grief, no.

I've never witnessed my baubles acquire any horrific build-up of dust and grime during the three weeks or so that my tree's up and they get stored in a closed plastic box.

YANBU. I wish I had the time and energy for it. I don't. If one looks a bit dusty I'll give it a wipe before I hang it next year. Next Christmas me can fend for herself, this one's knackered.

What? Never even occurred to me

All mine are wrapped in tissue paper and go into a wooden box where they have lived for 30 years. They get wiped down if required.

Fuck me, no!! I've never polished a bauble or hoovered a Christmas tree in my life and won't be starting now.

Do you really like making work for yourself unnecessarily like that? 🤣

No. I wrap my entire tree with clingfilm with the lights and baubles still on. Genius or lazy, depending on how you look at it but it saves so much time! 😂

No never wiped a bauble. I may have given some tinsel a shake.

But how long does that take you? My tree is down already, and it took me 4 fekking hours. I am a bit particular about putting everthing back away in it's correct box and I had loads of lights which decided to be a pita to get off this time.

My tree gets dusty though. This time when I put it up, I wore latex gloves. Only because I'd just had my nails done, but the dirt on the gloves was quite a shocker. I've had the tree 25 odd years though. I just went with oh it's OK now as all the muck came off onto the gloves.

Maybe I should clean it this year.....