How do you prepare your house for the decorations?

[StripedOss]

We've a small house, very poky, and rather cluttered.

i'm a christmas hog, i love it, but i'm always limited for space for displaying things.

How do you prepare your house? do you tidy, declutter, store stuff for christmas season?

And also, how do you decorate the house? Just a tree, or do you do other stuff?

I'm tidying up and decluttering. Plus getting all the cobwebs and cleaning all skirting boards thoroughly.
My big jobs are to clear and dust the dresser and to get DH to clear his massive pile of post.
This year we're having garlands made by me and ds as well as our usual stuff.

I'm moving house a week before christmas so will have no clutter just all our christmas tat out in the new place

I clean it. And majorly dust the living room, under the sofas etc - to cope with a moths worth of glitter, and fluff and bits of the tree and wrapping paper and chocolate smears and all that crap.

Yes Cat....that's what I keep telling myself.....over and over and over again