I've just done the Xmas lights..........

[cozietoesie]

.......and I may need to recover. Every year, I swear, I put the lights away untangled and every flipping next year, I get them out and they're a MESS.

I feel your pain. DH and I did the decorations today, 4 lots of lights = DH very close to cancelling Christmas. All the while he was muttering 'I didn't put them away like this'.....

We survived - just!

I wrap mine round a piece of cardboard now after I had an utter meltdown some years ago.
Now I unwrap them single handed - other hand holding the obligatory sherry/ amaretto etc - whilst dancing round the tree and feeling extremely smug.
Please try it when you put them away then you too can enjoy the utter smugness that comes from being tangle free.

Don’t worry, I packed mine away neatly last year and they still ended up a tangled mess in the process of applying said lights to tree. It usually goes quite smoothly but this time it almost broke me. I came close to letting DH do it but after about 30 seconds I knew I couldn’t bare to watch it all being done wrong