Needless needles again.

I ought to take my Christmas tree down. I've removed the large garland in the lounge that threatened the life of everyone over 5' 2"/ I've unthreaded the rather tasteless tinsel which I threaded through my curtain eyelets and I've dispensed with the golden garland around my very nice picture over the fire place. But the tree is going to make such a mess and although I'm used to mess, it usually happens gradually as people leave things where they shouldn't be left, rather than me deliberately doing it. I bought some of that 'drapey' tinsel and draped it and when I undrape it, some of it is going to jam the vacuum cleaner. My tree is fake but the needles still drop off. My tree is in a corner. It's a whole tree but instead of putting the branches all the way round as is customary, I take the ones from the back and intersperse them round the front to make the tree look more fulsome. (I do love the word fulsome, as long as it is not applied to me.) I fasten the extra branches with those cable ties which when you tighten them up are impossible to slide a pair of scissors inside and wont snap unless you desperately need them not to. When you have just fought with an entire rose bush and gathered the branches in your now bleeding hands so you can fasten them together - then the cable ties snap. When you want to dismantle your fulsome tree, they don't snap. I would use my teeth, but thanks to Thornton's Special Toffee, I have fewer of those every Christmas.
Remembering the order in which you put your lights and your tinsel on the tree is a crucial factor in successful dismantling. I use a net of lights and throw it over the tree before applying baubles and tinsel.  Trying to get the two spikey thin metal wires back inside a bauble when the top has pinged off, is another challenge I do not relish. It is another of the many jobs that make your fingers bleed at Christmas.
I have decided to leave my tree up for another day.