re: #50 RealityBasedSteve

You know, think about the great price you can get on strings of lights right after Christmas. Darn near giving them away. Balance that against the time and effort to take the old ones off, try to roll them up, untangle them the next year. On a Cost / Benefit analysis basis it might actually be the smart play.

RBS

That cost analysis has been done and if you are hiring someone to decorate and undecorate your trees (as a business or public space might) it is generally cheaper to decorate them and then throw everything out and start fresh the next year rather than pay people to do it, as well as the cost of space for storing the stuff.