Will you help?

The weather was nice for quite a while and when people heard it was going to get cold, they started to remove the Christmas decorations.  I think back of all the years we decorated really well.  We wanted to be sure Santa could find us.  We had the Snowman, candles at the door, Santa and the reindeer and lots of lights.  Yes, the good old days of dragging all the decorations out, putting them where they look good, then going in the house and decorate even more.  Sometimes the kids would help put all the thing out and sometimes it was just easier to do it ourselves.  After the holidays are done the decorations need to come down.  I make a plan and let everyone know when we are going to put everything away.  Suddenly, that day I live alone!  Not a person to be found.  It's like a UFO came down and took them.  Where did everybody go?  So I fool them, I tell them a day and usually the day before that I tell them "Let's take all the decorations down now!"  They know I got them because they don't have plans for today!  Yes sometimes it does work.  So now that the kids are grown and gone, I just don't put as much up.  This way, I'm not stuck doing all this myself.  There were times I could outsmart them!.....