Now comes the real struggle. Getting all this crap taken down and put away.
I wasn't envious of Steve's purple Hot Wheels tree until now.
We've had a skinny artificial tree for several years. With a little effort it will fit through a doorway fully assembled and decorated. It resides in a front bedroom walk-in closet for about 10-1/2 months a year. Goes up and down in minutes.
On the fireplace issue. I have one in the living room and one on the covered back porch. The one in the house just makes the rest of the house cold when it's used, so I try to keep the wife from burning a fire there. The one out back is to keep my cattle and oil wells warm during one of our twice a year ice storms down here in Texas.