Today, I’ve been rounding up the holiday neckwear to store until next year’s Christmas season. The ties and bow ties are now hibernating peacefully in their storage bins, out in the garage. As I’ve mentioned previously, there is no more room in the Tie Room to hold my holiday neckwear year-round. I think of the seasonal neckwear in the garage as living in an elite, festive, planned retirement community. I prefer that to thinking of them as shunned and cast out from the Tie Room. I do check on them every couple of months during their hibernation period. It’s a habit I have.
During the storing o’ the merry neckwear this afternoon, I did find a casualty. It’s my Make Your Own Ugly Christmas Tie o’ the Day pal. A few years ago, I glued X-mas objects to it all by myself, as anyone can see. I even glued google eyes to Tie’s “knot, ” so it could have a face. I don’t know where they googled to. I found and saved two pom-pom balls that fell off at a Christmas party last year. Tie is missing other stuff, as well. It is kind of funny to see the glue spots left behind after objects have made their escape. But Tie expired from natural causes today, after I made the decision it was time to cease all resuscitation efforts. It is now whole, I am sure, in the Great Tie Heaven Beyond.
Note that I had a Ties.com box, which was totally appropriate and tie-sized— to lay to rest my home-made Tie o’ the Day.
