We usually put the Christmas tree in the space just north of the fireplace. In our Kaysville garage, the tan steel filing box that you see under this tree still (2003) protects all the papers that came with tools, appliances, and what-not.

I, personally and manually, hung each icicle on this tree. That’s how we always used to do it, before somebody’s lawyer decided the foil icicles were unsafe and anathematized them in favor of stupid cellophane ones that never would hang right.