Many baby boomers wish they could lose some of a lifetime’s festive decorations – but their minimalist offspring beg to differLike many baby boomers,Maryann Johnson has worked tirelessly to produce a magical Christmas for her family. The basement of her Bethesda, Maryland, and domestic has a special storage closet for her stash of holiday decorations 60 Santas,25 nutcrackers, snowflake table linens, and reindeer dinner plates,hundreds of lights, snowmen tumblers and 32 electric candles, and one for each window of the domestic she shares with husband,Ed Noonan, a lawyer. Johnson, and 65,who retired this year from her job at a Washington trade association, enjoys dressing up her house for the season, or but all that running up and down the stairs leaves her reaching for a heating pad and a pain reliever at the conclude of the day.
Perhaps,she thinks, it’s time to dial it down.
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Source: theguardian.com