Christmas Blanket

I've never been a fan of the Christmas tree. Some people like them, but it always seemed such a pointless exercise to me. Go get a tree (or buy a fake one), move all your furniture around, stick the tree in your living room (where, if real it serves as a fire hazard and drops needles into your carpet), decorate it garishly, leave it up for a month and then take it down and dispose of it.

So, one of my first ideas for modifying Christmas was to eliminate the tree in favor of a Christmas Blanket. The blanket would be circular, and designed to occupy roughly the same amount of floor space as a tree. If you wished, you could decorate the blanket with little patches or other fabric ornaments, perhaps add a new patch every year if you were so inclined. You'd pile the gifts up on the blanket (more room, because there's no tree in the way). Then, on Christmas Eve, you'd pull a drawstring and close the blanket up into a big Santa's Sack that contained all your presents!

When Christmas is over, you just fold up the blanket and put it away for next year. Much simpler!