Putting away Christmas is never as fun as bringing it out. But there is still something very satisfying when you vacuum the floors after the last bauble and branch are put away – not to mention the reclaimed square footage once the tree is gone. And the live tree bonus? Thousands of pine needles sucked up into the vacuum cleaner mean that every vacuuming occasion for the foreseeable future will smell like the cardboard evergreen air fresheners you hang from a rearview mirror.