Ok, OK I confess. The other day I broke down and bought my first X-mas stash at work. We got some runners in, with lights and a cabin on each end. It never made it to the wall, got it right out of the box.
It's going very well at work, i get to (well almost insist on ) hanging the dmc yarn on the wheel, hehe. I can do about 4 skeins at a time (box of 12) and stretch the experience as far as I can timewise. It's always exciting to see what the next colour will be and get a glimpse in my inner eye of what I can do with it while hanging it up :-)