It's a well known stress factor. You get the box of Christmas decorations down from the loft, open it up, and realise you hastily stuffed the fairy lights from the tree in there with no regard for how you'd untangle them next year.
How does it even get that tangled up from just staying in a box? No one knows, but you can bet it always happens.
But this year is different. If you're reading this, you're about to learn a hack that you'll be thankful for come next Christmas.