Offer her praise for her ability to get the job done.
Negotiate. When completed take her to dinner, or if you cook prepare a nice dinner for the two of you to enjoy together.
You might make the suggestion: Let’s complete this job together Take the time while packing away the pieces to talk about what each means to the two of you. If you’ve children old enough, get them involved as well. To pack away Christmas to prepare for the next year is never a joyful event. But it could be an event that members of the family will not forget.
If there is no satisfactory answer - then be a man who doesn’t need a woman to do tasks which anyone can accomplish.
If this is only an opportunity to extend a pity party for months on end - then I sincerely apologize for taking you seriously.
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
....Margaret Thatcher
Indeed.
We’ve called a family/friend gathering for the August eclipse, since we are right on the path near Salem, Oregon.
We’ll do a ceromonial repackaging then.