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Have a Christmas Tree? Real or Artificial?
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FoxyKaye said:
I remember one year my father bought a live tree, then planted it in the front yard after Christmas. We decorated it outside a few years for the enjoyment of our neighborhood, but then one December it disappeared -- someone had come along one night and cut it down!
Talk about your Christmas spirit.
I could maybe understand if we lived in a poor area, but it was a pretty solidly middle-class subdivision. Guess it's true, you can't buy class...
G5Unit said:
Hear Hear, but I haven't had a Christmas Tree in about 5 years... maybe that will change this weekend
we always had a real tree up until last year when we got a fake plastic one
i miss the smell of a real tree....
i miss the smell of a real tree....
Fake. The newer ones usually look better than real trees, come prelit, are cheaper, cleaner, and easier to move. I guess the only disadvantage is the lack of pine smell. I guess that's what air freshener is for, though my house don't stink.
Lau said:
That's what they do around these parts.
Keep it real bruva! The smell is second only to new Macs for nasal stimulation. Mmm...
I've never been one for Christmas decorations myself, but now that I'm cohabiting I have no choice. Miss Jaffa Cake frog-marched me down to Woolworth's earlier this evening and I am now the proud owner of a 3ft fibre optic Christmas tree. It's currently positioned in all its multi-coloured flashing glory in our window, where I fear it'll disorientate and confuse passing pilots on their way into the nearby airport.
Bah humbug!
Bah humbug!
We got a nice big fake one about 10 years ago. Some people may not like it, but it looks perfect every year, and you don't have to clean up pine needles.
Plus, I have 7-8 evergreens in my front yard if I want to look or smell one.
Plus, I have 7-8 evergreens in my front yard if I want to look or smell one.
My parents picked-up a fiber optic tree a few years ago. Looks great and they/we hardly add any extra lighting. The main lighting bulbs is strung around the living room ceiling all year round.~Shard~ said:Indeed - not very traditional - but interesting...
I'm politically incorrect enough to call it a Christmas tree, but not festive enough to actually have one.
My family has always had a fake one, but this year apparently we're gonna put a real one upstairs and the fake one downstairs
Real one, but it's only about one foot and a couple inches high and has only six or so little branches. My wife and I bought it for our first Christmas together in our apartment for about $2. It's now 2 years later and it's much bigger. Our plan is to keep it through our lives and every year it will get bigger. It's already much bigger than last year, when the ornaments almost killed it.
For the timebeing, it's still too small to hang the heavy ornaments on, but this year it supports the light tin ones we bought in Mexico on our honeymoon and a few other little ones without any trouble.
For the timebeing, it's still too small to hang the heavy ornaments on, but this year it supports the light tin ones we bought in Mexico on our honeymoon and a few other little ones without any trouble.
I grew up with real trees, but I've come to feel like it's not such a swell idea to cut down a tree (whether they grow in a "harvest" or not), put it up in my house for a few weeks, then toss it in the trash. The whole thing just reeks of typical US wastefullness to me.
I don't really do any x-mas decorations at all, actually... again, it's that mentality of owning and having to store a bunch of crap that only gets taken out once a year. What's the point?
Of course, I live in an apartment w/ limited storage space and a cat who would destroy any out-of-the-ordinary adornments to the palce... perhaps I'll change my tune if I ever own a house.... not about the tree, though.
ND
I don't really do any x-mas decorations at all, actually... again, it's that mentality of owning and having to store a bunch of crap that only gets taken out once a year. What's the point?
Of course, I live in an apartment w/ limited storage space and a cat who would destroy any out-of-the-ordinary adornments to the palce... perhaps I'll change my tune if I ever own a house.... not about the tree, though.
ND
joepunk said:
Cool - yeah, I think those fiber optic ones look pretty neat.
And I don't really care either - it will always be a "Christmas Tree" as far as I'm concerned.
Actually, I had a really small one in my room several year ago. It had mini lights, tinsel, some small decorations, several of my late mothers earrings, and a little ALF thingy~Shard~ said:Cool - yeah, I think those fiber optic ones look pretty neat.
And I don't really care either - it will always be a "Christmas Tree" as far as I'm concerned.
. I gave basically gave the base tree to my fathers work so they could us it. I do miss the fresh smell of pine. It off set the very faint cigarette smoke smell from my late mother.
Now, I just settle for an image on the desktop/a website.