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I want this tree!
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― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

LOL I THOUHGT THIS THREAD WAS ABOUT BOOBIES

― nklshs (nklshs), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I used to go live tree, but this year I'm kicking it with a 3 ft plastic tree with fiberoptic lights, fluctuating christmas!

― nklshs (nklshs), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

In the live and learn category: One year I cut one out in the woods and it smelled just like cat urine. I can't heartily recommend this variety of fir. For the last 15 years or so we have put a real tree on our front porch which can be seen clearly through the living room and kitchen windows. It stays up / lights on until winter is over. No ornaments; just lights.

― Wench (jim wentworth), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

We are often away over Christmas, and so a real tree just seems a little pointless, hence our trusty little fake one which gets so laden with decorations that you can't actually tell what's under all the baubles and bows. We always had a real one when I was a kid, even though my ridiculously-placed birthday meant it didn't go up until 6 days before Christmas.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

always had a fake one growing up, always had a real one when i lived with my ex. one year we bought a live tree, an alberta spruce, because we didn't want to kill a tree for a hoiday. then we went and planted it on some property her mother owned on a lake outside of jackson, michigan.

since i've been living alone again i don't bother. i know it's christmas time, i don't need another empty symbol of a holy day for a religion i renounced.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I love real trees. I love the smell and how there's always kind of a bare patch you have to turn to the wall. As for what kind of tree, other family members who have stronger preferences pick, but for the last couple years it's just been whatever's left in the nearest lot 3 days before Christmas.

― Maria, Monday, 27 November 2006 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link

We're never home at Christmas, either, so we don't get a tree but I always buy a wreath to hang up inside so our house smells good.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link

We haven't had room for a real tree for several years. We hung ornaments on the ficus one year, and last year Mr. Jaq brought home a scraggley little tree in a pot which did not survive the affection of the cats. This year, I want one of the 18" tall rosemary "trees" our local hardware stores are carrying. And we'll put a real wreath on the door and drape some greenery down the banisters maybe.

Most of our ornaments are brightly colored plastic bugs, sea creatures and banana slugs from Archie McPhee. In the past, the angel was an inflatable penguin with strap-on wings.

― jaq (jaq), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

It'd be cooler if you used a penguin with a strap-on.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Fake.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Our real ones were great for a few years when I was younger and my big brother used to work for the Forestry Commission. We had a teensy wee real one a couple of years back that was a present from my boss, but it died really quickly when we planted it out our back garden :-/ I usually have a couple of real poinsettas though.

Once, when my parents were between houses, they put fairy lights and tinsel on my dad's biggest golf trophy. Weirdos.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link

She fell off the tree when we tried it, MsMis.

― jaq (jaq), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link

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