Looking back through the logs, it isn't hard to see where this Shambles started. 

I live in the land of Christmas trees. Washington. Just go outside to smell the cedar. Anyone beside me remember the old aluminum trees with the color wheels? That may be why I  never really got into Christmas. My Grandfathers real tree with the bubbler lights always looked so pretty.

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on November 26, 2017, 12:48:54 PM
Looking back through the logs, it isn't hard to see where this Shambles started. 

Excuse me, i reasemble that remark.


Wrote a funny reply this evening about something on here but had to resisit posting in case i was a little over the mark 

Well we have a fake tree, with fake snow, with Santa Claus wearing shorts and T-shirt and the air conditioning running at full blast so we can eat a hot cooked meal on a hot day when we would be better off with a salad.

Oh and send Christmas cards with snow scenes and warm fires burning with people wrapped up in scarves and big coats.

 I pre fir a Noble tree but usually cut a douglas down to be spruced up all pretty.
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Quote from: Cindy on November 26, 2017, 04:35:11 PM
Well we have a fake tree, with fake snow, with Santa Claus wearing shorts and T-shirt and the air conditioning running at full blast so we can eat a hot cooked meal on a hot day when we would be better off with a salad.

Oh and send Christmas cards with snow scenes and warm fires burning with people wrapped up in scarves and big coats.

I've heard about it being summer in Australia while it's winter everywhere else. I had never heard that before and i thought he was just messing with me until I googled it. That seems totally weird to me. Christmas in the summer? That just seems....wrong. Lol. But I suppose it's weird to him having Christmas in the winter.

Oh Julia, summer Christmas is weird, really, really weird... our Santa is depicted in Jandals or Gummies, but somehow it always seems better using the BBQ

And yes, it still has to be a real tree, even though it drinks litres of water a day...


Hohoho bah humbug,

Rowan

All I remember of real trees is having them in the room as a child and accidentally stepping on the needles and having to pull them out of my feet for weeks.

I've always used fake trees since. Always seemed a waste to me to hack one down for a few days in a year.

The last time we bought a real tree was two years ago. We got a live one, with roots. It is presently growing in our yard. Of course, we still use artificial trees. It seems obsurd to kill a tree. To me, it's like dressing up a corpse, and making it look all pretty.

Quote from: Julia1996 on November 26, 2017, 11:19:51 AM
That was one argument my dad had for a real tree, the smell. I told him I would get pine scented air freshener. He just shook his head and told me I was very cold and clinical about some things. I am not! I just don't like messes.

They make something called scentsicles that will make a fake tree smell real. They work pretty well. They hang on the tree like an ornament.

I'd prefer a real tree, but finding one that looks nice and fits in the spaces I've had available to put them is near impossible.  Also have traveled over the holidays so not always around to water etc.  So the artificial one usually wins.

And this little guy is full grown now and climbs even higher so there may be no tree this year.

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I seem to recall traveling one year and having a pointsetia as a tree....ahh good times.

Totally not hyjacking the thread.......

Quote from: Cenna on November 28, 2017, 03:27:51 AM
I seem to recall traveling one year and having a pointsetia as a tree....ahh good times.

LOL!  I had a roommate once who decorated a rubber plant instead of putting up a tree.   

Quote from: KathyLauren on November 28, 2017, 10:52:59 AM
LOL!  I had a roommate once who decorated a rubber plant instead of putting up a tree.   

Once when my grandparents visited Florida in December and took pictures of a palm tree decorated for Christmas. That's just wrong. Yuck!

Living in a student house once upon a time, I came home to a literal twig in a pot with tinsel wrapped around it that someone had put on top of the TV.

It had the effect of being 200% more depressing than no tree at all.

Quote from: Viktor on November 29, 2017, 07:24:49 PM
Living in a student house once upon a time, I came home to a literal twig in a pot with tinsel wrapped around it that someone had put on top of the TV.

It had the effect of being 200% more depressing than no tree at all.

They went full on 'charlie brown christmas'?! Thats kinda amazing actually..

My grandfather on my dads side used to always have a real tree, 10-12 feet tall and he was so OCD (runs in the family..) hed spend 10 days decorating it, finishing by placing each STRAND of tinsel one at a time..

Growing up we had fake trees. Because mess and because dogs and cats.

Neither really enhanced or detracted from christmas for me growing up. This will be the first year I go without a tree where Im 'living.' (Basically squatting while I move out of my apartment because reasons..)

Maybe Im sentimental but I have to have a tree. Doesnt have to be spectacular. Even a charlie brown christmas tree is something. Hell, the steel pole from seinfeld even..

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They did.

I would like a tree but at the moment there's almost nowhere for it to go. The apartment is bordering on Tokyo levels of spatial challenge.

I used to love real trees.  I even planted 250 Colorado spruce and balsam firs out back in hopes of using our own someday.  About 10 years ago, we did--a flawless 9" spruce.  It was the prickliest damn tree I ever met.  We had to decorate it with gloves on, and that barely helped.  In 2 weeks, it went full Charlie Brown.

I'm not really into Christmas anymore except in the Tim Minchin sense,

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Mostly, it's because I'm not into Jesus anymore, and the kids are grown.  Nevertheless, we still have a tree--a wonderful, fake tree.  It looks nice in the living room, and for the last 3 years we haven't had to step on needles whenever we're barefoot for the next 11 months, nor worry that the dog will want to pee against it when we're not looking.

Team Fake, I guess.

Quote from: Viktor on November 29, 2017, 07:24:49 PM
Living in a student house once upon a time, I came home to a literal twig in a pot with tinsel wrapped around it that someone had put on top of the TV.

It had the effect of being 200% more depressing than no tree at all.

A few years ago my dad had bought a tree my brother thought the tree was uneven and started cutting of branches. By the time he got done the tree looked like a 7 foot umbrella.  I nearly died laughing! When my dad saw it he got really mad and went out and bought another tree.

Quote from: Angela Drakken on November 30, 2017, 05:16:37 AM

Maybe Im sentimental but I have to have a tree. Doesnt have to be spectacular. Even a charlie brown christmas tree is something. Hell, the steel pole from seinfeld even..

Frank Costanza would be appalled, his pole was aluminum. It has a very high strength to weight ratio!

Quote from: rmaddy on November 30, 2017, 10:22:48 AM
I'm not really into Christmas anymore except in the Tim Minchin sense,

His song about prejudice was powerful and moving.

Food for thought:  they had a thing on the news this morning regarding real trees. The average live tree has an average of 2000 bugs living in it, mostly spiders and mites.