Your Christmas Tree

[Katzpur]

When do you put yours up, if you have one? What does it look like?

We put ours up about three weeks before Christmas. After years of fighting it, I finally broke down and got an artificial one. It was the best thing we ever did. I got so sick and tired of having a dead tree on Christmas morning, and here in Utah (where it is so dry), it's almost impossible to keep a real tree looking alive and well for more than a week or ten days at the most. Ours is totally eclectic. The more the variety to the ornaments, the better.

 

[jeffrey]

Put ours up yesterday! real, about 7 feet tall, got it all lit up. On hardwood floor, so it's easy to sweep up the needles. I love the way it makes the house smell like pine. Of course the kids love to decorate it!

 

[ChrisP]

We have a live one that started as a seedling. and is now about as tall as my little brother (6foot3) lots of needles but it doesn't dry up!

 

[Katzpur]

Put ours up yesterday! real, about 7 feet tall, got it all lit up. On hardwood floor, so it's easy to sweep up the needles. I love the way it makes the house smell like pine. Of course the kids love to decorate it!

But I'll bet that in Kentucky, it doesn't die by Christmas! I love real trees because of the wonderful smell, too. That's why I refused to go artificial for so many years.

 

[Katzpur]

We have a live one that started as a seedling. and is now about as tall as my little brother (6foot3) lots of needles but it doesn't dry up!

Uh... How does that work? Is this an outdoor tree of some kind? Surely you can't bring it inside every year! You must have had to plant it in a permanent spot somewhere. I'm baffled.

 

[ChrisP]

Uh... How does that work? Is this an outdoor tree of some kind? Surely you can't bring it inside every year! You must have had to plant it in a permanent spot somewhere. I'm baffled.

Endure Bafflement no more: We keep it in a realllllly big pot. and yus yus yus, it does in fact live in the living room for a week or 2

 

[Katzpur]

Endure Bafflement no more: We keep it in a realllllly big pot. and yus yus yus, it does in fact live in the living room for a week or 2

Wow! That is really cool! It must be a HUGE pot!

 

[ChrisP]

Wow! That is really cool! It must be a HUGE pot!

I'll see if I can find a picture. It's not that big to me, but I'm a big fella!

The one in the middle at the front's about the same size.

 

[jonny]

I had some girls come over and decorate mine on Monday. The decorations I have are kind of girly so I don't like decorating it. Last year I put it up on November 1st so I'm a little late this year.

 

[Aqualung]

We always put up our tree really late. I played basketball, and it was hard finding a weekend where we could go out and cut ours down, because I always had practice or games. We usually ended up getting it the weekend before. Then we decorated it the next day, and we always ate summer sausage and egg nog. A couple years ago, we stopped decorating it except for the lights. I just hated wasting all that time to decorate a tree and then have to undecorate it so soon. My brother didn't mind so much, and so he took charge of putting lights on it every year. Now that me and my brother are gone, we're not even getting a tree this year.

 

[michel]

Our older son's birthday is on the 8th December; to keep his birthday totally separate fro Christmas, we never put the tree up until the 15th.

(and that is a fake one, I hate to admit).

 

[ChrisP]

I had some girls come over and decorate mine on Monday. The decorations I have are kind of girly so I don't like decorating it. Last year I put it up on November 1st so I'm a little late this year.

November???? Like Christmas a bit Jonny?

 

[anders]

I got tired of vacuuming in my former relationships, so I haven't had a tree for years. And my new love isn't into celebrating Xmas, which suits me fine. We'll just visit my relatives and look at their rather secular trees, and then perhaps go East to celebrate the Chinese New Year with her folks.

 

[jonny]

November???? Like Christmas a bit Jonny?

A little. :woohoo:

I left it up until May one year...but I did everything but the lights off it (we called it our "house tree")

 

[Aqualung]

A little. :woohoo:

I left it up until May one year...but I did everything but the lights off it (we called it our "house tree")

I hope you have a fake tree!

 

[ChrisP]

I hope you have a fake tree!

Maybe he enjoys the beautiful aroma of decaying flora? :biglaugh:

 

[Aqualung]

Maybe he enjoys the beautiful aroma of decaying flora? :biglaugh:

And that lovely brown colour of dead pine.

 

[Evenstar]

Back in England my tree would go up on my daughters birthday 18 Dec, but people here put up their trees after Thanksgiving, which is real cool......

As I love getting my tree up..... Also I love Christmas, I think im worse than the kids.​

 

[jonny]

I hope you have a fake tree!

Trees don't get any faker than my tree.

 

[ChrisP]

And that lovely brown colour of dead pine.

Hey, as a Daoist I feel obliged to defend the beauty of nature here!!!

It's not dead... it's energy is just transforming