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Us -- real... in fact, just picked up ours this afternoon... and guess what... so tall, I had to cut off about 2-1/2 feet of branches off the top... it was a LOT shorter when we saw it at the school! Then... Christmas Tree FAIL! It went off balance, crashed over, across the family room and onto my desk.
OH NO! I hope that you managed to restore order and magic!
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Trees...plural at our house.
We have a ledge over our front door on which we place a small fake tree that we've owned for 23 years. DD gets up on the ledge and decorates it with blue and silver.
We also own a 9' prelit fake tree that is usually in our family room, but this year was set up in our front foyer (in place of our grandmother clock) with new ornaments in gold and red.
This year, for the first time ever, we bought a real tree, to put up in our family room. It's 7' tall and is decorated with all our family keepsake ornaments. We get new ones for the kids each year, plus the ones I got as a kid, plus the homemade stuff made over the years, and any gift ornaments we've received. Very eclectic.
And there is one more fake tree up in the attic, that we did not use, and probably needs to be given to charity or the trash truck (a bunch of pre-lit lights don't work).
Fake. 6.5 ft, prelit. I'm hoping to get a taller one on the after Christmas mark downs, though! I have 9' ceilings and a TON of ornaments, so a bigger one would be WONDERFUL! My oldest son wants to get a real one next year, though, so we'll see what happens!
Oh, and we also have two little trees, one in each of the boys rooms. Plus a Charlie Brown tree in my oldest son's room and two pretty ones on the porch. Hmmm, I kinda think I may be a bit obsessive of Christmas trees! LOL!! Maybe I'm becoming a tree hoarder!
waiting to see if we are going to be at home for Christmas since it will be use hubby and I this year.
Was just talking about this with a friend. My DSIL doesn't put up a tree "because it just puncuates the fact that she lives alone." BFF and I were talking that we have ALWAYS put up tree, even when we lived alone - brings home the Christmas spirit. I say - at least put up a little one!
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Now the question is is your REAL tree live or dead, aka a cut tree?
Had this conversation about the FRESH wreaths that DS was selling for Boy Scouts. Uh, yeah, they are dead.....we're talking cut branches here folks.....not gonna grow anymore!!!
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Fake, 7.5 ft green pre-lit with white lights. It's glorious I only have to decorate the fron 2/3rds of the tree though because it sits in a corner, which is good, because I only have enough ornaments right now to do that much and make it look "full".
I had to buy a rotating tree stand to turn my tree so that I can fit all the ornaments on it! I have a lot.....I buy Christmas ornaments when I go on vacation and I have to buy a couple new ones every year! Plus I try to get one or two for DS to have when he finally goes out on his own....gonna be a few years tho...he is only 13 years old.
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Don't laugh, but I'm planning on keeping one of my little 2ft trees up all year from now on and just changing the seasonal decorations. After Christmas I'll do a Valentine Tree, then a Mardi Gras tree, followed by St Patrick's Day and Easter. I'm not sure about the summer . . . perhaps 4th of July and then birthday (mine) and then Halloween and Thanksgiving. Anybody think of a major holiday I left out? I'm planning to mostly do bows of a seasonal nature--cats kill ornaments. I'll do beads at Mardi Gras! The tree itself is black so it lends itself to any color scheme.
I do this at work. I have a 3 1/2 foot tree. Changes from Winter Tree to Valentine's Tree to St Patty's Tree to Easter Tree to Fourth of July Tree to Autumn Tree to Halloween Tree to Thanksgiving Tree to Christmas Tree and back to Winter Tree.
Once several years ago on the first day back after the New Year's holiday, I had a trooper give me heck about my Christmas tree....he said "You know it's not Christmas anymore" in the depressing, grumpy voice. I thought to myself, "Oh, you just messed with the wrong woman...." and that tree has been up and decorated ever since.
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Real. Can't duplicate the smell. Too tied to Charlie Brown I guess
Got one of those (a friend's mom gave it to me for my birthday) in addition to the 6 foot plus artifical tree my cat loves to lurk under.
Thinking about getting a small live potted tree to take out to my Dad's house for Christmas Day. He would probably enjoy keeping it alive til he could plant it outside come spring.
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Faux. In years past we always had a real one. We bought a fake prelit to put up last year upstairs. We had planned to go get a real tree to put down stairs - but we never did. This year I think it's just going to be the fake one. I'm booked every weekend until Christmas so I don't think I'll have time to decorate 2 trees. Though I may put the tree downstairs so we can enjoy it more. Who cares if the neighbors can see it better if it's upstairs!
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FAKE!! My husband is afraid a real tree would catch on fire while we aren't home. Anyway, it is 6.5ft and multicolor. Katie and My husband lie underneath it at night and look at the lights. We are putting it up on Thursday.
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Well, DH decided he wanted to put up the tree this year, even though we'll be gone over Christmas. It came with a diagram and all the branches are letter-coded. But did DH follow the diagram? Nooo. We have J's mixed up with K's, but it looks pretty good anyway. That was Saturday. Sunday we decorated it. I pulled out the ornaments and he hung them on the tree. Then I fixed them.
The dogs were all veeeeerrrrry interested in it when it first went up. We had the talk about "inside" and "outside" rules. I hope they were listening.
The tree does look very nice, but I still like my silver hotel-tree best.
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Fake and Fake.
Fake 7.5 foot 1,000 white-light "formal" tree in our Living Room picture window.
Fake 6.5 foot 500 white-and-multi-light "fun" tree in our Family Room.
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Had this conversation about the FRESH wreaths that DS was selling for Boy Scouts. Uh, yeah, they are dead.....we're talking cut branches here folks.....not gonna grow anymore!!!
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