December 4th. I think this is the earliest our Christmas Tree has ever been up at my house. though, now that we bought a fake one, it's much easier to do whenever you want....there's driving out to a farm and chopping one down, bringing it home, forcing it into a shitty tree stand, etc.

Fake trees = .

Every family has to do the REAL TREE thing for a few years, but changing to Fake Trees happens eventually.

when i was a kid it used to piss me off so bad that we had a fake tree (later i learned it was because of moms alergies) but the last 3 years having to go out and get a real one and pay some snotty punkass boy scout at the firehouse 40 bucks for it makes me want a fake one.

we got one on Sunday, which is our earliest ever too. But I take mine down Jan 1. my in laws think im nuts, but they leave theirs up until around February-March (out of sheer laziness)

true

and I can't keep my dogs out of the tree water

if nothing else, the produce good songs

We've always had a real tree on my side of the family. After Christmas every year we'd let the stock of the tree dry out for a few months then cut it up into usable chunks of wood and my dad and I would then make ornaments out of it, then my mom and sister would decorate the ornaments. Now after 15 or so years of this we've got a lot of really cool home made ornaments all made from previous years Christmas trees. It's been a great tradition and its one I plan on doing with my kids as well.

For me, a real tree's the only way to go.

thats an awesome tradition. I might have to rethink my real tree resistance

my f@cking tree fell over yesterday.... yes it was real... water, broken ornaments, etc everywhere.

What kind of tree stands do you guys have?

Yeah, this is what happened. Last year was the first year we had the fake one. it killed me on the inside a little big

convo with my mom:
mom: "We're getting a fake tree this year."
me: "WHAT? Fake trees are terrible."
mom: "No, I saw this one at the store, it looks just like the real thing."
me: "Oh yeah? Does it smell like the real thing?"
mom: "I can buy a pine-scented candle."
me:

We put ours up the day after Thanksgiving...and don't take it down til like the end of the first week of January.

"Hey, it's a holiday! A time for joy and togetherness. But how can I make it more labor intensive?"
"You could put a tree in your living room."
"Badass."

i put it up the day after thanksgiving, and take it down sometime after my birthday, which is in the middle of february. it's a really, really pathetic fake tree, but it has seven or eight hundred lights on it, so it's awesome.

i've never had a real tree, and i don't mind. that just means i get to leave my tree up as long as i want.

fuck you all!

around thanksgiving i had to endure a conversation of people discussing for a good 15 minutes when the appropriate time is to put it up and when to take it down.

i thought this thread was about me

there's nothing more to be said

a peice of thread

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guminstead

or I could wish i made since

if i should

well... maybe i should comment relevently in response to THIS thread :



I don't know about Christmas tree's except... my mother and people in my family i've known often tis the seasonally put one up of their own and there are lights

a star atop

prettly sparkly thingsly

happily? bewildered I'd go to my room, mom'd call on me to help with the shiny things on the fake branches and needlies

ok so

Way to hijack the spirit of Christmas with your pagan symbols. Baby Jesus in crying right now because of you.