horatio said:

theres a house down the street from me that looks like Woolworths has thrown up its xmas dept all over it, and they've not even got kids !

jami0mckay said:

Woolworth stores still exist! I thought they we gone since the late 80s?

paintedlady said:

they must have forgotten about the UK when they all closed then

jami0mckay said:

I live in historic area, and some of these houses (much larger than my modest home) have real greenery with those old giant colored light bulbs around their doors and porticos. It looks totally like the era of the home. A bit like a christmas or a post card. So I feel I have to do something. They get people to come out with lifts to twist white lights around all thier trees.
I can't imagine the bill.

horatio said:

yeah I like the old fashioned dickensian christmas look, mind you I also like watching Scrooged every year!

We have always had artificial trees, one year I decided I wanted to have a real tree but I bring it home and it had bugs in it, even after watering it down, I hate bugs, so never again did I buy a real tree. This year I got a real small tree and its pink!

veronikka said:

:goinghometoochecktreeforgiantbugs:

jami0mckay said:

horatio said:

That is what I used to do..buy potted ones and then plant them. They can be tricky though.

jess555ja said:

This is our tradition exactly. I hated waiting till mid-night as a kid. But as an adult I love staying awake drinking, laughing, talking, eating till mid-night!!

Oh, and our tree is real, we put it up on Sunday!! I just need a wreath now, I have not had a chance to make one. I usually buy the greenery part pre-made and then add my own pinecones, ribbon, bow, and the like myself.

PaisleyPark5083 said:

I used to make those at a flower shop for cemeteries.

We probably aren't going to have one. We're going to be gone from 12/21/07 to 1/02/08. The house is already decorated really great, but there's no point to a tree.

But we'll probably let the kids put small ones in their rooms. And this might be the perfect Christmas to tell my 11- and 14-year-olds the "birds and the bees" about Christmas.

horatio said:

you like picking on me don't you? you made christmas wreath's for cemetary flower shops?

All 3 of mine are fake.

JuliePurplehead said:

But your boobs are real. Oh wait that's another thread.

PaisleyPark5083 said:

Ours is artificial.



I am all about the real trees. I love the smell. I love going to the farm, picking it out, cutting it down....

But, it did get to be quite a pain in the ass. I still would prefer a real tree. Maybe I can hire a "tree person" next year.

OMG. The very first year I was married we went out to buy our tree and I wanted the biggest, fullest tree I could find. We got it home and then realized we didn't own a stand. So, I rush out to the store only to find that the only kind they had was a cheap plastic thing. I didn't know any better so I bought it. Got home and then realized that you have to cut off the little branches at the bottom so it would fit. That's all fine and dandy except when you don't own anything sharper than a butter knife.


So, my husband sawed for a few hours with a butter knife to get the little branches off. We finally get the dumb tree in the stand only to discover that the stand wasn't sturdy enough to hold up such a large tree. We had to prop it up against the wall. Our neighbor came over and we were sitting and talking and it fell on him.


We were such idiots.

All the real ones Ive seen this year just passing by, are quite obviously painted green.

mine is fake, from the reject shop. I drove past a couple of roadside tree sellers, but they looked so bedraggled out in the heat

hokie1 said:

That was really funny!!

We have a real tree 7.5 feet tall. Its gorgeous and decorated with a red, gold, white and sliver theme. I have a thing for angels and all things celestial so we have a angel, & sun, moon and stars theme. We also have the traditonal whimsical santas, snowmen, nutcrackers,.. ect also. I love my tree

I will never get a fake tree, gotta have a real one!!!

BTW, we had a huge tree last year also, In a rickety old metal rusted stand (we got a big sturdy plastic one now)....and it fell on my evil bitch ass mother in law... LMAO!!!! I AM SO BAD. I should not laugh but it was hilariously funny. She ended up leaving my house and going to her other sons house because all these things kept happening in the house she thought evil spirits were trying to get her I think. It was crazy!!

hokie1 said:

that made me laugh out loud

ZombieKitten said:

wheres Port Douglas?

fake

fake. i actually prefer fake trees. pay once. use it for 100 years.

Three real ones!

I don't do fake

jami0mckay said:

I bet they hang their tinsel on palm trees there!

jami0mckay said:

I aim to provide the best comic relief possible. Wait until I tell you my story about how I killed our tree with bleach.

hokie1 said:

can I just say I've not seen a thread to put this in but It made me laugh and I can't wait any longer !