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Christmas Tree Poll
Topic Started: Dec 13 2010, 01:27 PM (527 Views)
CTPianotech
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Fake! Looks good enough, cheap, no needle mess, and I don't have a good enough nose to smell a 'real tree' anyway. :D
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Luke's Dad
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Now I've got to give the anti-happy tree Christmas Tree Story.

The first year M&M's and I are married for Christmas, she was 9 months pregnant and ready to go. And I mean she was ready to go. She could go at any minute type of pregnant. With everything else going on, (resolving issues from my mother's death a few months before and all kinds of other stuff), we decided to kind of forego that first year. No tree, no decorations. Just the two of us relaxing while we had the chance before Luke came along. Now this was mostly her deciding. I asked her over and over again if she was sure. She replied that there was no way that she could deal with all of the stuff necessary for "making Christmas", and she knew that I couldn't do it all myself, and was adamant that she just wanted to go out for dinner and exchange gifts. That was all. No family, no friends, and no holiday.

December 24th rolls around and my wife shows up at my work.

"Get into the car, now. We have to get a tree, lights, decorations, and the fixings for a full holiday ham feast for 12" because she had just invited six of our closest couple friends over for Christmas Dinner. I spent that entire afternoon doing two weeks worth of shopping and setting up, while she went through and completely scrubbed down the apartment. It was already in good shape from the two times we had worked on getting it ready for the baby, but she went above and beyond. By the time she was done, you could eat off anything in that apartment. We were finished around 2:00AM, then she started preparing the feast. By 3:00PM on Christmas Day, our apartment was the definition of a holiday home. Tree, garland, mistletoe, poinsettas, and a feast truly fit for making merry were all prepared. Everybody showed up at 3:30, and dinner was prepared to begin at 4:00. It was at 3:38 that her mucous plug went, and we were off for the hospital. As it turns out, she wasn't in labor and never did go until she was induced on January 2nd. But essentially all the work that she and I put in because of her nesting instinct (she insists it wasn't, but it's so obvious that's what was going on) was essentially wasted as we never got to have the dinner and most of the food was ruined (over cooked or left out).

Over all, it was one of the best 2-3 Christmas' I've ever had.
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kenny
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Fake.
2 feet tall.
50 cents at a garage sale.
Works fine, year after year, after year.
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ilm
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Fake and pre-lit 4 ft tall, cost $29.00, this will be the 5th year with this tree.

I read in a magazine that back in the old days, little trees were what people had in their homes.

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blondie
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Fake, 2.5 ft tall, pre lit, pre decorated, folds up and stays in the front closet 352 days of the yr.
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George K
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blondie
Dec 13 2010, 07:13 PM
Fake, 2.5 ft tall, pre lit, pre decorated, folds up and stays in the front closet 352 days of the yr.
It's out for that long?

Wow.
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Frank_W
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Great story, LD! :)
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Nobody's Sock
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real deal. noble fir preferred.

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
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jon-nyc
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None here.


Who choose 'other'?
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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John D'Oh
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Fake, 10 years old. Looks fine to me. Mrs. D'Oh put it up yesterday.

The first couple of years we had it we had to take it down as the cat savaged it so regularly, and would climb up the inside of the branches. Now that she's older and wiser, it stays up.
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1hp
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Noble fir - 6 foot tree costs us $39.99 at Home Depot.

Currently trying to bring the 3 outdoor deer back to life (they're in Santa's workshop as my wife tells it) - have started restringing them with LED lights. Pain in the <explictive> - hopefully the LED lights will be more reliable over the years.
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brenda
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1hp
Dec 14 2010, 07:50 AM
Noble fir - 6 foot tree costs us $39.99 at Home Depot.

Currently trying to bring the 3 outdoor deer back to life (they're in Santa's workshop as my wife tells it) - have started restringing them with LED lights. Pain in the <explictive> - hopefully the LED lights will be more reliable over the years.
Getting to know those deer rather well, 1hp?

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