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All-In [46816]
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How many Christmas trees do you have in your home?
Dec 3, 2018, 11:04 AM
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and why are you so poor?
2.5 in the FBCSC house hold. One in the front sitting room so the neighbors across the street can see it and be jealous. One in the living room with sentimental ornaments for my son to destroy. A small one in my daughter's room because she flipped out one year about not having one.
The trailer looks like a pine forest
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Oculus Spirit [81049]
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They'll look great when they are still up in April***
Dec 3, 2018, 11:10 AM
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All-In [46816]
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Throw a trash bag over them and put them in the corner
Dec 3, 2018, 11:11 AM
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done and done
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Heisman Winner [105525]
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8 or 9
Dec 3, 2018, 11:33 AM
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Seriously.
One real one, the big tree in the den.
Fake one for Clemson ornaments, got too many to put on big tree unless we got ENORMOUS tree.
Fake one in each kid room
Ceramic tree from my grandmother's house, those green ones that everyone used to have back in the day.
18" fake one in daughter's room, was her first tree and she likes to put it up.
Metal one on dining room table, some Crate & Barrel thing that we put up. This one may not count.
A fake purple one in the dining room but I THINK my wife is taking that to her office. It was bought by my grandmother for one of the grandkids. It is purple with orange lights. It is over the top, but we still use it.
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CU Medallion [55734]
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Depends on how you define "tree" but really, just one.
Dec 3, 2018, 11:36 AM
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Coupla "Charlie Brown" trees for the kids - lil'APMette loves her some Christmas.
But only one real tree.
UDP tip - bought a pre-lighted fake about 3 years back - best investment ever, and not even that expensive.
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Heisman Winner [105525]
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How much was it? We like cutting a tree, but TBH, it is
Dec 3, 2018, 11:40 AM
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getting really fooking annoying paying $50+ each year for a tree that dies before Christmas and is a pain in the assss to put up. I used to be VERY anti fake trees, but I am becoming more and more like a Grinch every year.
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CU Medallion [55734]
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Meh. Wanna say it was like $75 at Lowes.
Dec 3, 2018, 11:49 AM
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Whatever it was, we quickly decided that if it just lasted 2 Xmases we'd get back our investment (because $50-75 real trees). It is doing FINE and on Xmas #3 as we speak. Also, no allergies for Mrs. PAW.
The real tree smell, like new car smell, ain't worth it when you do the math.
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0***
Dec 3, 2018, 11:49 AM
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CU Medallion [55734]
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How many menorahs then? Oy.***
Dec 3, 2018, 1:03 PM
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2, by your maths. 1 full size, 2 half size
Dec 3, 2018, 11:52 AM
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all fake
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What idiot uses real christmas trees anymore?
Dec 3, 2018, 11:57 AM
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Is this 1980's? I bet it sheds all over their shag carpet
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One. 6ft tall sitting on 3.5ft tall table
Dec 3, 2018, 12:04 PM
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Cuz two kids under 4 will destroy that shizz.
Just one tree because UDR, and our trailer has a pretty open floor plan so tree can be seen from just about every room in the house.
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Zero***
Dec 3, 2018, 12:49 PM
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I have a 3' in a box in case
Dec 3, 2018, 12:57 PM
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a female decides to come over, so I won't be ridiculed or called a grinch. Has lights and everything already on it, can pop it up in about 2 minutes. I can also decorate a beautiful spruce in my yard if the need ever arose.
Single guys have absolutely no use for a tree in the house.
A couple weeks ago on here I went over holidays that wouldn't exist if men actually ruled the world, and Christmas is at the top of the list.
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Lot o points [155809]
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After 44 years of hard core tradition, I went fake tree this
Dec 3, 2018, 1:00 PM
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year.
It's glorious. I only regret not having all those years back watering trees, cleaning up needles, trying to get the @#$#@$ on straight, putting lights on...........
#realaintnodeal
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This was a good year to go artifical
Dec 3, 2018, 1:54 PM
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9 yrs ago we were in a recession. Farms weren't planting as many trees due to the unforeseen market. Here we are 9 yrs later and those trees are ready for harvest. The demand/supply effect has driven the price to around $15/foot
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Greenr fought his tree for about 30 minutes with the stand
Dec 3, 2018, 1:58 PM
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then realized the stand had a hairline fracture which made the tree gangsta lean...WifeofGreenr bore the brunt of the anger and she "politely" went to Lowe's to get a new tree stand. At one point in time, Greenr had thrown his tree out the front door with the broken stand. However, that MAY be where we the break in the stand came from.
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4. The main one in the living room, the small one in the den
Dec 3, 2018, 1:57 PM
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and 2 4' trees in the Sam cave, 1 of which she insists on leaving up year around (where did I go wrong?)
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If I had any input to the decision
Dec 3, 2018, 2:27 PM
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There would be zero. I know of at least 2 trees that are in display, but I haven't really looked nor kept count of any more. There are probably more.
I gotta be real here--in a house with no children, they isn't much sense of all this Christmas stuff. If it were just me, the house would look like what it does the rest of the year. And if we're being really real, I'm kinda over winter and the Christmas holidays* already.
*Holidays..as if. I'll get ONE DAY off (Christmas) this year, even though I have 142 hours of PTO remaining. I put in for time off last week and was told I can't take any days off because of a project. The part people are NOT recognizing is that most of the rest of the company will be off, and change controls are frozen, so there won't be getting chit done. Looks like I'll not so graciously donate my 3.55 weeks off to the Gods of PTO, because it just gets lost on Jan 1.
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you should have planned better***
Dec 3, 2018, 2:43 PM
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Oculus Spirit [81049]
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Funny you say that....
Dec 3, 2018, 2:46 PM
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I tried to take some of that time earlier in the year.
Was told the same thing then.
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that don't seem fair
Dec 3, 2018, 3:10 PM
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a friend of mine works for a shipping company and he has to submit time off now for all of next year.
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Oculus Spirit [81049]
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I 'm guessing it wouldn't have mattered if I did that.
Dec 3, 2018, 6:03 PM
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Still wouldn't have been able to take it.
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Oculus Spirit [78865]
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just ate one
Dec 3, 2018, 2:50 PM
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and let me tell you they are nasty
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just one, I paid $90 for it
Dec 3, 2018, 3:13 PM
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all of the ornaments lower than 3 feet have already been ripped off by the kids.
Greenr sounds like he had the same issue that I usually do with the stupid stand. I hate those things with a passion unparalleled anywhere in this universe.
I did keep it in the net and set it in the stand outside this year which made it mildly more tolerable. Well it was either that or the beers and xanax that kept me in check.
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Mrs. Tig has 3.
Dec 3, 2018, 3:25 PM
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I don't get involved with all that, as it would not serve my holy Krampus very well to display items of joy.
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