I went to put up the lights on Monday. Discovered that only 2.5 out of the 3 strings of lights we had even worked. (Yes, one only lit up halfway.) And they're not even the kind where 1 bad bulb knocks out the whole set.
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 - 3:57pm
Didn't put my tree up, just stockings. Last year one of our cats started eating the plastic needles and then throwing them up. There were numerous times the missus and I got in arguments over who had to clean it up. So this year I didn't put the tree up. I just have the stockings and the outside lights to take down.
Grinches! We do a real tree every year, although we were pretty late this year, getting it up just a week ago. Sometime after New Year's we'll go through the hassle of taking it out to Forest Park where they use trees for compost.
I would never think of depriving my daughter of helping us pick out a tree, or the free frozen custard she gets at Ted Drews, where we buy our tree every year.
We didn't either. But then, with 30+ cats in the house (lost count, probably more), it didn't seem like such a good idea. Although the pine needles spread to every corner of the house would help with the kitty smells.
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We did an artificial tree this year rather than our traditional real tree, and a day after she finished putting up decorations on the new tree my wife broke out in a terrible rash.
I don't know if was allergies to chemicals in the artificial tree or the Christmas tree gods sending punishment her way, but Christmas was not as holly and jolly this year, I can assure you.
We put ours up two weekends after Thanksgiving, so the day after Christmas it comes DOWN. We would have taken it down on Christmas, but we were too tired, and the living room was too big of a mess. After a month of watering, I can't wait to get it down, but once it's down, it's always a little bit empty feeling in the room. The cat misses having a real tree to hide under, too.
Lights outside can come down after the snow melts sometime in April.
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007 - 3:41pm
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We didn't even do a tree this year. With a 6-year old child, I felt like I had committed a sin. I'm a bad father.
Sadly, I tend to agree.
Rainsmercy wrote:
Didn't put my tree up, just stockings. Last year one of our cats started eating the plastic needles and then throwing them up.
Sounds like an excellent argument for getting a real tree!
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We had our tree up at the end of October, call us festive. I was working Boxing day so my better half had to do the post Xmas cleanup
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We had our tree up at the end of October, call us festive. I was working Boxing day so my better half had to do the post Xmas cleanup
I believe the acceptable standards are you can't put it up until advent and you don't take it down until that one church holiday where the three kings come.
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007 - 6:17pm
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wordsmythe wrote:
Rainsmercy wrote:
Didn't put my tree up, just stockings. Last year one of our cats started eating the plastic needles and then throwing them up.
Sounds like an excellent argument for getting a real tree!
Cats will eat the real needles and throw them up as well.
At least they won't get scurvy that way.
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I believe the acceptable standards are you can't put it up until advent and you don't take it down until that one church holiday where the three kings come.
That holiday is the Feast of the Epiphany, which is appropriate since most people tend to take the tree down when it finally crosses their minds.
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There's not enough bandwidth on a thousand Internets to detail what's wrong with that idea.
I believe the acceptable standards are you can't put it up until advent and you don't take it down until that one church holiday where the three kings come.
That holiday is the Feast of the Epiphany, which is appropriate since most people tend to take the tree down when it finally crosses their minds.
Thanks.
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Hopefully we'll get ours down today so that it can get picked up with our trash pickup tomorrow. Of course we still have Halloween decorations on the front door so we'll see how that goes.
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We've had our tree since the weekend following Thanksgiving. I'm worried that it's near the point of spontaneous combustion.
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Keeping with the old country's traditions, we remove the tree only after Jan 13th -- the "Old New Year Day" according to the Julian calendar that's still being used by Eastern Orthodoxy.
My father knew a man who thought it would be a good idea to get rid of his Christmas tree by feeding into his fireplace. His rationale being that as the top of the tree was consumed, he would be able to feed more and more of it in. Guess what.
All this science I don't understand. It's just my job five days a week.
I will take my tree down when it starts dropping needles, pretty much my my entire basis for that decision. It makes a really nice decoration, as I've inherited a number of very nice ornaments (which won't see the light of day for a number of years once I have rugrats of my own), not to mention it gives the house a pleasant smell.
Our tree went up on Saturday right before Christmas, and it'll come down the day after New Years. When the kids were littler we instituted a tradition of the tree and the presents arriving with Santa Claus on Christmas Eve so as not to spend two weeks keeping pets and houseapes out of everything. They would hang their stockings right before bed and my ex and I would bring out the tree and decorate it and the house after they were asleep. Now that they're older I don't have to worry about that so much, but my apartment is pretty small so we've sort of kept the tradition up.
We reuse our tree - the branches are sawed off and go to a yard waste mulcher, and the truck is kept in my storage shed to age and become the Yule log for the fireplace the next Christmas morning. You do have to be somewhat careful because the things are full of pitch and after a year of seasoning that thing will go up fast and hard. One year we had a white pine that nearly caused a chimney fire.
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I just got the danm thing up monday night... it comes down some time after next xmas!!!
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I took mine down before it was cool to even bring one up since I never even bought one.
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We didn't even do a tree this year. With a 6-year old child, I felt like I had committed a sin. I'm a bad father.
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I went to put up the lights on Monday. Discovered that only 2.5 out of the 3 strings of lights we had even worked. (Yes, one only lit up halfway.) And they're not even the kind where 1 bad bulb knocks out the whole set.
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wordsmythe wrote:
Oh Easter Tree, oh Easter Tree..
Didn't put my tree up, just stockings. Last year one of our cats started eating the plastic needles and then throwing them up. There were numerous times the missus and I got in arguments over who had to clean it up. So this year I didn't put the tree up. I just have the stockings and the outside lights to take down.
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Our lights are going up tonight after I hit the post-xmas sales this afternoon. We're decorating for our New Year's party. No tree though.
Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.
Grinches! We do a real tree every year, although we were pretty late this year, getting it up just a week ago. Sometime after New Year's we'll go through the hassle of taking it out to Forest Park where they use trees for compost.
I would never think of depriving my daughter of helping us pick out a tree, or the free frozen custard she gets at Ted Drews, where we buy our tree every year.
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I'm hoping to get the tree torn down this weekend. I've got to work the rest of the week, so I've got zero incentive to try to do it after work.
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Our tree will stay up until the new year when it will be picked up and become part of the Louisiana coastline.
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Ours will stay up for as long as we remain lazy. Hell, it could stay up until March and I wouldn't care.
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We didn't either. But then, with 30+ cats in the house (lost count, probably more), it didn't seem like such a good idea. Although the pine needles spread to every corner of the house would help with the kitty smells.
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We did an artificial tree this year rather than our traditional real tree, and a day after she finished putting up decorations on the new tree my wife broke out in a terrible rash.
I don't know if was allergies to chemicals in the artificial tree or the Christmas tree gods sending punishment her way, but Christmas was not as holly and jolly this year, I can assure you.
We put ours up two weekends after Thanksgiving, so the day after Christmas it comes DOWN. We would have taken it down on Christmas, but we were too tired, and the living room was too big of a mess. After a month of watering, I can't wait to get it down, but once it's down, it's always a little bit empty feeling in the room. The cat misses having a real tree to hide under, too.
Lights outside can come down after the snow melts sometime in April.
Sadly, I tend to agree.
Sounds like an excellent argument for getting a real tree!
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We had our tree up at the end of October, call us festive. I was working Boxing day so my better half had to do the post Xmas cleanup
Never violate a woman, nor harm a child.
Do not lie, cheat or steal.
These things are for lesser men.
Protect the weak against the evil strong.
And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into the pursuit of evil.
Cats will eat the real needles and throw them up as well.
Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
I believe the acceptable standards are you can't put it up until advent and you don't take it down until that one church holiday where the three kings come.
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PSN: BoogleGWJAt least they won't get scurvy that way.
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That holiday is the Feast of the Epiphany, which is appropriate since most people tend to take the tree down when it finally crosses their minds.
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Thanks.
There's that wonderful episcopal education for you.
shihonage wrote:
PSN: BoogleGWJHopefully we'll get ours down today so that it can get picked up with our trash pickup tomorrow. Of course we still have Halloween decorations on the front door so we'll see how that goes.
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I don't take mine down until the Feast of the Epiphany. Why end Christmas so early? It's a great time of year!
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We've had our tree since the weekend following Thanksgiving. I'm worried that it's near the point of spontaneous combustion.
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Keeping with the old country's traditions, we remove the tree only after Jan 13th -- the "Old New Year Day" according to the Julian calendar that's still being used by Eastern Orthodoxy.
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We didn't put up a single decoration.
I was and still am quite happy with that.
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My father knew a man who thought it would be a good idea to get rid of his Christmas tree by feeding into his fireplace. His rationale being that as the top of the tree was consumed, he would be able to feed more and more of it in. Guess what.
All this science I don't understand. It's just my job five days a week.
I will take my tree down when it starts dropping needles, pretty much my my entire basis for that decision. It makes a really nice decoration, as I've inherited a number of very nice ornaments (which won't see the light of day for a number of years once I have rugrats of my own), not to mention it gives the house a pleasant smell.
Our tree went up on Saturday right before Christmas, and it'll come down the day after New Years. When the kids were littler we instituted a tradition of the tree and the presents arriving with Santa Claus on Christmas Eve so as not to spend two weeks keeping pets and houseapes out of everything. They would hang their stockings right before bed and my ex and I would bring out the tree and decorate it and the house after they were asleep. Now that they're older I don't have to worry about that so much, but my apartment is pretty small so we've sort of kept the tradition up.
We reuse our tree - the branches are sawed off and go to a yard waste mulcher, and the truck is kept in my storage shed to age and become the Yule log for the fireplace the next Christmas morning. You do have to be somewhat careful because the things are full of pitch and after a year of seasoning that thing will go up fast and hard. One year we had a white pine that nearly caused a chimney fire.
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