Up goes the tree

[BlackSnake]

Yeah.

Isn't Christmas great?

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b318/sweetsubsarahh/charliebrownchristmas.jpg

It is the Christmas holiday season

 

[SummerMorning]

You actually and seriously put the tree up a whole month before Christmas?

Wow.

I'm impressed.

 

[BlackSnake]

You actually and seriously put the tree up a whole month before Christmas?

Wow.

I'm impressed.

Absolutely! Sequence follows with the Christmas shopping days. Santa never made to my house, so we got each other presents. You don't put who the present is from on the gifts, so the gift giving starts. By this evening, gifts will be under the tree and it will grow. Be modest in spending and you can give a lot. You're never too old for xmas

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

Haven't gotten ours up yet. We usually do it sometime during Thanksgiving holiday, but hubby's had to work every day but actual Thanksgiving day.

 

[~photoguy~]

Buy one, keep for years

buy a FAKE tree ?? omg ... noooo

and miss out on all that fun every year ?

 

[cloudy]

we get a tree from a tree farm, too, so it's usually 2 weeks - 1 1/2 weeks before Christmas when we get it, sometimes a little later. The needles start falling off too soon if you get them any earlier.

Tangent: anyone have favorite ornaments they use every year? Heirlooms, etc.?

Our tree is sort of eclectic (and I mean that in the broadest sense). I have hand-crocheted snowflakes that were given to me as a gift, brocade ornaments all alongside the popsicle stick sleds and the clothespin rudolphs that my kids have made in preschool and school. I love those most of all.

 

[~photoguy~]

I *think* Im gonna be smarter this year and buy the tree ASAP (while the selection is good).. then keep it in the yard (frozen) until about Dec 15 .. then bring it in and thaw/decorate it

we buy a new decoration for each kid every year (with the year on it)

now that the midgits are getting older, its nostalgic to look at the ones they got when they were toddlers

 

[SummerMorning]

Absolutely! Sequence follows with the Christmas shopping days. Santa never made to my house, so we got each other presents. You don't put who the present is from on the gifts, so the gift giving starts. By this evening, gifts will be under the tree and it will grow. Be modest in spending and you can give a lot. You're never too old for xmas

Hm. Never looked at it that way.

Not the way we do it, I guess.

*cultural difference rears it's head*

 

[lil_elvis]

we get a tree from a tree farm, too, so it's usually 2 weeks - 1 1/2 weeks before Christmas when we get it, sometimes a little later. The needles start falling off too soon if you get them any earlier.

Tangent: anyone have favorite ornaments they use every year? Heirlooms, etc.?

Our tree is sort of eclectic (and I mean that in the broadest sense). I have hand-crocheted snowflakes that were given to me as a gift, brocade ornaments all alongside the popsicle stick sleds and the clothespin rudolphs that my kids have made in preschool and school. I love those most of all.

Same here. Got some that belonged to my grandmother alongside those wonderful popsicle, cotton ball and tempura paint creations. Then there are those the mrs. buys wherever/whenever(?) we go on vacation. And every year she buys each of the kids their own, specifcally appropriate, ornamemts. So they'll "have something to put on their tree when they leave home." (Can that happen soon enough?).

We also get our tree from a local farm and put it up the weekend before Christmas. Picked it out back in early November, but it only lasts about 2 weeks so we can only expcet it to last from Christmas til New Years.

 

[Guest]

for the second time in my life, i have lost every christmas ornament/decoration. it saddens me because i only ever kept the ones that were made for me/us.
time to start anew and this year we will fill the tree in with cranberries and popcorn garlands. will do this while watching xmas films before a roaring fire.

 

[BlackSnake]

Out come the presents.

Hey guys, do Christmas this year. If not for you, then for someone else. Find a child and buy presents for him/her. We are buying presents for a couple of neighbor kids who has a single mother. We're not going to let them or their mother know until Christmas day. And for goodness sakes, don't put "From" on the card.

I already have my Brandy and just waiting to buy the Egg-Nogg

 

[BlackSnake]

FYI: pictures taken with my cell phone, so please excuse the quality

 

[Lady_Kit]

Not your everyday tree

The Christmas Palm, complete with pink flamingoes, paper parrots and a 30 year old elf. At least I hope the picture uploads.

 

[JRaven]

The Christmas Palm, complete with pink flamingoes, paper parrots and a 30 year old elf. At least I hope the picture uploads.

You're obviously in a much warmer climate than I am.

Our tree is up. As is visible in the AV.

Jenny

 

[Lady_Kit]

You're obviously in a much warmer climate than I am.

Our tree is up. As is visible in the AV.

Jenny

Not a warm climate, warm dreams. Nice tree you have, and nicely accessorized by yourself.

 

[matriarch]

Just for the record...........this would have been my living room, Christmas Eve.

Pretty traditional.

 

[Lady_Kit]

Tradition is good. Lovely tree, Mat.

 

[BlackSnake]

The Christmas Palm, complete with pink flamingoes, paper parrots and a 30 year old elf. At least I hope the picture uploads.

Me likey!

 

[BlackSnake]

Just for the record...........this would have been my living room, Christmas Eve.

Pretty traditional.

You're definately a leader