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Joined: May 2003 Posts: 4389
Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Best x-mass trees are plastic. |
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Joined: February 2005 Posts: 11840
Location: closely held secret | Life in the country - I've wanted artificial for the last two years, got outvoted again. Drove 1/2 mile down the road and bought a nice 10 foot grand from a grower friend for $15. |
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Joined: January 2006 Posts: 387
Location: Whitecourt, Ab | Within 1/2 mile in any direction of me are free spruce/pine/fir trees as far as you can see( a wonderful smell year round). We usually try to find one flat on one side to fit against our front room window. Our family tradition is to go out as a family and take turns chopping(5 hits each) one down and the one who falls the tree gets to place the star/angel on top when we finish decorating |
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Joined: September 2006 Posts: 10777
Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Good to live in Canada...
Urban Legend-- Last year, in the Portland OR area, some couple got busted for getting a Christmas Tree off the side of the highway.
Theft of Department of Transportation property. |
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Joined: December 2001 Posts: 10582
Location: NJ | went to home depot bought a balsam for 24.99 and a wreath for 9.99.
both sitting currently in the back yard. |
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Joined: May 2004 Posts: 2850
Location: Midland, MI | We went and got our tree today (blue spruce or something that looks remarkably like it).
My wife made me completely re-arrange the family room to accomodate it. My back hurts now from moving furniture.
It took several hours to move everything, clean, vaccuum, etc., etc. Ten minutes ago she said, "I don't think I like the room this way. It looks cluttery."
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Joined: June 2005 Posts: 1320
Location: Round Rock, TX | Artificial, lights already on (clear). Get it out of the attic (10 minutes), set it up (5 minutes), plug it in (0.5 minutes), put on the ornaments (1 hour - 9' tree - 100's of ornaments), light up the gas logs in the fireplace (0.5 minutes) and drink (real) eggnog and Drambuie and play carols on one of the O's (hours and hours, day after day). Priorities, people, priorities.
--bill |
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