When are you putting up your Christmas Tree?

[Chara021]

For the first time I put the Salon decorations up last week of November. Usually I refuse to do Christmas before December but as it happened and clients literally asking, I decided being a business I would succumb to the madness.
However the house decorations didn't go up until the first week of December. And rightly so in my humble opinion.

 

[sigourney's knickers]

For the first time I put the Salon decorations up last week of November. Usually I refuse to do Christmas before December but as it happened and clients literally asking, I decided being a business I would succumb to the madness.
However the house decorations didn't go up until the first week of December. And rightly so in my humble opinion.

Damn it.

Fine time to be bald.

 

[Yermon]

I splashed out on a real expensive but class looking perfectly shaped artificial Christmas Tree about 15 years ago. Everybody who came to the house admired it. Perfect height and size for the room. Class.
Then as the daughter got older and more in cahoots with the missus they started telling me, it's better to have a REAL Christmas Tree, they smell so much better and there's a real festive vibe off them. I said the whole "festive" pine smell can be introduced with essential oils (the women LOVE essential oils for some reason) or whatever and that with the cost of real trees, not to mention the hassle and aggravation of having to go out get an imperfect Christmas Tree somewhere, and dispose of it subsequently and make sh*t of your car interior both times, the artificial one that everybody had admired for years had paid for itself many times over.

But no, it HAD to be real

Busy busy lives now and not gotten our real tree yet. I'm going to drop the "we'd have had the tree up easily by now if we'd stayed with an artificial tree" bomb (am I allowed say bomb here yet or will the usual suspects revert to type) later this week

I wouldn't mind even buying another top class artificial tree, but instead of having one boss at home, I now have two. And both of them want a REAL tree. My sons, like me, couldn't really care what type of tree it is, just as long as there's some tree there that doesn't look tatty, and has decorations on it.

And by the way, no matter what real tree we get, don't you just know it'll be my fault if it looks slightly gammy.

 

[gaffer falls]

For some reason women get very upset if the tree is not precisely vertical

 

[Chara021]

I splashed out on a real expensive but class looking perfectly shaped artificial Christmas Tree about 15 years ago. Everybody who came to the house admired it. Perfect height and size for the room. Class.
Then as the daughter got older and more in cahoots with the missus they started telling me, it's better to have a REAL Christmas Tree, they smell so much better and there's a real festive vibe off them. I said the whole "festive" pine smell can be introduced with essential oils (the women LOVE essential oils for some reason) or whatever and that with the cost of real trees, not to mention the hassle and aggravation of having to go out get an imperfect Christmas Tree somewhere, and dispose of it subsequently and make sh*t of your car interior both times, the artificial one that everybody had admired for years had paid for itself many times over.

But no, it HAD to be real

Busy busy lives now and not gotten our real tree yet. I'm going to drop the "we'd have had the tree up easily by now if we'd stayed with an artificial tree" bomb (am I allowed say bomb here yet or will the usual suspects revert to type) later this week

I wouldn't mind even buying another top class artificial tree, but instead of having one boss at home, I now have two. And both of them want a REAL tree. My sons, like me, couldn't really care what type of tree it is, just as long as there's some tree there that doesn't look tatty, and has decorations on it.

And by the way, no matter what real tree we get, don't you just know it'll be my fault if it looks slightly gammy.

I'm with you on that one. Never quite felt the need for a real tree. Plus nowadays as someone else mentioned they are all trussed up when you buy them so there's no telling what they really look like.
Then there's the hassle of them.

Also what's the point of having something ' real ' and then lashing on a heap of artificial baubles and whatnot. Keep things consistent would be my motto. Start as you plan to finish

I wonder would there be a market for ' real' decorations for the ' real' tree.

 

[Yermon]

I'm with you on that one. Never quite felt the need for a real tree. Plus nowadays as someone else mentioned they are all trussed up when you buy them so there's no telling what they really look like.
Then there's the hassle of them.

Also what's the point of having something ' real ' and then lashing on a heap of artificial baubles and whatnot. Keep things consistent would be my motto. Start as you plan to finish

I wonder would there be a market for ' real' decorations for the ' real' tree.

Any chance you could have a sisterly-word with my two bosses?

There's a bottle of eggnog in it for you if you can convince them

 

[markyboy]

The man in the real Christmas tree shop told me last week they take around 7 years to grow and they’ve employees regularly trimming them into a rough Christmas tree shape over the time they’re planted.

 

[Matlock]

Real tree or nothing for me.

 

[Lee Bushwacker]

Christmas trees aren't that big a deal in Spain.
We don't have one in our apartment but we put up some decorations after the 8th December. Taken down again on 7th January.
Anyway, we have two lovely, playful cats who'd probably make shite of a tree.

 

[Chara021]

Real tree or nothing for me.

Presumably you have Mr Matlock helping to collect it and subsequently dispose of it...also I would imagine one needs a suitable vehicle to transport it?
Or do people get them delivered? That wouldn't be such a dose tbf.