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KickassAmazon76
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I have heard that many people have decided to decorate early for Christmas. Normally the tree isn't put up until first or second weekend in Dec, but the kids were asking for it earlier.
Maybe we need to feel a little bit more magic this year. For me, there's something special about seeing multi colored lights, and memories of Christmas past. It gives my heart a squeeze.
I figured I'd create this thread for people to show their trees (or decorations).
Are you a traditionalist? More modern? Is your tree a mishmash of homemade ornaments, or one that's perfectly decorated?
Show us your trees!
Maybe we need to feel a little bit more magic this year. For me, there's something special about seeing multi colored lights, and memories of Christmas past. It gives my heart a squeeze.
I figured I'd create this thread for people to show their trees (or decorations).
Are you a traditionalist? More modern? Is your tree a mishmash of homemade ornaments, or one that's perfectly decorated?
Show us your trees!
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I'll start...
My tree is artificial, and decorated with ornaments from all the years past. (Some are older than I am, and are from my parents), lots are from my kids. Heck the tree is probably 30years old! *sneezes*
This is actually the back side... It's in the doorway separating my living room from my sunroom turned office.
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Rolling ROFL's
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And these are two of my fav ornaments... One is older than I am, and one is my self professed alter ego!
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Diatonic12 wrote: »
Rolling ROFL's
Haha, Miss D, did you claim Blake as your Christmas tree? Naughty, naughty!2 -
Here is my actual tree.
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I maintain my rules: No tree or decorations until after Thanksgiving (half of my neighbors already have their decorations up, despite our housing community having rules that they passive aggressively sent out through an email last week.
However, to contribute to the thread until such time: Have a cat in a tree from the past.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th2FYRobDxU
@KickassAmazon76 Way to light this place UP and blow the roof off.
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KosmosKitten wrote: »I maintain my rules: No tree or decorations until after Thanksgiving (half of my neighbors already have their decorations up, despite our housing community having rules that they passive aggressively sent out through an email last week.
However, to contribute to the thread until such time: Have a cat in a tree from the past.
Well... Technically it IS after Thanksgiving... We can call you an honorary Canadian! Haha
Love the kitty in the tree! Mine loves sitting underneath it...but wants to chew on the LED lightbulbs. I'm so nervous he's going to zap himself!2 -
KickassAmazon76 wrote: »KosmosKitten wrote: »I maintain my rules: No tree or decorations until after Thanksgiving (half of my neighbors already have their decorations up, despite our housing community having rules that they passive aggressively sent out through an email last week.
However, to contribute to the thread until such time: Have a cat in a tree from the past.
Well... Technically it IS after Thanksgiving... We can call you an honorary Canadian! Haha
Love the kitty in the tree! Mine loves sitting underneath it...but wants to chew on the LED lightbulbs. I'm so nervous he's going to zap himself!
Apologies, I do always forget our neighbors to the north have theirs in Oct.!
To be honest, our tree tradition is rooted in the fact that my father would usually have Thanksgiving off and take the following weekend off to spend with me. The Christmas tree farms were a good place to go then, as most people were concentrating more heavily on Black Friday sales and hanging out with extended family.
So.. we'd do Thanksgiving, watch the lighting of the Country Club Plaza in KC, MO (got to actually see it in person once and it snowed that day, so it was kinda magical) and then sometime during Thanksgiving weekend, we'd go pick out and cut down a tree for our living room.
We had an artificial tree, but dad always liked (and still does) real trees, despite the clean-up.
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KickassAmazon76 wrote: »I'll start...
My tree is artificial, and decorated with ornaments from all the years past. (Some are older than I am, and are from my parents), lots are from my kids. Heck the tree is probably 30years old! *sneezes*
This is actually the back side... It's in the doorway separating my living room from my sunroom turned office.
Your tree is so pretty and festive! I won't be putting up mine until 1st week of December. But this thread is great inspiration!
And I love your Wonder Woman ornament.
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We always get a real tree...unless we're traveling for Thanksgiving, we always get it the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Lots don't open up until that weekend anyway, so doing it early is a moot point...but I wouldn't even if I could. I love Christmas, but I'm honestly pretty Christmased out by the time it actually rolls around. If I started any earlier, I'd probably be done with it all by mid December.
Usually put the tree up and lights on the tree and outside on the back patio on Saturday and then we decorate the tree and the rest of the house Sunday. We do white lights...ornaments are a hodgepodge of those given to my wife and I over the years growing up and the one's my boys get every year. We have high ceilings, so usually a 10 footer.3 -
cwolfman13 wrote: »We always get a real tree...unless we're traveling for Thanksgiving, we always get it the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Lots don't open up until that weekend anyway, so doing it early is a moot point...but I wouldn't even if I could. I love Christmas, but I'm honestly pretty Christmased out by the time it actually rolls around. If I started any earlier, I'd probably be done with it all by mid December.
Usually put the tree up and lights on the tree and outside on the back patio on Saturday and then we decorate the tree and the rest of the house Sunday. We do white lights...ornaments are a hodgepodge of those given to my wife and I over the years growing up and the one's my boys get every year. We have high ceilings, so usually a 10 footer.
Just to add to my original post...It's also been in the 70s for most of November and we were pushing 80 almost everyday last week which is unseasonably warm...kids asked me if we could de-winterize the pool...doesn't feel very Christmas like at all right now.
This week looks like we'll finally be going into more seasonal weather with temps in the 50s and some overcast skies.0 -
Crappy way to post it but this was one of my “White House” trees. It’s easily 25 foot tall.
I sorta miss that log house.
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Look at y'all with your put together trees.
Mine always looks like a Santaland and an Ozarkland threw up on it.4 -
Mine won’t be up for a few more weeks but it usually looks the same...little white lights and a mishmash of sentimental ornaments. And a little tree outside with pine cones, red bows, and white lights too:
And my favourite ornament is one from my grandparents when I was 7. She’s a porcelain bell:
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These are beautiful! I hope to see pics from those of you who are waiting a bit yet!
Thank you to all who have shared! ❤️4 -
I love Christmas! My grandmother hand made some ornaments.
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This is our neighbor's wreath.
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