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Sometime in December 12 16.90%
Black Friday/Weekend after Thanksgiving 54 76.06%
November 1 3 4.23%
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Old 11-10-2016, 08:34 AM  
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Christmas Decorating: How early is too early?
I have a few friends who started decorating for Christmas the day after Halloween. I've been giving them a hard time, as I have always been one who waits until the weekend after Thanksgiving. One friend of mine who lives in Texas puts up 10 trees and decorates them all (which having more than one tree is a whole other subject), so she said she needs to get started early. Another friend decorates the inside of her home throughout the month of November, but waits until the weekend after Thanksgiving to decorate outside. Certain stores even start selling trees and decorations before Halloween nowadays.

So, what how early do think is too early?
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Old 11-10-2016, 08:08 PM   #46
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It sounds like most of you have fake trees. Anyone here still get real ones?
I bought a real tree from Home Depot the first year in my home (2003).

It's soooo dry and hot here, even December, that the tree barely lasted two weeks.

I just purchased our third tree since and I'm hoping it'll last 5 years.
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Old 11-10-2016, 08:12 PM   #47
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I would go fake but the wife still wants a real tree, so every year, we head up in the mountains to get one. It's only $5 for a permit and about a 1/2 hour drive from our house, depending on the roads. Plus the dog loves running around in the snowy woods so we go.

When we lived in Oregon, we loved the grand firs but natural firs here are too spindly. We usually get a blue spruce since they are sturdier when small. They are also prickly which helps keep the cats out of the tree.
Love it! We did that once when we lived in Colorado.
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Old 11-10-2016, 08:13 PM   #48
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I bought a real tree from Home Depot the first year in my home (2003).

It's soooo dry and hot here, even December, that the tree barely lasted two weeks.

I just purchased our third tree since and I'm hoping it'll last 5 years.
AZ here. Cut a couple of inches off the bottom, put the tree in a bucket of hot, sugary water overnight. Do it again in the morning for a few hours. Then mount in your stand, put a teaspoon of sugar in the water reservoir at each water refill (hot).

Mine last through New Years.
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Old 11-10-2016, 08:14 PM   #49
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AZ here. Cut a couple of inches off the bottom, put the tree in a bucket of hot, sugary water overnight. Do it again in the morning for a few hours. Then mount in your stand, put a teaspoon of sugar in the water reservoir at each water refill. Hot water.

Mine last through New Years.
never heard about adding sugar!
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Old 11-10-2016, 08:18 PM   #50
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never heard about adding sugar!
Do the same for all of those roses you get your wife. Makes them last much longer. Warm water prevents the drooping just below the head as warm water is drawn up through the stem better. Otherwise the water doesn't even get that far, thus the droop and soft heads.

A bit of clear soda works well.
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Old 11-10-2016, 08:20 PM   #51
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AZ here. Cut a couple of inches off the bottom, put the tree in a bucket of hot, sugary water overnight. Do it again in the morning for a few hours. Then mount in your stand, put a teaspoon of sugar in the water reservoir at each water refill (hot).

Mine last through New Years.
Does your cat **** with your tree?
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Does your cat **** with your tree?
Not at all. But he's a lazy ****. The trick there is to not hang you balls too low.
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Not at all. But he's a lazy ****. The trick there is to not hang you balls too low.
Our cat is a crazy, deranged **** (likely from Cali) that bites at everything including the lower branches of our fake tree. Also, I am too OCD for having pine needles falling off onto the ground everyday. Plus I can only imagine the cat's puke with pine needles in it.
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Our cat is a crazy, deranged **** (likely from Cali) that bites at everything including the lower branches of our fake tree. Also, I am too OCD for having pine needles falling off onto the ground everyday. Plus I can only imagine the cat's puke with pine needles in it.
Toonces loves putting up the tree. He hangs out and watches, gets to wear a red lace necklace with a bell around his neck and play with the garland. His morning after shits are a heap of silver.

Spray some vinegar water on those lower limbs my man.
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Spray some vinegar water on those lower limbs my man.
We had a nice house plant we just bought. I sprayed the shit out of it with vinegar. Put citrus rinds lining the pot.

Went to watch a movie.

Within 10 minutes I hear this loud scrunching sound and that bitch was standing up pulling the leaves out of that plant one by one!

She's an unstoppable black cat with no regard for herself or others.
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We had a nice house plant we just bought. I sprayed the shit out of it with vinegar. Put citrus rinds lining the pot.

Went to watch a movie.

Within 10 minutes I hear this loud scrunching sound and that bitch was standing up pulling the leaves out of that plant one by one!

She's an unstoppable black cat with no regard for herself or others.
That's just bad parenting. Your fault you can't have a nice tree.
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Our cats leave the tree alone but part of that is the prickly needles. They do love to drink the water out of the holder though. I guess they like sap flavored water.

We do make sure the ornaments on the lower branches are unbreakable. In fact, we have some that are large colored bells so it's obvious when someone is messing with the tree.
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That's just bad parenting. Your fault you can't have a nice tree.
If she wasn't so hilarious, I open the door and let her run away.


I'm not a big holiday guy anyway so an easy to get and place fake tree is fine by me. I'll just hop on over to your place eDave(if that is your real name) to see a real tree.
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AZ here. Cut a couple of inches off the bottom, put the tree in a bucket of hot, sugary water overnight. Do it again in the morning for a few hours. Then mount in your stand, put a teaspoon of sugar in the water reservoir at each water refill (hot).

Mine last through New Years.
I appreciate the info but I'm good with an LED prelit tree at this point.

The city also charges $50 dollars to pick up the tree so in the end, it's not really worth the expense and trouble.
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I appreciate the info but I'm good with an LED prelit tree at this point.

The city also charges $50 dollars to pick up the tree so in the end, it's not really worth the expense and trouble.
You ever heard of a barrel, gasoline and a match?!
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