12/1/2008 1:28:49 PM

12/1/2008 1:29:42 PM

12/1/2008 1:30:37 PM

Yours looks scarce compared to mine. The bf wanted to add more too!

12/1/2008 1:31:49 PM

Kiwi, it looks like you're about to start a fire

12/1/2008 1:33:02 PM

mine is teeny tiny


i'll post it when i get home and can take pictures

12/1/2008 1:33:53 PM

I like it that way. Every ornament has personal meaning to me. My grandmother gave me an ornament every Christmas from the day I was born, and all the others were given to me for various other reasons. I don't add shit to it just to fill space.

oh, and I can't stand colored lights

[Edited on December 1, 2008 at 1:34 PM. Reason : a]

12/1/2008 1:34:05 PM

hahaha That orange glow behind it is actually a fire!

The lights I have don't get hot and it's only ever on when someone is around so yeah...

^That's cool dj, we managed to do that this year too because we combined two houses. Every ornament we hung had a story to it. Was a fun night!

[Edited on December 1, 2008 at 1:35 PM. Reason : ffdsfsd]

12/1/2008 1:34:08 PM

^ yeah that's true, when my ex and I lived together we had a lot more ornaments. I guess now that I am on my own again I should get a smaller tree.

12/1/2008 1:38:29 PM

Ours won't be up for a while. but my mom loves lots of lights! and every year we get 2-3 new hallmark ornaments. so ours is basically a hallmark tree with red balls everywhere and lights.

12/1/2008 1:51:42 PM

my parents are getting an artificial tree this year. but i was like, why didn't you buy one LAST year after christmas when there were on sale. and they were like "well we hope they go on sale this year" and i'm like yea but they're not going on sale until like 5 seconds before christmas or after

and they're slowly forcing us to make our tree look "nice" --- meaning all of my totally amazing homemade ornaments from elementary school are fewer and fewer each year. i'm offended.

12/1/2008 1:53:32 PM

The only thing I want from my parent's house is my stocking. It's pink with a porcelain old world Santa head on it. It's very antique looking and I lurve it.

I don't have room for a tree I do make wreaths for my doors and I put up some old school chunky lights in my window. I am also hand painting glass ornaments for friends. Holler if you want one

12/1/2008 1:54:09 PM

I'd be offended too. A matching tree is not personal at all and ugly as shit. Go for wild crazy with things that mean something to the family.

btw fake trees suck.

This is my last year of supporting cut trees though. Next year we start finding trees with the ball attached so we can replant it.

12/1/2008 1:55:47 PM

Here we go again with the pagan ritual used by christians to denote a mythical birth.

12/1/2008 1:56:18 PM

nice looking trees! I'm going out probably tomorrow after work to buy my first ever real christmas tree (used a fake one the last 5 yrs). I can't wait! Pics will be posted

We should also make a thread for outdoor house christmas decorations.

12/1/2008 1:57:04 PM

I am a fan of formal trees as well as personal trees.

Why can't you do both?

When I get a house I will have at least 2 trees. I like so many style of decorations, I want one in every room

[Edited on December 1, 2008 at 1:58 PM. Reason : e]

12/1/2008 1:57:17 PM

my christmas decorations don't look very christmasy


it's all blue and white and silver


i guess that fits my ice queen theme

12/1/2008 1:57:25 PM

On a funny note, I found black Santa wrapping paper at Wal-Mart. I am wrapping everyone's presents in it this year.

12/1/2008 1:57:39 PM

^^You must be Jewish

^Will you wrap your peen for me?

12/1/2008 1:59:09 PM

oh yeah

i'm really jewish

12/1/2008 1:59:51 PM

I might need to get a bigger roll

12/1/2008 2:00:13 PM

Sorry it's so blurry, my cell phone camera SUCKS

12/1/2008 2:01:47 PM

This reminds me...I need to decorate the office.

Fuckin scrooges in here don't deserve it.

I do have a blue pen that I decorated with ribbon and this sparkly thing that came off a Christmas present last year. I'm so festive

Eric Pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase send me a present this year. I love it

[Edited on December 1, 2008 at 2:02 PM. Reason : e]

12/1/2008 2:01:59 PM

i'm so putting up a christmas tree in my office

12/1/2008 2:02:26 PM

Quote :

"Sorry it's so blurry, my cell phone camera SUCKS "

Someone needs to stop that man from stealing those gifts!

[Edited on December 1, 2008 at 2:03 PM. Reason : -]

12/1/2008 2:03:20 PM

12/1/2008 2:04:35 PM

ooooh, it looks much better as a thumbnail

12/1/2008 2:05:10 PM

12/1/2008 2:06:02 PM

12/1/2008 2:06:03 PM

^^iswydt

12/1/2008 2:06:39 PM

Quote :

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I kid! I kid!

12/1/2008 2:06:58 PM

you are going on my "hanging out is a priority" list since i failed pretty hard at that the other night

12/1/2008 2:08:12 PM

We have always had an artificial tree. My dad HATES the idea of tree farms and cutting down trees. I guess it makes sense too, not too environmentally friendly. ours looks good though. no complaints.

12/1/2008 2:09:13 PM

how is it not environmentally friendly?

12/1/2008 2:11:14 PM

how is tree farming any less environmentally friendly than a non-biodegradable plastic tree sitting in a landfill for 100 years?

12/1/2008 2:13:00 PM

I mean making plastic for tree versus cutting one down.

Only reason I do it is because we did it growing up and the smell is out of this world. But like I said, last tree without the roots this year. Time to get what I want and give back too!

12/1/2008 2:14:22 PM

exactly


chopping down christmas trees isn't exactly like mowing down an entire rain forest

12/1/2008 2:14:57 PM

not to mention most trees are grown on farms and planted for that very purpose. That is like saying that eating corn is bad for the environment. It's the same concept. It's not like these people are clear cutting forests for your Christmas tree.

furthermore, a good portion of dead christmas trees are used to sink in lakes to create fish beds.

[Edited on December 1, 2008 at 2:17 PM. Reason : a]

12/1/2008 2:16:47 PM

somebody watched the alvin and the chipmunks movie too many times and thinks they are disrupting the homes of singing rodents

12/1/2008 2:18:19 PM

and buying a christmas tree is supporting NC crops.

and the fish/lake bed thing.

or we just put ours behind our shed and let the squirrels play in it until it rots into the ground.

i get that it is cutting down trees, but these trees are more like a crop. they weren't there to begin with. someone planted them all in little rows to be harvested.

12/1/2008 2:18:41 PM

ok so it is last years tree but this year the tree like usual won't be put up till right before christmas.

[Edited on December 1, 2008 at 2:21 PM. Reason : you people bring it up with my dad not me. I like the smell of a real tree.]

12/1/2008 2:20:00 PM

Mine is artificial, but I have had the same tree for close to 10 years. But in no way am I against real trees. Shit, I would love to have a real tree I just hate cleaning up the mess. My family in PA owns a tree farm actually.

12/1/2008 2:20:58 PM

The post Christmas "rapid burning of trees" is great too.

12/1/2008 2:26:27 PM

that's another thing that i never understood. people that wait until like Christmas Eve to put up their tree. I don't see the point in going through all that trouble just to take it down 2 days later.

12/1/2008 2:30:10 PM

a lot of those people leave it up until new years

we don't even take our tree down until the end of the month (which is only 2 days after the 2 days later)

but my dad used to do this...well his parents i mean. they would set up the tree and a train that went around it with the white stuffing for snow and all the little village parts all on christmas eve. i think its kinda cool.

12/1/2008 2:35:45 PM

you guys sure do suck at posting your christmas tree....

12/1/2008 2:36:37 PM

I guess it's a tradition to a lot of folks, I just don't get it. My shit comes down 12/26, along with all my outside lights.

12/1/2008 2:37:02 PM

the 26th?!?! that is sad

12/1/2008 2:53:48 PM

I am pretty much Christmased out by that point and just ready for it to be over.

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