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Post by veronicainsocks on Nov 6, 2023 11:45:05 GMT -5
Mine is out, will be decorated later today. For two glorious months Appropriate music playing too Post yours
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Post by veronicainsocks on Nov 6, 2023 11:46:21 GMT -5
I had my first fire of the season yesterday:
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Post by Queen on Nov 6, 2023 12:31:52 GMT -5
NOT UNTIL DECEMBER!!!!!
but it's about 35cm high with about 20 decorations lights on it and some tiny shiny decorations, not very exciting.
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Post by riverhorse on Nov 6, 2023 13:43:28 GMT -5
Mine doesn't go up until the 1st Sunday of Advent. It's a tiny artificial tree about the same height as Q's, with a whole heap of weird and wonderful decorations from either family or Internet weirdos. This is the first year I have a new decoration from Another Internet Weirdo Group, the foodie group I belong to on Facebook.
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Post by kneazle on Nov 6, 2023 15:07:02 GMT -5
I have a 6 foot artificial tree (I'm allergic to real ones) with lots of decorations I've got over the years. My favourite decorations are three stars that were made in Kashmir, bought in Dubai. I realise this makes no sense but they're really pretty.
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Post by groo on Nov 6, 2023 16:04:49 GMT -5
Pine trees are feral at my place. Feel free to pop around and cut a few down.
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Post by crazycat on Nov 6, 2023 16:23:12 GMT -5
Ours goes up on the first weekend in December. I was planning on getting a new one this year but given the amount of visitors we will have for Christmas, I will wait until next year. Ours is pretty plain and I need to add the lights (which is my most hated Christmas activity) and lots of mismatched decorations that we've acquired over the years. When I get a new one I'm going to get one with lights so I don't have to add my own.
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Post by lisamnz on Nov 6, 2023 16:43:00 GMT -5
Mine doesn't go up until the 1st Sunday of Advent. It's a tiny artificial tree about the same height as Q's, with a whole heap of weird and wonderful decorations from either family or Internet weirdos. This is the first year I have a new decoration from Another Internet Weirdo Group, the foodie group I belong to on Facebook. when is the first Sunday of advent? google is giving various answers. Groo, same. We had a christmas tree on the side of our shared driveway for several years that used to get decorated with tinsel etc (but no lights). Someone cut it down eventually as it got quite large - probably the family that made a big fuss about us suggesting we cut it down a few years earlier.
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Post by lisamnz on Nov 6, 2023 16:43:38 GMT -5
oh, is it December 3rd? I think I was searching wrong.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Nov 6, 2023 16:49:24 GMT -5
Our tree is artificial. We did talk about getting a new one for this year but figured it can last a bit longer (may need more tinsel to hide some droopy bits).
It will go up some time in December.
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 6, 2023 17:34:35 GMT -5
We have a circa-1960 aluminum tree that's currently in a box in the basement and will remain there for as long as our bored-with-the-holidays mood continues (forever?). I bought it at a yard sale for $2.
I'm glad you're enjoying yours, though!
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Post by lisamnz on Nov 6, 2023 17:59:03 GMT -5
The kids love putting up the Christmas tree. It provides the perfect opportunity for them to demonstrate their inability to cooperate, work together, or compromise even the smallest bit and instead they get to really develop their ability to stick to their guns over even something as trivial as whether the tinsel should run from top to bottom, or round the tree. And I can guarantee that they will always manage to find that one decoration out of the dozens of shitty secondhand ratty tatty baubles we have managed to collect that they both decide they love above all others this particular year and simply MUST be the one to place on the tree.
I can't wait.
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 6, 2023 18:03:23 GMT -5
lol lisamnz
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Post by tucano on Nov 6, 2023 19:05:53 GMT -5
Real tree, usually the first week of December. I love coming downstairs every morning to that scent.
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 6, 2023 19:42:26 GMT -5
I agree, that's a great smell. I bet someone sells Pine Spray for fake trees that I could just spritz the furniture with. But of course they do
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Post by sophie on Nov 6, 2023 19:55:33 GMT -5
We usually have a real tree. Until we moved, we could chop one down on our property but the bought cultured ones are nicer (fuller) so I would buy one every other year or so. Haven’t even thought about what we will do this year.
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Post by groo on Nov 6, 2023 21:31:00 GMT -5
I agree, that's a great smell. I bet someone sells Pine Spray for fake trees that I could just spritz the furniture with. But of course they do Better still, gin is made from juniper berries, so you'll get the same effect from sinking a few g & ts and leaving the glasses and the opened bottle on the coffee table - keeps malaria at bay, too.
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 6, 2023 21:33:02 GMT -5
A brilliant idea, but G&T's are incompatible with December in the Northern Hemisphere. Unless you can mull a G&T....
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Post by lisamnz on Nov 6, 2023 21:39:57 GMT -5
WEll, you guys will insist on having christmas in the middle of winter, instead of summer like us normal people
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Post by groo on Nov 6, 2023 21:52:48 GMT -5
For my first North American Christmas I refused to bend to those silly Norteamericano conventions and wore shorts, t shirt and thongs (jandals / flip flops, whatever) as is God's will. Taking out the garbage was pure hell.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Nov 6, 2023 22:01:25 GMT -5
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Post by whothingie on Nov 6, 2023 22:38:24 GMT -5
I'm the Christmas grinch so no tree now, although if I go north to Great Barrier Island it's my job to limit granddaughters expectations that dad can cut down a 40 foot tree with a pocket knife, carry it home and make it fit into a tiny beach house. I prefer going at new year..and for those confused.. no its not Great Barrier Reef in Aust, its an island off Auckland NZ
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Post by lisamnz on Nov 6, 2023 22:38:33 GMT -5
For my first North American Christmas I refused to bend to those silly Norteamericano conventions and wore shorts, t shirt and thongs (jandals / flip flops, whatever) as is God's will. Taking out the garbage was pure hell. We had a bbq. It was snowing. (this was in the UK)
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Post by groo on Nov 6, 2023 23:48:28 GMT -5
For my first North American Christmas I refused to bend to those silly Norteamericano conventions and wore shorts, t shirt and thongs (jandals / flip flops, whatever) as is God's will. Taking out the garbage was pure hell. Memories! Two days before that Christmas Jude (who was waitressing at the time) announced that she had invited one of her diners to share Christmas day with us. A fine fellow, she said, an Australian waif - a Queenslander. A bloody Queenslander! Hells bells! I gnashed my teeth but remained composed. By the afternoon of Christmas day we were good friends. Some 55 years later we remain good mates. Remind me to tell you one day of how, as an illegal immigrant, he managed a chain of US camping gear stores.
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Post by lisamnz on Nov 6, 2023 23:54:21 GMT -5
I think we might book a holiday to Australia just so that we can go and stay with Groo and hear all his stories :-)
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Post by groo on Nov 7, 2023 0:29:18 GMT -5
I would probably disappoint. Twould be a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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Post by lisamnz on Nov 7, 2023 0:56:23 GMT -5
noooooh! we would love it. you may not ;-)
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Nov 7, 2023 1:43:05 GMT -5
I think we might book a holiday to Australia just so that we can go and stay with Groo and hear all his stories :-) Christmas pissup Chez Groo! 🍻🥂
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Post by Queen on Nov 7, 2023 2:17:43 GMT -5
I'm the Christmas grinch so no tree now, although if I go north to Great Barrier Island it's my job to limit granddaughters expectations that dad can cut down a 40 foot tree with a pocket knife, carry it home and make it fit into a tiny beach house. I prefer going at new year..and for those confused.. no its not Great Barrier Reef in Aust, its an island off Auckland NZ I've had Christmas up there... four kids and two adults on a yacht... parentals slept on the yacht and worked hard to make us excited about camping ashore... dropping us off and rowing back to the yacht. It was only years later that I realised they'd probably just had enough of us! Christmas tree that year was a scrubby bit of manuka with shells sellotaped to it. We thought it was marvelous. (Until we had to untape the shells so the tree could continue its happy life )
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Post by groo on Nov 7, 2023 2:29:20 GMT -5
I think we might book a holiday to Australia just so that we can go and stay with Groo and hear all his stories :-) Christmas pissup Chez Groo! 🍻🥂 It's a lovely idea, but you have no idea of the mess my place is in - I have all the detritus from chezgroosurmer, which clogs the house. Sorting it out, putting things away, discarding some things etc was going to be my winter project, but then various bodily functions began calling it quits and I have had a rather unproductive 6 months. My health is, however, now on the improve. And then there's the acres of weeds and feral herbage. Easter?
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