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  • Time to take the tree down?

    I dunno...what do you guys think?


    We had noticed that it wasn't taking up much water at all, but I didn't realize it was *that* bad. Every ornament I took off shook dozens of needles to the floor. We never got this particular species before, and I don't think we will be getting it again.

  • #2
    OMG Dude...you win a PRIZE. I thought ours was bad...I'm rolling on the floor here!
    ~Mom of 5, married to an ID doc
    ~A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss

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    • #3
      You crack me up! Please let me know what kind of tree that is so I can be sure not to get the same kind next year!

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      • #4


        Maybe you could trim it into a shape? I'm sure it still has a few months left in it!

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        • #5
          Aw, c'mon Dagny! My mom left a "permanent" tree up for an entire year, and left a balled tree up until spring.

          Great picture. Aren't you one of the Dyson owners? Thank goodness!

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          • #6
            Wow, it turned into the Charlie Brown tree

            For future reference, Frasier Firs can be up from Black Friday til Epiphany with minimal shedding.

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            • #7
              How did you get the picture of our tree?
              Luanne
              Luanne
              wife, mother, nurse practitioner

              "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him." (John, Viscount Morely, On Compromise, 1874)

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              • #8
                We had a Frazer Fur this year and it was beautiful until hauled away in the garbage today!

                Jennifer
                Needs

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                • #9
                  I thought those were just shadows in the tree skirt at first, before realizing, no, those are pools of needles!
                  Married to a hematopathologist seven years out of training.
                  Raising three girls, 11, 9, and 2.

                  “That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”
                  Lev Grossman, The Magician King

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                  • #10
                    Ha! That is a great pic!

                    Ours came down about two days after. It had issues about drinking, I was afraid that it was going to spontaneously combust!

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                    • #11
                      Another reason I am the proud owner of a fake tree....

                      Who uses a machete to cut through red tape
                      With fingernails that shine like justice
                      And a voice that is dark like tinted glass

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                      • #12
                        Es ist Wunderbar.

                        Anyone got a match? :camp:

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                        • #13
                          On the tree note....you all remember The Battle of the Tree DH and I had last year? (For those who are new, we had a pre-lit tree sent to us via my MIL...DH put it up and I was grinchy and didn't want to, mainly cuz I knew that @#$(@* thing would never be taken down! Well, I think it finally came down in FEB OR MARCH!!!! Because I REFUSED to do it!!!!!)Naturally, being in CA and he in VA, there was no Battle. Alas, I could not provide the annual entertainment! Until next year, friends....!

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                          • #14
                            Marla, I forgot about that! That was great!

                            Erica, I'm nearly positive it was a white spruce. The guy at the tree lot went on and on about how fragrant they were. I'm a sucker for stinky trees, but this one had almost no smell. (or needles!)

                            Tracy, your suggestion is duly noted!!

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                            • #15
                              This picture brings back memories... I haven't had a tree since college (DH keeps reminding me each year that we're Jewish). Senior year I was living with a bunch of friends and we decided to get a small tree to go on top of our fridge. Well, let's just say that it didn't come down until graduation when we had to move out of the dorms. Come to think of it, may be that's why DH won't let me get one now.

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