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   templo SUD said, 6 months ago

   Go to YouTube, “Rose is Rose” readers, and find “The 12 Pains of Christmas” (the first thing thereof is finding a Christmas tree).
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   batterd_citizen said, 6 months ago

   we used to get a real tree until 1959.
   a 1957 set of lights took the tree and a tacky 50’s parlor set with it.
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   Burnside217 said, 6 months ago

   As a kid I never enjoyed the buying of the tree. It was always in the evening after Dad got off work. The temperature was always below freezing and it was always breezy. Dad knew the owner and they would chat, out doors, for what seemed like all evening. For some reason, I’ve always preferred the artificial trees.
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   Doctor11 said, 6 months ago

   I miss having a Christmas tree.
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   LarryW2LJ said, 6 months ago

   So far, the past two weekends have been really rainy. We put up the artificial tree this year.
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   StoicLion said, 6 months ago

   @templo SUD

   Followed by rigging lights. Bring a flashlight, I blew a fuse!
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   Puddleglum2 said, 6 months ago

   “Maybe” – The Chantels
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   Puddleglum2 said, 6 months ago

   He can’t see the forest for the trees!
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   Meowlin said, 6 months ago

   @StoicLion

   Or, as they say in that nether world between England and France, bring a torch, Jeannette Isabella…
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago

    In the 1960’s we had one of those metallic trees with a light device that would shine green, blue and red on it.
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    truecanadianliberal said, 6 months ago

    I thank the baby Jesus I wasn’t born a Christian.
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    hippogriff said, 6 months ago

    truecanadianliberal: Nor was Jesus, he was a Jew.
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    The Life I Draw Upon said, 6 months ago

    Granted, I have used an artificial tree, but I have also considered trees with root balls. Our neighbors have done this for years and have many beautiful trees. Considering the Global Warming problem the future generations may breathe easier with more trees. An attractive living oxygen giving CO2 absorbing tree of equal cost is better in an abandon lot than an expensive dead tree in the city dump.
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    water_moon said, 6 months ago

    @The Life I Draw Upon

    Root ball trees are all well nd good if you have enough yard, not really an option for most renters either. That’s why we use the recyling program in town that turns old trees into mulch. They use it in the city parks and from what I’ve been told, it actully saves them quite a bit of money (the have free curb side pick up for the trees on certain dates for that very reason.) I’d suggest looking into in your area.
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    vwdualnomand said, 6 months ago

    why do you need a tree? how about something else? maybe a modern art sculpture?
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