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Tsuwano
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Maria, thank you for the information about Christmas tree recycling programs. I’ll let my relatives back in the States know about this site. I’m sure it will make some folks feel a lot merrier this Christmas.
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funnyyetsavvy
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Real for me!!! No matter what!!!
But I do have fond memories of being so excited to go to grandpa and grandma’s apartment and seeing their table top sized tree year after year…
Having lived in Illinois and Minnesota and Iowa, live trees were so easy to come by and you could choose long or short needles, full and bushy or tall and leaner, bluish green or deep green etc.
Last year in Florida all the trees seemed to be the same kind, which is ok, but seeing all the variety ‘up North’ was go cool…
“Charlie Brown Christmas” all the way!!!
But I do have fond memories of being so excited to go to grandpa and grandma’s apartment and seeing their table top sized tree year after year…
Having lived in Illinois and Minnesota and Iowa, live trees were so easy to come by and you could choose long or short needles, full and bushy or tall and leaner, bluish green or deep green etc.
Last year in Florida all the trees seemed to be the same kind, which is ok, but seeing all the variety ‘up North’ was go cool…
“Charlie Brown Christmas” all the way!!!
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lifeisbeautiful
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Oh yeah, I love that!
Well, before we got married I was very adamant that I only wanted real trees. I grew up with that and loved the smell etc. Three kids later and after traveling for holidays etc we use the artificial tree dh had purchased before we married, and I like it
. I still love the smell of real trees, but don’t miss the mess, and it is just easier for me to have a fake one around the kids. We usually have the room where the tree goes gated off though, to avoid disasters. I bought a christmas tree scent wallflower and plug it in next to the tree 
. We will be spending Christmas at my mom’s this year so it will be nice to smell a real tree again though.
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happymommy
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We use to put those shiny thin icicles on our tree, I don’t know what they are made out some type of paper I guess. They looked pretty draped over the branches. Then we got our dog. She started eating them off of the tree, we didn’t know this until one day we look outside and the dog is running in circles with icicles hanging out of the butt. Very nice. After laughing for a while my hubby went to rescue the dog from the attack of the shiny poop and I went and took all the icicles off of the tree. You got to love the holidays!
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Teakafrog
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That is hilarious! A few years ago we were putting that kind of tinsel on the tree, and hubby started reading the package–“Keep away from pets and children. Do not ingest. May cause gastric distress”. So ‘gastric distress’ became a catchphrase for a while.Oh, and we have a fake tree. We did real ones for a while, I got tired of pine needles poking me in July.
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happymommy
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If that wasn’t “gastric distress” I don’t know what is! I can’t even imagine if one of the kids ate it
Oh, and we have a fake tree. We did real ones for a while, I got tired of pine needles poking me in July.
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OutinChgoburbs
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I forgot to mention another favorite TV movie, The House Without A Christmas Tree.
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SeekerJen
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Is that the one with the little girl named Addie? Yeah, that was a tradition in the house when I was a kid. My dad loves that one.
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Truly_Beloved
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“Practical” is exactly why we like real trees.Y’all are so ‘practical’ about the tree issue, but I guess that’s not surprising coming from Catholics
We have no storage space to keep a fake tree during the year.
Even if we had the storage, we have scorpions, and I don’t want to give them another nice cozy place to hide and breed.
Pine smells good. That’s practical, isn’t it? My house smells like Christmas with a real tree; it’s all part of the ambiance.
And if the kids accidentally ingest a part of the tree, at least it’s real. Those fake ones, God only knows what they make them with (toxic PVC plastic?
That’s what our old tree was).
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Feanaro_s_Wife
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Actually it can be very serious…even fatal. The tinsel can kind of wind around the intestines and cause a blockage and major damage. Sorry to be a downer…but don’t use tinsel if you have anyone or anything in the house likely to eat it!If that wasn’t “gastric distress” I don’t know what is! I can’t even imagine if one of the kids ate it
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Brenda_V
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Gastric distress in cats, dogs and children due to tinsel has the potential to be a whole lot worse than what happened to that poor dog! It can easily get caught in the digestive tract requiring surgery to remove it!If that wasn’t “gastric distress” I don’t know what is! I can’t even imagine if one of the kids ate it
Nope, don’t do tinsel in my house. Especially now, I have a cat who eats everything odd she can! She is worse than a baby so I have to be careful in what does make it into my house!
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Malia - I read your post after I posted. look at that we both think alike!Actually it can be very serious…even fatal. The tinsel can kind of wind around the intestines and cause a blockage and major damage. Sorry to be a downer…but don’t use tinsel if you have anyone or anything in the house likely to eat it!
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happymommy
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We don’t use it anymore, but I grew up with it and no pets and or people ate it.
Children and animals can also eat ornament hooks, pine needles, decorative berries they put on Christmas wreaths the list can go on and on. The dog is fine. She eats everything, she has eaten sheets, blankets, my kitchen aprons, baby clothes, shoes, babie doll shoes, stuffed animals, crayons…eats them not just chews them…she’s fond of eating rocks and June bugs too. She’s 11 now, so I don’t think I’ve done her too much harm. But thanks for the concern. Let’s not make into the great tinsel debate. I thought it was a funny story, I’m sorry you did not. The message is out now, tinsel is bad!
Children and animals can also eat ornament hooks, pine needles, decorative berries they put on Christmas wreaths the list can go on and on. The dog is fine. She eats everything, she has eaten sheets, blankets, my kitchen aprons, baby clothes, shoes, babie doll shoes, stuffed animals, crayons…eats them not just chews them…she’s fond of eating rocks and June bugs too. She’s 11 now, so I don’t think I’ve done her too much harm. But thanks for the concern. Let’s not make into the great tinsel debate. I thought it was a funny story, I’m sorry you did not. The message is out now, tinsel is bad!
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BamaRider
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I’m surprised to see the fakes winning by such a margin.
But you have to admit, it makes the litter box look so… interesting…Actually it can be very serious…even fatal. The tinsel can kind of wind around the intestines and cause a blockage and major damage. Sorry to be a downer…but don’t use tinsel if you have anyone or anything in the house likely to eat it!
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Santi2
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A real thing would be good but, maintenance and cost has put me off from buying one. So, artificial has been the norm for many, many years. We have two. A recently purchased one which is really pretty and nearly like the real thing. However, we’ve decided to put up the old one as well. The latter has served us well and it does not feel quite right to toss out an “old friend”. So, we’ll spruce it up a bit, hang baubles all the same and find a nice spot for it in the house.
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SeekerJen
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Hmm…a festive litter box.
Our rabbit went to her reward recently, and she would have been the most likely to eat tinsel, but considering our male cat’s penchant for turning all people foods and some non-foods into cat snacks, we’d best not risk the tinsel. sigh It’s so pretty. One of the big things I remember from childhood Christmases was the huge real tree that my grandpa would set up in the front room- tinsel everywhere and these cool ice-ball lights.
Grandpa turned into such a kid at Christmas: he met my grandma after they had both been widowed, and they married about 9 months before I was born. His children with his first wife had all died in utero, so he went from being all alone to a family with seven grown step-children and 12 grandchildren (I was number 13). Every Christmas until he was too sick he would decorate like crazy- hence the tree- and then film the whole Christmas Eve party on his 35 mm camera. We’ve got video footage of Christmas 1977 (when I was in utero) and 1978 (when I was crawling around on the floor with the dog). It’s a riot.
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LukeFive
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Just joking… we always cut one down but the type varies from year to year.
Just joking… we always cut one down but the type varies from year to year.
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SeekerJen
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Wow- that photo is impressive and disturbing.
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LukeFive
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I wish I could say that I made it. I will try to find a picture of the one I welded out of horse shoes. It is at my parent’s house still I think, but it is for outside.
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Stella76
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When my husband and I decided we had to go for a fake tree (just more economical for us newlyweds), we decided we had to go all the way. None of this life-like fake tree stuff. If it was going to be fake, it was going to look fake.
So now we are the proud owners of a silver fiber-optic tree with a motorized color wheel.
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So now we are the proud owners of a silver fiber-optic tree with a motorized color wheel.
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