Your Christmas tree specifications

1. So while I have the attention span of a gnat, you have the attention span of, um, what has a longer attention span than a gnat?
2. I think multicolored lights are retro in a particularly awesome way. I don't judge their use.
3. I have no further commentary on this one.
4. I have no idea what you mean by this but I'm afraid to ask.
5. Your response implies that there are different grades of fake. If it's just as fake as some lesser form of physical interaction, say, making out, does that mean that some of the limbs are fake and some are real?

There, there. I'm glad you came to today's meeting. That was very brave of you to admit you had an uncle like that. We all have a relative that it's hard to talk about.

This is probably an insensitive time for me to bring up the fact that I still ain't seen no pickled eggs flying out of the sky.

Yes! That's exactly what we have. It has made Christmas decorating so much easier.

My husband does fluff out the branches since he has the patience to do such things. I'd be fine just leaving it how it looks right out of the box. More natural, you know. Sort of the post-hailstorm look.

We usually put up our tree on the Friday or Saturday after Thanksgiving. My sons are grown and out of the house with one of them living out of town, so we put up the tree while they're still here for Thanksgiving. I like for my kids to be part of the Christmas decorating process. Growing up though, my family did not put up our tree until December and I understand your stance.

I have grown to admire your tilting at windmills. Ignoring stupid shit has become a habit for me because half of life is stupid shit but I would like to declare you The Holiday Knight!

I think it's very sweet that decorating the tree is a daddy-daughter activity in your house. I love your snowflake tree topper. It makes me wish I had asked people in this thread what their tree toppers were. Ours is a star similar to this one.

https://imgur.com/VhFBr7j

My husband is a perfectionist when it comes to putting up ornaments, too. His mother is, as well, which is where he got it from. It takes him forevvvvvvver to get the tree decorated. But I don't complain because at least he's doing it for me. 😂

I hadn't thought about trying a different variety of tree but now that we've already got our nice prelit artificial one I guess I'll just stick with that one.

Many of our decorations are personal in some way, too, and those are my favorites. Several are ones that my boys made in school growing up or that were personal gifts from friends. Those are the best. 😊 And despite the fact that I'm not crazy about putting the ornaments on the tree, there are a few favorites that I do insist putting on the tree myself. In fact with a couple of them, if someone beat me to the punch I'd probably take them back off the tree and then put them back on. 😂

Related to "real or artificial" I see your point, but I think it depends on the fact if you know where the tree has been planted (in a legal plantation for this purpose) and you know that later the tree will be delivered to a zoo or will use (at least partially) as a mulch or fertiliser.

One nice thing about having a real tree is how good it makes the house smell. You are lucky to be able to enjoy that.

Good point about tinsel and cats. We have a cat and she might find it far too interesting if we used it. Plus tinsel on an artificial tree just doesn't seem like a great idea. You'd have to take it back off every year or leave it there and let it get all crumpled up and neither option sounds great.