Anyone put up a Christmas tree yet? I did, just haven’t decorated it yet, maybe tonight.
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I’m still trying to convince my wife to buy a fake tree. I find cutting down something beautiful and decorating its corpse gruesome.
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Can I get a huge amen. It wouldn’t be quite so bad… If ONLY… people would take the tree after wards to a mulching spot… to be mulched and used in the community gardens for summer… But sadly… they leave it in the gutters to rot until March or April.
We’re decorating the two trees outside. My sis and I decorate the small one just out side the gate and the building decorates the big one in the courtyard. My sis’s idea of bird seed ornaments is catching on.
The few she put up have already been eaten.
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I used to think that so I have a fake tree. But since I started dating my bf who is a logger I see it differently now. He has a BA in forestry so the type of logging he does is managed harvesting not clear cutting. The timber is marked which ones to remove because they are saleable and won’t grow anymore, and they’re removal will allow others to grow in its place. And with the xmas trees if you are buying from a farm they are planting new ones every season to replace the ones that were harvested over the holidays or the ones that died.
We do take the tree to be mulched. Our county has an excellent recycling program. I’m also pretty careful about separating out cans, plastics, glass, etc. Do a weekly run where everything gets tossed into the proper bin. So there’s that.
My big thing is fire hazard. I realize that’s pretty much non-existent with the new LED lights we’ve switched to, but we had a Christmas tree fire when I was a kid thanks to those large incandescent bulbs. We caught it before there was much damage beyond the tree and a few presents but it freaks me out to this day.
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My childhood house caught fire one July 4th… fire work through the window.
I’m afraid of fire too. Also … I really like trees.
Thank you for mulching…
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Over the summer we went to a friends bonfire. They had saved their xmas tree and wreath to burn. It went up in seconds, all sparking, snapping and flaming. It was really something to see. If that’s what happens in a controlled burn setting I can’t imagine it going up in flames in the house.
was at the xmas tree festival today 
was great 
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My father’s cutting down of Christmas trees was ‘managed.’ Then a bulldozer would come + push them all down + had houses built there. As if nobody cared.
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Here is mine. 
It’s really a photo of my local decorating shop.
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What? No popcorn?
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I can go up to the sales associate and ask. They really should be more thorough.
Thanks, I appreciate it, lol.
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It’s true, taking the ‘tree’ out of it’s Walmart box and unfolding isn’t as good for the spirit as going out in the snow and lugging one back home where you begin to thaw out - cheeks last.
I like j’s practice of decorating outdoor trees - for the birds too.
Once I made a huge pine cone with p-nut butter, seeds, raisins on it and hung it in a tree. A scraggly old raccoon started showing up in the yard. They like p-nut butter I was told. Also if they are seen in the daytime they likely have rabies.
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We used to string popcorn and cranberries…
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We do that… birds love it.
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We decorate palm trees here in florida…
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Isn’t the green part too high up?
Look up ‘treevenge’ on YouTube. Warning, not for the faint of heart.