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Kelly, yes, i usually get a real tree, but i also have a little fake 5 ft tree that i've used when getting a real tree wasn't practical.

Posted by Andie (aka Andie) Oct 20 '09, 11:39

also, you can go to tree farms here (well, north of here, but close) and cut your own. They hand out hot choclate, take you to the bush on the tractor pulled, hay covered, trailer, you pick your tree, use the little axe/saw to chop it down then the trailer picks you up and they wrap it and strap it to your car roof.

THAT is awesome, but expensive.

we can get live trees from ikea, for $20. The money goes to the boy scouts, AND you get a $20 ikea GC (only good for purchases %75 or more, good till March.)

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we buy little potted trees and if they don't die while inside we plant them in whiskey barrels, now that we have a half dozen we are re-thinking that -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 20, 11:44 3
- i love the re-usable live tree. - Andie Oct 20, 11:47 1
  - actually we tried that but if they don't have constant water they don't survive, remember trees have thousands of pine cones but only a couple little - zeitgeist Oct 20, 11:54
- Tired of drinking that much whiskey each Christmas? - Spawn Oct 20, 11:45
Your first paragraph is how we got our tree every year when I was growing up. - kelly Oct 20, 11:42 6
- That's what attics are for. (Not for hiding Non-Balloon Boys.) -- nm - JaxSean Oct 20, 11:44 4
  - I almost posted, "A tractor? I prefer my annual trip up to the attic, thank you." -- nm - Spawn Oct 20, 11:46
  - and basements and garage rafters. :) -- nm - Andie Oct 20, 11:46 2
    - Our Attic is basically above the garage, so it's one in the same for us. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 20, 11:49
    - I'll have to check out how much room we have in our "attic". - kelly Oct 20, 11:48
- same here. - znufrii Oct 20, 11:43
nmbAndie - Hotkiss Oct 20, 11:41
(nb - i also have 'douglas fir room spray' - i use it all christmas too, just to exagerrate the tree smell.) -- nm - Andie Oct 20, 11:39 3
- for some reason, I now have a mental image of you prancing around in footie PJs spraying tree smells everywhere -- nm - Beryllium Oct 20, 11:47 2
  - this wouldn't be entirely wrong. -- nm - Andie Oct 20, 11:48 1
    - Duh. "footie PJs"? Try "teddy". -- nm - Spawn Oct 20, 11:51

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Kelly, yes, i *usually* get a real tree, but i also have a little fake 5 ft tree that i've used when getting a real tree wasn't practical.

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Kelly, yes, i usually get a real tree, but i also have a little fake 5 ft tree that i've used when getting a real tree wasn't practical.