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bsn1752
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When did you/do you put your tree up?
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Re: When did you/do you put your tree up?
FI's 7ft real looking tree is in storage. I'm sure my colors will get vetoed next year and we'll start from scratch.
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We've been living together for the last few years, so we usually have an early dinner, take a nap, and then put up the tree! It's fairly traditional with red, blue, and gold!
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I put mine up the day before Turkey Day. Lights completed on Turkey Day, and now I'll decorate it!
I put mine up yesterday!
Had to kinda squeeze it in as we got a new sectional sofa this year which limited our options on where to put it.
No color theme... as beautiful as I think themed trees are, I have a lot of sentimental ornaments that don't go with anytheme... but its mostly red, green and silver.
We just have the tree up because we have a new one.
I hate the new tree
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We just got our 6ft tree delivered yesterday, it's quite roundish. We'll decorate later this week with our new red lights. Most of our ornaments are red with some green and some silver.
"The things I've done, the places I've been, just don't compare to the love I'm in, it beats all I've ever seen."
Our colors are green, red and white, with white lights. We debated a fake tree this year, but went with the real one again.
Also, I helped put my parents' tree up last night and today - theirs has no theme. There are lots of very old ornaments, and some of them look kind of sad, but I love them. There are also lots of handmade ones from when we were kids.
Little side story for ya - one more reason for me to love Christmas this year. In 1938, my grandparents got married - they were 16. Grandpa's mom, who we called Mother Eva, gave them some beautiful glass ornaments that are multicolored and have glitter on them, to decorate their first Christmas tree. In 1975, my parents got married, and my grandparents gave them that set of ornaments for their first Christmas. This is my first Christmas with my new husband, so today my mom gave me one of the ornaments. For each kid, she bought a glass dome with a little wooden base, and a little hanger-thingy, and then had each of the years engraved with 1938, 1975, and the year of each of our first Christmas. I can't wait to get it out of the box and put it somewhere!!!
That is a really sweet story.
I wanted to put up the tree on Friday, but I didn't go FI's house that day. We haven't had time to put it up this weekend. We are thinking maybe on Tuesday. We will see what happens.
Our tree isn't up yet. DH wants a new tree. But, of course they are all marked up right now. I think he's just going to have to wait until after Christmas and we can get a new one for next year. So, probably put the smaller tree up this weekend. We'll see. I'm still trying to convince him we need an all penguin tree.