Lil - 2005-12-01 09:33:56
There are some really nice green fake trees. Besides, look at it this way, a fake tree is reusable, so you don't kill a tree each year for a couple of weeks use. Or something. As for the white tree, at $40 bucks, if it's a mistake you can always give it to goodwill next year.

wee - 2005-12-01 09:40:47
Sound advise, Lil! You've sold me! But I should point out that it's kind of a toss-up on the fake tree/real tree front. You can reuse a fake tree year after year, but they don't decompose and will sit in a landfill for centuries. You can have the real tree mulched and there is a program here where they mulch your real trees and then use it for landscaping. But, yeah, it means you kill a tree year after year.

breana - 2005-12-01 10:25:47
Yeah! Get a white one! It's just as fake as pink, half as expensive, and it's good enough for Lawrence Welk! I think the Frozen Lady would enjoy it. I like the spindly kind, the kind that scream, "We are NOT a real Christmas tree," and get decorated with weird things. Also, do you know that you can get small firs in pots? It won't die! You can plant it in the yard!

breana - 2005-12-01 10:35:56
Your comments are going to think I'm spam, but here is a link to an article about living Christmas trees. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6753079/ The other thing is that a cut tree grows mold on the inside, which caused my holiday illnesses every year before my mom broke down and bought a fake pre-lit tree.

lizardek - 2005-12-01 10:40:41
You can change the color scheme every year, too! Just think how great a white tree with PINK ORNAMENTS will look! :D

meew - 2005-12-01 11:20:03
up with wolfparade! look you can vote for them here: http://www.plugawards.com/general_vote.php re: moodiness. but. how. yaaaaawn. boring. to be stable at all times, oui??

whisper - 2005-12-01 11:48:27
I am not a practising christian, but do love christmas. all the ritual that goes with it. we get an advent wreath and hang it from the ceiling with three blue ribbons. we put and light one candle for each of the 4 sundays leading up to christmas, on christmas eve we take the wreath down and put up the tree. advent is about anticipation and the wreath is a delight, with the candles and ribbon, simple but special. we also make a table with earth elements corresponding to the weeks before christmas, first rocks, second plants, third animals, fourth people. prune a few branches for a wreath, dip some beeswax candles (the smell is heavenly) gather up some things for the table and feel the peace. no dead trees, no landfill plastic. i'm part of the wildly swinging mood club. i believe it is depression. i'm glad that i live in this era, thinking that not too long ago they would probably have locked us away, and performed experiments on us. that is so many words, but i feel your angst with the christmas thing, and advent is more fun than christmas for me. I wonder what bhuddists do for christmas. peace

karos - 2005-12-01 15:12:05
White is so '60s! I love the idea. And tarting it up with retro mod ornaments. Like, all in red. Or red and green only. Or green only. Or...black and white and red! Your Wee tree should be funktastic, like you. Your mom sounds like a real card. I didn't know that about her. I'm up and down like a toilet seat too. I think it's Christmas and the scary-looking bank account. Damn kids and their damn food and shelter. Pfah!

Lil - 2005-12-02 08:42:28
Laughing here. As soon as I had posted that comment, I thought, yeah, it's reusable, but.... I've used all sorts of wierd things as Christmas trees. One year I took a wooden stepladder (about 6'high), painted it green and decorated it. It looked really good and was a hit with the cats - who had tore down the tree a few times the previous year - they spent their time perched in it playing with the ornaments. I also once painted a tree directly on the wall - only do this if the room is due for repainting... :-)

lizardek - 2005-12-05 02:19:14
Cool December banner, Wee...I love the waterdrop effect :)

violetismycolor - 2005-12-08 00:01:39
There were a couple of years to we went to Florida for Xmas to visit my MIL (thank God she lives here now!) and we didn't get a tree of any kind. I couldn't bear to put a fake one up (old hangover from my youth when my parents had a silver tree that we had to assemble and disassemble every year). But I so missed the smell and look of a real tree in my house. So what are you going to do?

tinker - 2005-12-09 21:08:34
The suspense is killing me - what tree will be Wee's? I saw a lavender tree on someone's site, can't remember whose though...Hope the hungry ghosts didn't eat you & the wolf up, Wee!

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