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Post by flhuntress on Nov 30, 2003 22:59:19 GMT -5
do y'all get real ones or use fake ones?
we get a real one each year and then it's decorated in orange and blue lights,gators everywhere,a couple sentimental ornaments,and then it's topped off with a stuffed deer (buck) instead of the usual angel.
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Post by deerslayer11 on Nov 30, 2003 23:19:55 GMT -5
My mom and dad always have a real one. I havent had one yet.
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Post by flhuntress on Dec 1, 2003 0:21:09 GMT -5
ds-
you need one...even if it's a charlie brown type!!!
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Post by Shorthair on Dec 1, 2003 6:19:05 GMT -5
Funny you should ask. My wife wore me and the kid down this and we got our first artificial tree.
DS you at least need to get one of those table top jobbies.
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Post by sswpriz on Dec 1, 2003 8:39:49 GMT -5
The wife and I have used artificials now for as long as I can remember. She has some ornaments that go way back to when her mother was a little kid and these were passed to her, some of these have to be 75 years old, hand blown ormnaments. My mother on the other hand has been getting real trees lately. I can remember as a little kid before I was old enough to go deer hunting with my father, he would always bring back a live tree from deer hunting at the end of November ! If we were lucky, there would be some needles left on it by Christmas day, LOL. Sometimes they would get the tree by shooting it with their deer rifles. One year they saw a beautiful tree, but it was the tip of a tall pine, they figured they would just shoot it down and have a real nice full tree....well I guess my dad and his buddy each went thru a box of shells and still couldn't get the tree tip to fall from about 40 feet up, LOL. That must have sounded good in the woods, LOL.
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Post by hunt4fun1 on Dec 1, 2003 9:20:58 GMT -5
This is our 3rd year to have a fake tree. I miss the real one but the fake is alot easier to take care of.
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Post by senecabow on Dec 1, 2003 14:25:11 GMT -5
3 trees --- 2 fake and one to make the house smell like Christmas.  |
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Post by BlueNorther on Dec 1, 2003 18:37:15 GMT -5
Been a fake one for a few years now but this year I tagged a couple while out hunting and think we'll cut one for Christmas.
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Post by Anne on Dec 1, 2003 20:26:08 GMT -5
Fakes from a big full one in the living room to pencil trees in the rest of the rooms..lol yup even have one in the bathroom.... we are big Christmasy type people...
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Post by GoTres on Dec 1, 2003 22:16:59 GMT -5
This will be our 2nd yr with a fake tree.
My wife hates it, but I got tired of paying for the real ones as tall as she likes them. Water 'em and wait on 'em and they'd die in about two weeks.
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Post by BUCKINTHEWOODZ on Dec 3, 2003 11:23:55 GMT -5
we usually get a real tree but last year we got artificial tree, i like the smell of a real one but gotta vacum the needles off the floor alot
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Post by GoTres on Dec 3, 2003 15:27:41 GMT -5
Look out BITW, those needles will kill your vaccuum cleaner in a hurry.
We put our fake one up last night. It went better than last year because of the way we put it away. Happy to say that it's popularity is on the rise.
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Post by noonebil on Dec 3, 2003 22:41:33 GMT -5
My wife loves a real tree...or at least she did until a couple of years ago.
When I took the tree down, I hauled it to the back yard & called her to watch. I threw a match at it & it burst into flames. It was like I had poured gas over it (which I did not).
We went to Wal Mart the next day & got an 8 footer on sale (reg $185 Sale $65). Have been using it ever since.
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Post by flhuntress on Dec 3, 2003 23:02:54 GMT -5
DID YOU DO THE FRESH TREE TEST?
THAT'S KINDA SCAREY IF THAT WAS A FRESH TREE.
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Post by GoTres on Dec 5, 2003 9:14:33 GMT -5
Bil, that's the original reason we got a fake one. Those things burn to nothing in about two seconds.
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