Okay, so what day does your tree go up?
Discussion
Our family has a Christmas Tree Tradition. Or should it be more correctly termed a competition.
I always insist on a real "floor to ceiling" tree. She ( the Mrs) keeps theatening that she will buy an artificial tree.
I also insist that the tree must be a bargain and I normally go and fetch it by myself as the Mrs finds my haggling over the last tree in a garden centre demeaning.
"Mate, I'll give you £4 for it now or you'll get nothing and you'll be putting it through the shredder in 30 minutes."
The best bargain I ever had cost me nothing as it was the top ( of course) quarter of a huge tree in the reception of my Mr's work....it was getting taken down by the specialist xmas tree installers the next day prior to Xmas shutdown.
The cheapest I ever paid cash out for was £1 on December the 23rd.....brilliant.
Two years ago I got a lovely tree for £4 on the 23rd.
Last year pickings were a little thin. A couple of forays yielded little opportunities for my traditional Xmas bartering.
It got to the morning of the 23rd. I was read the riot act re tree purchasing ( home with a tree be it real or artificial) by the Mrs who decided that she was coming along.
In the first garden centre not half a mile from our house we went to there was a lovely tree for £35. "No way" says I and we start doing the rounds.
Two hours later we are back at the first place.
Cowed by the the evil stares from the Mrs, the threat of an indestructible fake tree ruining my Xmases for ever more, and the complete refusal to negotiate of a licenced bandit in a green Gilet with a tree embroidered over where his cold heart hardly beated, I ended up paying the most I have ever paid for any tree.
£35...........buggar.
So my answer to the original question is either A) When they are cheap enough or B)when the Mrs tells me to.
Cheers,
Tony
I think its all now a christmas tradition.
I always insist on a real "floor to ceiling" tree. She ( the Mrs) keeps theatening that she will buy an artificial tree.
I also insist that the tree must be a bargain and I normally go and fetch it by myself as the Mrs finds my haggling over the last tree in a garden centre demeaning.
"Mate, I'll give you £4 for it now or you'll get nothing and you'll be putting it through the shredder in 30 minutes."
The best bargain I ever had cost me nothing as it was the top ( of course) quarter of a huge tree in the reception of my Mr's work....it was getting taken down by the specialist xmas tree installers the next day prior to Xmas shutdown.
The cheapest I ever paid cash out for was £1 on December the 23rd.....brilliant.
Two years ago I got a lovely tree for £4 on the 23rd.
Last year pickings were a little thin. A couple of forays yielded little opportunities for my traditional Xmas bartering.
It got to the morning of the 23rd. I was read the riot act re tree purchasing ( home with a tree be it real or artificial) by the Mrs who decided that she was coming along.
In the first garden centre not half a mile from our house we went to there was a lovely tree for £35. "No way" says I and we start doing the rounds.
Two hours later we are back at the first place.
Cowed by the the evil stares from the Mrs, the threat of an indestructible fake tree ruining my Xmases for ever more, and the complete refusal to negotiate of a licenced bandit in a green Gilet with a tree embroidered over where his cold heart hardly beated, I ended up paying the most I have ever paid for any tree.
£35...........buggar.
So my answer to the original question is either A) When they are cheap enough or B)when the Mrs tells me to.
Cheers,
Tony
I think its all now a christmas tradition.
Tony427 said:
The cheapest I ever paid cash out for was £1 on December the 23rd.....brilliant.
There's a shop near me owned by the most miserable sod you can think of - sells all kinds of tat & last year decided to start selling trees. Now despite their being a really good garden centre about a mile down the road, and one of those places you can pick your own & they chop it for you a mile the other way, this bloke who has never sold trees decides his are much better & charges about £20 more than the other 2. Obviously that, combined with him being a well known miserable sod means the day before Christmas Eve he's hardly sold any trees. On Christmas Eve, he's realised that he's got about 50 trees outside his shop & he's sick of bringing them in and out so he has a huge sale on his trees and offers..........£2 off.
Seriously - not £2 for a tree, but £2 off.
I saw him in January at the tip arguing because they wouldn't let him in to dispose of his trees
18th December, down again on the 27th
Don't believe in the commercialisation of Christmas, having trees up in November is just sad, by the time Christmas comes around it will have completely blended into the household scenery and will no longer be anything special.
And don't even get me started on fake trees... if you're going to have a tree, at least have a proper one.
Don't believe in the commercialisation of Christmas, having trees up in November is just sad, by the time Christmas comes around it will have completely blended into the household scenery and will no longer be anything special.
And don't even get me started on fake trees... if you're going to have a tree, at least have a proper one.
OpulentBob said:
GetCarter said:
I live in a forest full of pine trees. House is surrounded by them. Seems little point!
Do you decorate any? Like, the closest one to your place, or at the end of the drive, etc?This is the veiw from one of the upstairs windows:
GetCarter said:
I did consider it, but they are mostly taller than the house... so it'd be a bit of a task!
This is the veiw from one of the upstairs windows:
You need to stick a star or a plastic angel on top of one This is the veiw from one of the upstairs windows:
I don't like having it up before december, however i thought next weekend was the 1st of december so i agreed to do it then >_>
GetCarter said:
I did consider it, but they are mostly taller than the house... so it'd be a bit of a task!
This is the veiw from one of the upstairs windows:
That's brilliant, as they're a permanent addition I suppose I'll let you off. This is the veiw from one of the upstairs windows:
Regarding real trees, I've always had artificial ones, that'll change this time! This year is our first Christmas in our new house we've bought together and I genuinely can't wait to do the ceremonial tree buying. I'm a complete novice so not sure what I'll end up coming home with..
t. Get some baubles on them.
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