• perviouslyiner@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    If you’ve got a ‘fake’ christmas tree, then absolutely display that thing every year for at least twenty years to lessen the environmental impact without the fire risk of bringing a real tree without roots indoors.

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      6 months ago

      I grew up with a plastic Christmas tree. It doesn’t go up every year in my parent’s house. I was pretty happy to see my parents pose with it this year. It’s now 35 years old.

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          There is a company that tried this as a start up actually. You’d adopt a tree, they’d deliver it in a big pot, then haul it back up a field after Christmas. It came marked so you’d get the same tree every year until the pot was too small, then they’d permanently plant it and give you a new tree.

          It’s a good idea but more expensive than I’d like, so fake tree for 20 years it is.

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      5 months ago

      Mine has existed for like 15 years… it lost many of its leaves and for the past 5 years we have been saying we’ll get a new one this year

    • Us too. Totally worth the $$, and especially getting a good one.

      But the GOAT is a legand my wife tells me about, from her chidhood. A friend of her mother’s was an elderly widow, a German immigrant. She had a parlor with a fireplace which she kept closed up, except for at Christmas. Then she’d open it up; it stayed perpetually decorated for the holiday, tree and all. At the end of the season, she’d put sheets on the furniture and close the room again until the next Christmas.

      I always admired Frau Erdle.

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    6 months ago

    My mom still has hers from the 90s, I kid you not. I think it is a Cole Brand tree or something like that. Looks small compared to the ones they sell now.

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    6 months ago

    There’s always the absolute joy of reaching your arm through what feels like barbed wire to connect lights.