Christmas tree, Real or Fake and how many?
Dec 13, 2023 07:17:27 #
Dec 13, 2023 07:31:27 #
Dec 13, 2023 07:57:41 #
kandydisbar
Loc: West Orange, NJ
Always do one real. Love the smell but haven't been inspired yet to get one. Stopped to look one place, 3ft tree $30 5-7ft $70. Covid gave everyone excuses for being greedy and I've always been "frugal." Will look this week.
Unfortunately more bad news. The music director I have been the contractor for brass with at the big church in Morristown , is moving to Nashville. Says the church doesn't have a budget for music anymore. So, no Christmas jobs or Easter services anymore. My luck sure has taken a dive this year!!!
Overall still have an optimistic outlook that a good opportunity will present itself.
Unfortunately more bad news. The music director I have been the contractor for brass with at the big church in Morristown , is moving to Nashville. Says the church doesn't have a budget for music anymore. So, no Christmas jobs or Easter services anymore. My luck sure has taken a dive this year!!!
Overall still have an optimistic outlook that a good opportunity will present itself.
Dec 13, 2023 08:03:30 #
kandydisbar wrote:
Always do one real. Love the smell but haven't bee... (show quote)
It's all about the $$$$$$. I guess the Big Church wasn't that big after all Kandy.
Dec 13, 2023 08:24:53 #
Dec 13, 2023 08:30:44 #
kandydisbar
Loc: West Orange, NJ
plumbob wrote:
It's all about the $$$$$$. I guess the Big Church wasn't that big after all Kandy.
Grew up playing in church for nothing, guess I'll be going back to it! Thankful I was given this gift and enjoy sharing it!
Dec 13, 2023 08:46:21 #
Foodfisher
Loc: SO. Cal coast
Depends where I'm at. Washington, the evergreen state, it's real. California, the golden state, it's fake.
Dec 13, 2023 09:34:20 #
plumbob wrote:
Just a fun survey.
I will start with 3 fake ones in our house.
I will start with 3 fake ones in our house.
Coolest tree I've ever seen was in a house that had a huge picture window in front side of it. They bought a fresh tree, must have been 25 to 30 feet tall, cut probably 7 feet off the top. They then mounted the lower portion centered in the window and the top part on the roof, aligned with the part in the window. Look like the tree had grown through the roof. Never seen one like that before or since.
Dec 13, 2023 09:46:43 #
plumbob wrote:
Just a fun survey.
I will start with 3 fake ones in our house.
I will start with 3 fake ones in our house.
This year will be our first fake tree in the last 25+ years.
Before now, I’ve always went out and found a small, well shaped cedar, and cut it down and trimmed it. This year, Myrna didn’t want me “trompin’ around in the woods”, so we got a small table-top size fake tree. She always decorates the tree as I watch.
🎅🏻
Dec 13, 2023 09:46:54 #
kandydisbar
Loc: West Orange, NJ
Bcmech1 wrote:
Coolest tree I've ever seen was in a house that had a huge picture window in front side of it. They bought a fresh tree, must have been 25 to 30 feet tall, cut probably 7 feet off the top. They then mounted the lower portion centered in the window and the top part on the roof, aligned with the part in the window. Look like the tree had grown through the roof. Never seen one like that before or since.
In Livingston Manor [fly fishing capitol of NY] there was a brewery that had a tree growing right in the center of the place. Really cool.
Dec 13, 2023 10:39:38 #
Dec 13, 2023 12:00:29 #
dbed wrote:
1 fake tree Susan is allergic to live evergreen trees
Same reason for me. My daughter chokes up walking next to a pine.
Dec 13, 2023 12:05:33 #
Flytier wrote:
Same reason for me. My daughter chokes up walking next to a pine.
I itch from the pine needles. Some kind of allergy there I guess.
Dec 13, 2023 12:46:28 #
Fake one for the first time ever. Cost last year was $80 for a 5 ft. tree and Kathy bought a fake one before last Christmas. Didn't open it till this Christmas and she's not real happy. Just not the same
Dec 13, 2023 12:58:25 #
Gordon wrote:
Fake one for the first time ever. Cost last year was $80 for a 5 ft. tree and Kathy bought a fake one before last Christmas. Didn't open it till this Christmas and she's not real happy. Just not the same
The real advantage of a fake tree is that I don't have to put the lights on it. I just put it in a closet I built for it in the basement.
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