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Christmas trees:
1. Do you have one every year?
2. Real or Artificial?
3. Colored lights or white?
4. When do you put it up?
5. When do you take it down?
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Re: Q(s)OTD 12/3
1. Do you have one every year? We didn't last year due to wedding, Hurricane Sandy and going to NC Thanksgiving and Christmas. NEVER AGAIN! I missed my tree!
2. Real or Artificial? Artifical due to traveling
3. Colored lights or white? White!
4. When do you put it up? I wanted to before Thanksgiving, but it's going up tonight.
5. When do you take it down? As late as H lets me have it up!
1. Do you have one every year? Yes! It's a must!
2. Real or Artificial? Fake. I've never had a real tree. The smell bugs me!
3. Colored lights or white? White.
4. When do you put it up? I usually put it up the weekend after Thanksgiving, but since we were out of town this year, I put it up the weekend before.
5. When do you take it down? If I'm not too lazy, after New Years.
2. Real or Artificial? Artificial
3. Colored lights or white? White, our tree is pre-lit
4. When do you put it up? Usually the weekend of Thanksgiving or the weekend before
5. When do you take it down? Eh, whenever we get around to it, usually sometime in January
1. Do you have one every year? YES--last year we were so broke and we still scraped up enough $ somehow because we are Christmas warriors! lol
2. Real or Artificial? REAL all the way
3. Colored lights or white? Colored on the tree, white on the patio
4. When do you put it up? The first day of Advent.
5. When do you take it down? New Year's Day
2. Real or Artificial? I grew up with artificial trees, and I was so excited to get my first real tree a few years ago! I'll never go back to artificial trees!
3. Colored lights or white? white
4. When do you put it up? Always after Thanksgiving, we're getting our tree today actually
5. When do you take it down?A few days after New Years Day...sometimes we leave it up until Mid Jan, but I'm usually sick of it by then.
1. Do you have one every year? Yes=)
2. Real or Artificial?artificial, H wants real, but i told him when the kid(s) get older we can start that tradition
3. Colored lights or white?white
4. When do you put it up?i think dec 6 is the tradition, but this year we did it two days after thanksgiving, we just need to decorate it!
5. When do you take it down? the epiphany, in Jan
Most years.
2. Real or Artificial?
Artificial, but my family had real trees when I was growing up and I would love to have real ones again. Maybe next year.
3. Colored lights or white?
White
4. When do you put it up?
Normally it would be up by now (I try for Thanksgiving weekend, if possible) but we are moving on Saturday so hopefully soon after that.
5. When do you take it down?
It varies, but usually the beginning of January.
1. Do you have one every year? Yes!
2. Real or Artificial? Artificial because I'm allergic to pine trees
3. Colored lights or white? Colored lights - that's what our pre-lit tree came with.
4. When do you put it up? Usually the Sunday after Thanksgiving.
5. When do you take it down? Usually a few days after Christmas (sometimes we still have presents under the tree)
2. Real or Artificial? artificial.
3. Colored lights or white? white. always had colored as a kid though. white lights was an adjustment, haha
4. When do you put it up? usually two or three days before Thanksgiving
5. When do you take it down? I try to have it down before my birthday (Jan. 5th)
1. Do you have one every year?
Yes! Although this will be the first year that DH and I have our own individual tree since it's our first Christmas not at our parents'.
2. Real or Artificial?
Artificial. My allergies would never allow me to have real.
3. Colored lights or white?
I'm a sucker for the colored ones. But white does look very pretty.
4. When do you put it up?
Usually after thanksgiving.
5. When do you take it down?
Theoretically, plan for at least around new years. Due to my mom's health the one year, we did have the "easter tree"
1. Do you have one every year?
I put one up every year. I hate my tree and am not putting it up this year
2. Real or Artificial?
The tree I have an artificial, tabletop tree. I'm over it and I want a real tree. My parents got a real tree every year since I was 9. H's parents also get HUGE real trees.
3. Colored lights or white?
I can go either way on a tree, I have white lights though. Outside, I only like white lights.
4. When do you put it up?
I usually put it up around the 10th, or the closest weekend.
5. When do you take it down?
Before I got back to work, after New Year's Day. Sometimes I take it down on New Year's Day.
1. Do you have one every year? we have every year we've lived together. When we were in the apartment, our roommate did the big tree, but H and I got mini trees for our bedroom.
2. Real or Artificial? Real, even the little ones!! (Although we do have 2 artificial mini-trees)
3. Colored lights or white? I'm a huge fan of colored lights, so we have those on our main tree. The outside and our mini-trees are white lights, which I like as well.
4. When do you put it up? We put it up this past weekend!
5. When do you take it down? We'll see...January sometime.
1. Do you have one every year? yes
2. Real or Artificial? artificial
3. Colored lights or white? white, I despise multicoloured christmas lights
4. When do you put it up? Anytime between Nov 12th and Dec 1st
5. When do you take it down? Usually the 2nd weekend of January.