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This is how bad my luck is...
My mom bought a new Christmas tree and promised both my siblings and I we could have the old one at some various time in the past. Well, my sister was flying at THanksgiving so she couldnt take it and she told my brother and I we could draw straws. Well my aunt mentioned she had one they didnt use since my grandma passed away so she would bring it over. So I told my brother he could have mom's and I would take my aunt's as they were supposed to be the same, both 7' trees.
Well -- we get my aunts, its only 6' which is the same as the one we wanted to replace, but at least it did look like better quality (I bought our old one for less than $20 one year) so we took it with us back to Kentucky. Then we get it out of the box and its missing one of the legs of the stand. Well the legs from our old tree fit and were only a couple inches shorter so we used those. It seemed fine. We decorated it last Monday and all was good.
Fast forward to yesterday and the tree out of nowhere goes crashing to the ground, shattering about half of our ornaments and making a giant mess of glass of branches, etc all over our dining room. I salvaged the ornaments that I could and untangled branches from lights and threw the whole mess in the garbage. So now we have a poinsettia plant sitting on an empty shelf in the corner and no tree at all. I haven't decided if I'm even going to bother trying to find another one before Christmas or not after we've now thrown away 2 in the past week, I feel like my Christmas spirit went out with the broken tree.
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So sorry to hear about the trees. That has to be frustrating...and broken ornaments could be upsetting if they were nostalgic ones.
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Luckily most of the meaningful ones survived - I think we only lost 2-3. The majority of the shattering were just decorative at least.
And yeah I know -- time is flying. Although I'm sure January/February are going to crawl by because by then I'll just want it to be over.
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We may be waiting - depends what we can find for cheap because I don't want to buy another crappy tree but I dont want to spend a bunch of money on one right now either. I'm hoping they are already on sale.
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Oh no Hawki! That sucks. I'm glad most of the important ornaments were okay though.
Our tree fell over one year on Christmas, right before our oven blew up. So I suppose it could have been worse!