Putting up the Christmas tree as we prepare for a non-commercial Christmas season again this year. We are going to visit, do, share, donate, entertain and be entertained, but we are not going to spend much time in stores. Sorry business folk. But don't worry, we spend way more than we should year-round.
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Tersi Bendiburg Mine stays up and lit 'till Epiphany too.
Karen Smith Garland I agree 100%!!! Thank you for remembering the reason for the season....
Terrell Shaw If we ever become grandparents we'll probably go back to crass commercialism as we spoil grandkids! But maybe even then we can put a little more emphasis on experience than stuff.
Karen Smith Garland This is what we try to do with our son. However, I do admit that it sometimes difficult not to spoil. We're lucky though, in that he enjoys experiences too!!
John Paul Schulz commie liberal
Holly Kastanias Cothran I try to only buy handmade/vintage or "experience" presents. It's so wonderful to hear Landon say he wants to make a gift for someone rather than go shopping
Laurie Craw
It's a good time to support your local artists too. Back in the day when I was one, the Christmas shoppers sure helped me finance my stay-at-home mother work.
Howard Smith
Terrrell, like you, we are pretty much done with the shopping experience and spend far more time just enjoying the holiday season.
George Barton
So you went out and cut the tree, you didn't buy it commercially did you?
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This post will answer George's question above. :-)
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"Bah-humbug" has already escaped my grumpy ol' lips! Plugged in this &^%$#&^# tree and not one Sure-Lit™ light came on. You can be sure, alright, about Westinghouse, sure that it won't work the second season. I will NEVER again buy a pre-lit fake tree. They never work more than one season. GGrrrrr... (OK, that's off my chest, now back to a good attitude. You can do it, Terrell.)
Brian Barcomb Same here brother....same here
John McClellan We must be lucky. The prelit Christmas tree we bought six years ago worked again this afternoon the first time we plugged it in. That was after being bagged up outside under the carport since June.
Terrell Shaw John, are you rubbing it in here?
What brand do you have?
John McClellan Not rubbing it in. We bought a Martha Stewart Living tree on sale at Kmart.
Chris Goodwin
Lmbo. My son and I spent three hours cutting the prelit lights off our tree from last year because I couldn't make myself buy a new one when ours looked fine.....except for the lights that didn't work. I now have carpal tunnel from cutting over a thousand lights off.
Terri Morgan
Not sure what brand ours is...we got it at Lowe's about 4 years ago. Knock on wood; it's worked OK every year.
Neal Brackett Terrell, just because it is not working now does not mean that it won't eventually work. You have to give this time. You have to have hope. Why are you giving up so soon? You cannot expect these things to work without gliches.
Terrell Shaw Ours came from Lowe's too.
Terrell Shaw Chris, Sheila cut the old lights off our 7 ft tree last year.
Gola Burton
just add more lights. then more and more
Terrell Shaw
Very funny Neal. BTW the ACA website did not work well at first and has been slowly getting better. This blamed tree worked perfectly till the guarantee expired.
John McClellan Meanwhile, a third of the lights on a deer we put next to a spiral tree outside aren't working.
Neal Brackett I didn't say anything about ACA.... but I do note the irony.
Tersi Bendiburg
Mine has worked for several years now. I haven't tried it this year.
Barbara Jean Smith
Bob has said the very same thing! He ended up cutting all the pre-lite duds off and we just put light on each year
Jenifer Beaver
Ahem...okay. This is what has kept me from buying one of these. My first thought was, "one day those lights won't work."
Ruth Baird Shaw
Terry and Sheila...Get my nephew Ricky. over to help you!!!! My pre-lit tree is up and lit up as i write. (5 or 6 years old... He fiddled with the lights and got them working and his family have my tree decorated and lighted. Looks better than it ever has before!
Chandler Gray
Ours lit, but two BIG boxes of ornaments are gone!
Lynne Crothers Williams
Possibly some kind of karma for going with a fake tree.
Laurie Craw
It's that conflicted time of year again. Better for the earth to cut a live tree or buy and reuse a plastic one? Forget the live trees with roots. Cost too much
Lynne Crothers Williams The live trees are a renewable resource, planted specifically to be sold for Christmas trees, at least where we buy ours. At least as many are planted as are sold. Live trees with roots are too expensive and I had no luck with keeping it alive, even thru the first summer.
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