Giant shrub erection

Is your tree up yet? Fake or real? Colored lights or single hue? Balls or varied? Angel or star? When does it come down?

Us: yup; real noble fir; white lights; ornaments from around the world, angel. About two weeks until mulch.

This didn’t go where I thought it might (thankfully!) :smiley:

A but early for us. Probably get this Saturday or Sunday and get rid of it before New Years.

Well this is disappointingly holiday-oriented. I’d hoped some member of the Bush family had inappropriately displayed himself in a public place.

le sigh

Yes
Fake (because we’re usually away for part of the holidays)
All white (although I’d be happy with multi)
Varied – same stuff year after year with lots of ornaments laden with personal meaning
Star – a very mid-century modern thing I got on clearance at Target last year
It’ll prolly come down Jan. 3.

I think if the tree stays up for more than four weeks, you’re supposed to call a doctor.

Fake, multi-colored lights, a variety of balls/cartoon characters/etc. which are mostly plastic because cats, and a red blown glass spire. I usually take it down on my first day off after New Year’s.

Fake pre-decorated tabletop treewhich I drag out of the closet every year from now until the day after Christmas.

Yes.

Real; 11 x Douglas Firs (we normally do one).

Normally, it’s a generic big tree with an assortment of decorations from the family collection and multicoloured lights.

The activity for this year’s Christmas party was to have 12 teams decorate trees in the flavour of the 12 days of Christmas (days 11 and 12 share the big tree). So the decorations are quite varied depending on skill and effort of the different teams.

We generally take the tree down sometime between Christmas and New Years Eve (after 3-4 weeks).

I haven’t put up a tree in more than a decade. When I did, it was a tabletop, real, and so gorgeous. I kind of miss it, but not the extra work and I gave all the decoration stuff away. When it was all dolled up, there were blue and white lights, lots of silver/red/crystal shiny globe ornaments, lots of gold-trimmed red velvet ribbon that ran from top to bottom, and a pretty, fluffy, angel on top. I guess it was a bit Victorian.

That was the first thing I thought too. Shrubya Bush.
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As for my tree… does not exist. I live alone and don’t bother putting up decorations.
Not a scrooge or humbuggy, just don’t see the point of it all, when I’m at work all day, and after coming home only for short while I go to bed.

But I do have a Grinch bobble head decoration somewhere. I had that out last year.
So, I’ll go get it right now and put it on the coffee table.

There… decorations done !!!

Thanks for the reminder. :smiley:

A fake table-top tree with the multi-color fiber optic doeys. Too small for our real ornaments but has our traditional kitchen sink theme: some small rocking horses and sleds, some Chinese happy balls, some "You’ll shoot yer eye out! ornaments including the leg lamp, M&M characters, various Santas—one’s on a bike and another one is riding a Coca-Cola lid. The top is adorned with a starched crocheted snowflake.

And wouldn’t there be a maximum of two balls?

To be sure. I was expecting a link to some kind of topiary porn… :cool:

i got a woody.

4’ fiber optic with tiny ornaments. We have a 6’ artificial (one of us is allergic to the real thing) but we don’t usually feel like digging it out and putting it up.

Comes down on the sixth.

I’ve got to take a photo of my neighbor’s bushes. I kid you not, there are two round bushes planted on either side of a tall, straight evergreen. Particularly when viewed from one of our upstairs window, it looks very much like a Giant Shrub Erection. In fact, my 17-year-old son and I have laughed about it on several occasions. Bonding with my kid, I am sniff

Got the tree put up last Sunday. Fake pre-lit tree with white lights. The bottom half of the top section wouldn’t light so I had to scavenge an old string of white lights and wrap it around that section. Still not decorated yet, my wife usually does that, but she’s been busy this week.

Yeah. Pics of Jeb getting into Bob Dole’s Viagra as he announces a presidential run? Its a thought too disgusting and hideous even for bleach.
“…but you don’t understand! Four and a half is pretty big for that family…” - Karl Rove style spin

6’, fake, pre-lit with white bulbs, decorations collected over 26 years of marriage, star on top. It will stay up until sometime in January, whenever we get up the gumption to take it all down and pack it up for next year.

When I get rich I’ll have the tree mounted on an elevator platform and a hinged floor that, at the touch of a button, raises the fully decorated tree from the basement. Once the season is over, push the button to lower it back into it’s storage space. What could possibly go wrong?