# Christmas Tree Skirts **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 24, 2016, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-tree-skirts/775542 "2016-12-24T17:16:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-tree-skirts/775542/1 "2016-12-24T17:16:17Z")
If you decorate a Christmas tree, do you have a tree skirt underneath it? If so, what does it look like? Ours has a holly pattern on a white background. My mom has a red and green plaid one that a neighbor made for a fundraiser for a community organization they’re both involved in. It’s very pretty and Mom was horrified when nobody else bought it so she bought it herself. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-tree-skirts/775542/2 "2016-12-24T17:24:56Z")
Yes. We have a red and green plaid one. When I was first married I had a pretty white felt one, but thirty years of that took away the look of “gently used” and “vintage” and replaced it with “rag”, so we replaced the skirt. Growing up it was a white twin bedsheet wrapped around the trunk, and it looked fine. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-tree-skirts/775542/3 "2016-12-24T17:41:26Z")
Yes, I have a silver tree skirt with a snowflake pattern. Also have a matching bow to go on top of the tree. I think it was a Martha Stewart special from K-Mart, I bought it about 10 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-tree-skirts/775542/4 "2016-12-24T18:09:13Z")
I don’t think my mother ever used a tree skirt because I always remember the cat drinking out of the Christmas tree stand. I have a Martha Stewart K-Mart special, too, bought on clearance probably 10 years ago. It’s gold-colored satin with appliqued partridges and pears. Fake trees need skirts, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-tree-skirts/775542/5 "2016-12-24T18:17:08Z")
I have a little tree I put in my front window. I have to have it propped up to clear the couch, so the tree is on top a cardboard box. To cover the cheap looking tree stand and the box, I have a little 18" tree skirt that is a plush red with a black trim. I bought it a few years ago the day after Christmas on deep discount. For some reason this little tree skirt makes me very happy. I guess it just makes my tree look legit! ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-tree-skirts/775542/6 "2016-12-24T18:51:45Z")
Ours is like a circular quilt with various squares with holly, a starry night scene, a tree, an angel, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-tree-skirts/775542/7 "2016-12-24T19:53:14Z")
[This](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/af/80/b1/af80b1d47eaa8ebea7bde6c5687a511b.jpg) is my Christmas tree skirt. (Unless I’m lying.) While looking for the image, I found [this](http://www.frontgate.com/golden-holiday-entertaining-collection/927204?SourceCode=ZZ51120) Christmas tree skirt. It’s a hundred dollars off! Only one kilobuck! (Well, $999. Close enough.) When I was growing up, we just used a white sheet. ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-tree-skirts/775542/8 "2016-12-24T20:23:54Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > [This](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/af/80/b1/af80b1d47eaa8ebea7bde6c5687a511b.jpg) is my Christmas tree skirt. (Unless I’m lying.) > > While looking for the image, I found [this](http://www.frontgate.com/golden-holiday-entertaining-collection/927204?SourceCode=ZZ51120) Christmas tree skirt. It’s a hundred dollars off! Only one kilobuck! (Well, $999. Close enough.) When I was growing up, we just used a white sheet. I like the sheet idea, maybe it’s because we use a cloth tablecloth. It doesn’t fit the table and it’s festive, so whatever works. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-tree-skirts/775542/9 "2016-12-24T20:52:54Z")
I have an artificial tree. The tree skirt is (fake) velvet, dark red body, dark green binding with gold scroll trim. Growing up, the tree skirt was weird white cotton batting with glitter. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-tree-skirts/775542/10 "2016-12-24T23:05:15Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > [This](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/af/80/b1/af80b1d47eaa8ebea7bde6c5687a511b.jpg) is my Christmas tree skirt. (Unless I’m lying.) > > While looking for the image, I found [this](http://www.frontgate.com/golden-holiday-entertaining-collection/927204?SourceCode=ZZ51120) Christmas tree skirt. It’s a hundred dollars off! Only one kilobuck! (Well, $999. Close enough.) When I was growing up, we just used a white sheet. Yeah, but it’s 55% off, if you enter the special code when you order! That knocks it down to a mere $549! ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-tree-skirts/775542/11 "2016-12-24T23:35:42Z")
A dog chewed ours up ~25 years back, never replaced it. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-tree-skirts/775542/12 "2016-12-25T00:25:06Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > A dog chewed ours up ~25 years back, never replaced it. So… You shot the dog, and decided not to get another one? ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-tree-skirts/775542/13 "2016-12-25T00:34:44Z")
> [@peedin](#): > > I have an artificial tree. The tree skirt is (fake) velvet, dark red body, dark green binding with gold scroll trim. Growing up, the tree skirt was weird white cotton batting with glitter. Oh, we had one of those batting ones growing up! I had a lovely red and green plaid tree skirt, and a while back it was one of those things where I opened the holiday decoration boxes and it wasn’t there. So I figured it must have gotten put into the wrong box, or maybe at the back of a closet, and that it would turn up eventually. In the meantime, I picked up the cheapest of the cheap red felt circles at the dollar store. Fast forward 10 years, and the nice one has yet to turn up, and I was just looking at this red felt rag and wondering why I’ve never gotten it together to go replace it with a nice skirt. Probably because as soon as I do that, I’ll find the original red and green plaid in the linen closet. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-tree-skirts/775542/14 "2016-12-25T01:10:10Z")
What do you find under the tree skirt of your Scotch pine? Christmas balls! What the %\*#^$ is in this egg-like nog? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-tree-skirts/775542/15 "2016-12-25T06:36:30Z")
My tree skirt is made of cat fur. Both cats enjoy lying under the tree.