After buying our house this year, we’re in extremely dire financial circumstances which preclude us from decorating for the holidays. So knowing that Dopers are a happy and obliging bunch to share pictures, I thought perhaps I (and others) could get the ol’ jones satiated by looking at your trees instead. 
Y’all wanna help out the tree-challenged then? If so, post your best or funniest or most Charlie Brown-ish efforts forward. The angels will reward you.
Thanks guys!!
I’ll post when it’s dark and I can take proper pictures. We have an outside (real) tree this year, as well as our usual inside fake tree. I’m allergic to the real ones, and my husband loves them.
Thanks Ginger, I’ll be looking forward to it! Now, anybody else wanna Santa up? 
It’s kind of hard to take a good photo of a tree with all the lights on. frustrating, even!
Most of these are from last year, but things look much the same this year:
Here’s our pantheon of tree toppers.
Oooooooooooooooh! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! So shiny and pretty!! I especially like all the tree toppers and the kindergarten banner. So very, cery cool. Thanks for sharing you guys!
Well, this is ours, what do you think?
Impressive.
Is that a ship in the Christmas Village??
Yes, we usually but down a blue cloth napkin to be the “water” and a little buoy as well. We also use ancient GE Lighted Ice bulbs, thank E-bay!
Icerigger, that’s gorgeous! It looks like something out of a Currier and Ives picture.
A friend from work gave me a couple of those she made. So beautiful. I just can’t figure out how to do it.
No tree up yet. Not sure we’ll have a tree up this year. I’m never home to do it, and nobody else cares. Sad, huh?
I should bring you one ! =p
The stars are very easy, if you go by Village Beads in Ridgeland and get some pre-made wire thingys. Otherwise you have to make your own with wire from Michael’s. Don’t get your beads at VB though! (They’re VERY proud of their stuff). Get your beads from Michael’s. The only other thing you need is a pair of needle-nose pliers, to turn down the ends. It is great fun for kids.
Icerigger: That is awesome. I think some blue shiny paper would work too.
Here’s my tree! The naked bottom third of the tree is thanks tothese guys. I also have to be sure to buy shatterproof ornaments and anchor the tree to a wall. Somehow my little Horton managed to get tangled up in a low section of lights and ran off scared, ripping about 6 feet of light strand from the bottom of the tree. Sigh.
I have a lot of special ornaments on my tree and I’d love to post pictures of them, but it’s hard to keep the camera steady enough for them to really show up well. I"ll work on it.
Did it myself!
Both of you, I love them! And yeah, kitties can really mess up your Xmas tree mojo.
Keep 'em coming everyone and show off those pretty sparklies!!
Top of bookshelf (taken in 2007, but it looks the same)
Fireplace (also taken in 2007, only change was that we added bigger stockings for our 2 cats)
Whoops! Wrong picture posted. The previous one makes the angel look scary and it’s too late to edit the link. I have corrected in my quote above.
I swear your tree looks photoshopped lol… is it real???
Our tree http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/7913/xmasxi6.jpg
