Comments | jrittenhouse: Approaching the holiday season:

jrittenhouse

Approaching the holiday season:

Nov 22, 2010 12:27

Due to allergies in the family to fresh Christmas trees, we’ve been resigned this year to the idea of having to get an artificial tree…I hate the idea, but it’s far better than having people miserable until the tree gets chucked out of the house. Mere and I went off yesterday to check out a tree sale at Sears, and we had serious problems having a ( Read more... )

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Comments 5

johnridley November 22 2010, 21:44:03 UTC

We've had fake trees for 20 years - in fact we've never had a live tree. I've helped set up live trees and I've been to plenty of houses with live trees, and I just don't get it. Good fake trees, carefully decorated, look pretty good, and aren't bug-ridden fire hazards that you throw your back out and get covered with sap to put in, and get skewered 10,000 times trying to get back out again and have to vacuum around twice a day.

You want the smell, buy $8 worth of natural garland from your local boy scout or tree lot.

buggal November 22 2010, 23:50:03 UTC

Bah humbug! My husband talked me into a fake tree when we had our daughter - the "fire hazard" argument won me over. I love being able to have the tree up for a full month, though.

Xmas solitude anonymous November 23 2010, 03:02:49 UTC

(This is Kurt. Still can't get the damn lj login on comments to work)

Marathon wargames between the holidays sounds like a wonder notion. As I enter the wrong half of my 50s, I sometimes long to relive my teens and 20s. Wish you still lived as close as Findlay. Well, life goes on.

Re: Xmas solitude jrittenhouse November 23 2010, 05:11:06 UTC

Wish I did, too!

anonymous November 23 2010, 13:54:01 UTC

"Mere and Mer’s birthday is the 1st of December, so we’re still negotiating as to what to do about her party-for-friends; she wants to invite the group that she hangs with at school, the ‘brain table’, so to speak, but it’s half boys, and we feel really awkward about the idea of sending them down to the family room in the basement for games and such."

If you pop down there once or twice at the beginning with soda, cookies, or whatever, wouldn't that give them the idea that they are not really off on their own somewhere?

[Hey, I have no kids, so I'm just speculating!]

--Evelyn