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Subject: Christmas Trees
Ok......will someone here PLEASE remind me next year when I just have to truck my butt out and get myself a live Christmas tree, what a PAIN it is!!!!!!!
I finally decided to go and get a tree....(because I must have a live tree) only to get home and not have the thing sit in the stand correctly or even stand up at all!!! After over an hour of fighting with the thing and getting my dad over here to help......we got it to stand up....and straight mind you. But now I am scared to death to touch it or decorate it...in case the 5 screws and one HUGE nail we put in the bottom of it decides NOT to work anymore!!!
And the sad, sad thing is...I do this to myself every year.....only I made the ex fight the darn thing.....Now I know why he never spoke to me during this time of year!!!!!
Oh hell.....gotta run.....now the cat wants to see if he can climb it................. :o :o :o :o
Subject: Re: Christmas Trees
Haven't had a tree in years. We haven't been home for the holidays in years. We thought that this was going to be the year BBBBUUUUUUTTTTT NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! My honey's daughter is getting married so we will be away for the holidays again so no tree again this year :'( Maybe next year.
Cat
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I miss having a real tree.. :'(
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I told you ss, how much fun I had with your two nephews trying to hold the tree straight and secure the screws! I had forgotten how much work it was. But now when I walk in the house and the first thing that I smell is the scent of the tree, I don't seem to mind the extra work that it was to put it up!
Subject: Re: Christmas Trees
Do you own a piece of land, or know someone who does?
How about a small potted tree? It's alive, and since it's in a rather large flowerpot, it stays level through the holiday. Come spring, you plant it outside (which is why you need a piece of land, or a land owning friend.
I did that one year. I was able to get one that was almost three feet tall, and afterwards I planted it in my mother's backyard.
Less work, I still got that cool pine smell, and nothing had to die. :D
Subject: Re: Christmas Trees
I don't like having a live tree because it bothers me having to toss it out after Christmas...
Also I like having an artificial one, because I can put it up in November if I wish (I was way late this year -- did it last Thurday and Friday).
What I really want, tho' is one of those retro tacky aluminum trees from the 60s -- the ones you hated as a child, but they are waaaaay funky now! You know -- the ones that everyone's grandparents had, with the revolving color wheel! Have been trying to find one for years cheap at a garage sale -- they are going for big bucks on Ebay... :-/
Subject: Re: Christmas Trees
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I don't like having a live tree because it bothers me having to toss it out after Christmas...
Also I like having an artificial one, because I can put it up in November if I wish (I was way late this year -- did it last Thurday and Friday).
What I really want, tho' is one of those retro tacky aluminum trees from the 60s -- the ones you hated as a child, but they are waaaaay funky now! You know -- the ones that everyone's grandparents had, with the revolving color wheel! Have been trying to find one for years cheap at a garage sale -- they are going for big bucks on Ebay... :-/
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I really like those trees too! My G-ma had one but I don't know what happened to it... We had an all white tree one year, it was pretty but it wasn't Christmasy. At work I have brought a little rosemary bush shaped like a fur tree. It will have to be planted eventually, but it is really neat, it smells wonderful.
Subject: Re: Christmas Trees
I like our fake tree. It is always perfect, ornamants stay on it, and you don't have to worry about it catching on fire.
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My dad and stepmom had one of those aluminum trees way back in the early 70's, very retro to find one today. Autumn wanted a tree this year but I put the stops on that, we are going to her parents on the other side of the state for Christmas and doing my grandmas house the week before so were not celebrating to much at our hose, that and we have 2 8 month old kittens that are into desroying everthing. They would make nothing of a mess of it, next year.
Subject: Re: Christmas Trees
The thing I dislike about a real tree -
The unavoidable pine needles ending-up embedded in the carpet, no matter how well you water it or how well you vacuum. The needles seem to remain there forever too! :P
Subject: Re: Christmas Trees
Why not plant a pine tree outside your house, and then use that as a Xmas tree every year? :) I know it's not inside and you can't really put presents underneath without some buttpirate stealing them in the night, but it'd be really pretty.
Subject: Re: Christmas Trees
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I like our fake tree. It is always perfect, ornamants stay on it, and you don't have to worry about it catching on fire.
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I second that emotion.
Subject: Re: Christmas Trees
WHY CHRISTMAS TREES ARE BETTER THAN MEN
1. A Christmas tree is always erect.
2. Even small ones give satisfaction.
3. A Christmas tree stays up for 12 days and nights.
4. A Christmas tree always looks good - even when it's lit.
5. A Christmas tree is always happy with its size.
6. A Christmas tree has cute balls.
7. A Christmas tree doesn't get mad if you break one of its balls.
8. You can throw a Christmas tree out when it wears out.
9. You don't have to put up with a Christmas tree all year
10. You only have to feed/water it once a week.
11. It's always there to light up your life.
12. It gets turned on only when you want it turned on.
13. It always smells nice and doesn't pass gas.
14. If it needles you, you can toss it out.
15.It doesn't ask you to have little Christmas trees.