Decorating is such a hassle

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 4:07 pm

I just got done puting up our tree and it took over 2 copulate hours to set up, and decorate, nd that sucks couse we are going to have to start over couse the damn thing fell over

IM SOO MAD ILL CONVERT TO JUDISM

daleighan · Post by **daleighan** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 4:35 pm

I'm not sorry... Jews are never sorry and never care about other people. I'm just kidding, but this really fulfills the stereotype of a self-hating jew. Funny how my family celebrates christmas and no jewish holidays though.

Post by **marshallh** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 4:37 pm

I don't have a christmas tree and I'm still a christian. Where the hell did people get the idea to put a stinkin' PINE TREE in their house? That's the kind of thing that makes you think, "WTF?!"

loup · Post by **loup** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 4:47 pm

marshallh wrote:I don't have a christmas tree and I'm still a christian. Where the hell did people get the idea to put a stinkin' PINE TREE in their house? That's the kind of thing that makes you think, "WTF?!"

It's origins are actually pretty old. It comes from when the only way to circulate the air in a house was to leave windows and doors open. Durring the winter they couldn't do this or they'd freeze to death, and they'd also keep their animals in the house too so they wouldn't die either. So the only way to keep the house from smelling like an outhouse they would skatter pine branches throughout to help a bit with the smell

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 5:02 pm

it was also a major fire hazard, and since they didnt have central heating back then, they all hoped their candle-laden, dried out pine tree would burst into flames for christmas

bioniclebert · Post by **bioniclebert** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 5:08 pm

I put up my christmas tree, put lights on it, took em off, took apart the tree, bought a new (fake) one and put that together, decorated it and such.

FUN WITH MATH!
1Hr getting the first tree up.
1/2 hour putting lights up and finding the dead ones...
a day contemplating wether to keep it or not. (I guess this dosent count)
1/2 hour taking the tree apart, de-lighting...
1 1/2 hour adding all decorations and using the new tree.

Lets add!
3 1/2 hours! Phew!

Mabye I can get a picture of this thing, It looks really cool.

Post by **bicostp** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 5:09 pm

I just pull out the tree from the attic every year. We keep a couple pine Car-Freshener little trees in the box to make it smell piney. (yes it's artificial

)

All our lights are LED lights this year, for some reason. I like the old-fashioned mini-bulb, or even C7 bulb better. I don't know why. Aw well it will only cost us a couple bucks to light the tree this entire year.

You know what I hate? all those blow-up decorations people have now. I don't know, they just look really tacky to me. The neighbors have some candy cane archway in front of their house, and one of the other neighbors has an 8' snowglobe with "real" falling snow.

It just looks so gaudy and obnoxious to me. Maybe we should mock them wityh a huge blow-up thing of our own. Maybe a blow-up second story for the house...

cowsgoquack101 · Post by **cowsgoquack101** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 5:18 pm

We got a real tree this year...1337ness!! Sorry for that. But it's still outside for right, just to let all of the branches fall into place.

bicostp your right those blow up Xmas decorations are really tacky. I'm going to shoot at my neightbor's with a pellet gun...

nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 7:52 pm

Time to grab the needle! Just run around in a ski mask, and pop all of them.

I don't understand how everybody can be getting so upset about christmas music and setting up decorations. Are you so obsessed with your computers that you can't see the beauty off it? I can understand not liking crappy rip-offs of christmas music, but the real songs have to power to make lift peoples spirits. I don't like seeing christmas decorations and hearing the music when it's still the first week of November, but we're now into december, which means that there's less than a month until it's all over. I can see bic and cows not liking tacky looking decorations, but atleast they didn't complain about the "hassle" of putting up decorations. I spend hours setting up decorations every year, sometimes when the temperature is below freezing, when the roof that I'm climbing on is coverred in snow, just because it makes the street look peaceful. Most of you get presents for Christmas too, which I'd think would be enough to make you think it's worth it.