Help me decide!

**borzoimom** · 11-29-2006, 08:04 PM

Yea!!!! Tree is up huh??? Well I am glad! lol. I just want to see you happy. You could use a lift!

**catnapper** · 11-29-2006, 08:33 PM

Originally Posted by borzoimom

Yea!!!! Tree is up huh??? Well I am glad! lol. I just want to see you happy. You could use a lift!

Nope, not up yet. I am waiting til everyone is asleep tonight to put it up. I don't want ot be tripping over people, especially during hte lighting phase. I am absoultely obsessed with getting the lights perfect and I don't want to show everyone in the house how obsessive I am when I rip the same strand of lights off for the 5th time

**catlover4ever** · 11-29-2006, 11:09 AM

Kim, with the artificial tree is there any way to remove some of the branches. We do that at my mom's house because of the room/space issue. By removing some of the back branches it lets us move it closer to the window and out of the way.

**Blue_Frog** · 11-29-2006, 11:17 AM

If you wanted to go the route, maybe see if any of the tree farms in the area (and sometimes grocery stores) have littler ones that could go in a pot (the trees are like 2-3 feet high) - then, you'd have a much smaller tree that you could put up off the ground on top of a small table or something (away from baby), get the nice smell, don't have to worry about a stand, and could be transplanted somewhere once you're done with it so its' not a dead tree.

That would prolly take care of the dropping dry needles issue as well.

**catnapper** · 11-29-2006, 11:20 AM

Originally Posted by catlover4ever

Kim, with the artificial tree is there any way to remove some of the branches. We do that at my mom's house because of the room/space issue. By removing some of the back branches it lets us move it closer to the window and out of the way.

Did that last year!

Of course I can't find any pics of just how big the tree is in our livingroom.

I was trying to convince Ashley that we could remove the whole bottom set of branches completely but she thinks it'll look weird. I think it'll be ok if we pile a bunch of presents along the bottom.

**Vela** · 11-29-2006, 11:25 AM

Since she isn't paying for the tree, do what you want. For me I don't like live trees. Seems a waste to cut them down for a holiday like that, when so many get thrown out without even being bought. They are also much more of a fire hazard and require more maintenance, imo. I just prefer the artifical and if money is tight, do what works best for you.