https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 12 May 2026 03:36:16 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-16658 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:36:53 +0000 Mrs. D 16658@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This will be my first Christmas with an artificial tree, every other year I've had a real one, but since we live in an apartment, we had no choice.<br /> The last time DH was home was the week before Halloween, and when walking through Zellers we found a display of last years display trees, and we bought one, only 13 dollars! If it lasts a few years, we'll be laughing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-16634 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:04:19 +0000 Rescuemom10 16634@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@NODAKADEMIC- That so made me laugh because I sooo understand. We get a real tree and we have 4 cats and they do the same thing. I have litterally found my tree on its side, water from the base on the floor and ornamets everywhere and some broken. Gotten better at getting "durable" ornaments and what not but yes! Hahaha<br /> We will be getting our tree day after Thanksgiving. Place we go to, you take a horse drawn carriage ride whith carolers into the woods. Pick you tree out and ride back. LOVE IT! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-16565 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:17:41 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 16565@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes! This is our first Christmas in our home instead of an apartment and I can't wait to put up a tree. We have an artificial one that we have been using for the past few years and I'm going to retire it. I might put it up in our bedroom. We're going to get a real tree for the front of the house. I just have to figure out how to keep the cat out of it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-16546 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:51:22 +0000 tequiero21 16546@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>if we get one, it'll be a really small one, like a foot tall. lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-16466 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:24:15 +0000 Mrs. Marbles 16466@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Definitely! I have been hoarding Christmas decorations and am counting down the days until I can put them up! We usually buy a fresh tree, but decided that'd it'd be safer to get an artificial tree since we'll be away the week of Christmas and don't want it to become a dried out fire hazard! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-16402 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:28:54 +0000 StbHisMrs 16402@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's a must! We live in the Christmas Tree capital! I started seeing the trucks and hearing helicopters 3 weeks before Halloween.<br /> We've made a tradition to go to a local farm, ride the tractor, pick our tree, they cut it and haul it back and bail it while we wait inside enjoying hot cocoa and cookies. My favorite way to start the Holiday season :)<br /> For my son's first Christmas we got a blue spruce, he was 8 months old and only touched it one. He learned really quick and so did the cats!! A blue spruce is absolutely gorgeous and smells so good, they're spendy and pretty hard to come by. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-9720 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:12:28 +0000 MsMini 9720@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love decorating for Christmas, I really can't see going without a tree. Every year, even when I was single I would go out and buy a tree that would barely fit in my house (one year I had to cut a foot off of the bottom to make it fit LOL). Now we have vaulted ceilings, so I can get these massive, beautiful trees! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-9567 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:03:16 +0000 cyndistar3 9567@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We most certainly are! And my husband says we have to get a real tree as he will not have a "pipe cleaner tree" in his house. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-9457 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:03:34 +0000 Adira 9457@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I <i>definitely</i> want to get a tree this year! We didn't last year because we went on a vacation during Christmas and we figured it would die in our house while we were gone, and kind of be wasted. so I definitely want to get one this year!</p> <p>And I'm with @Sweetchic and the others - a real tree is best! I just love the smell! PLUS going and picking out a tree every year is soooooo much fun! The only challenge will be getting it home. The year before, our friend went with us with their truck, but I don't know that they'll do it this year. Guess we'll see. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-9454 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:49:42 +0000 Meridian 9454@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes!! This will be our 5th Christmas together as a married couple, and I think we've had a tree every year! I always demand (yes, demand) a real tree, because that's what I always had growing up and it brings back such a sense of sweet nostalgia... </p> <p>The husband hates the clean-up part (the tree always ends up drying out and then drops bristles EVERYWHERE and the cleanup is massive, haha)... but luckily, he humors my requests. </p> <p>This tradition will be especially important when we DO have kids! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-9358 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 04:22:13 +0000 MH.Abroad 9358@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Day after Thanksgiving! Can't wait. Last year we hauled the tree up the outside of our apartment to the eighth floor window with a rope. The elevator was broken (Albania. Very common.) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-7579 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:18:23 +0000 looch 7579@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not this year, because we'll be away for three weeks in December. We didn't last year either because I was due on the 10th and had no idea when I would deliver and I didn't know if I'd be able to handle the aftermath of a live tree. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-7568 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:26:54 +0000 lavender 7568@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Always, I love the medium fat trees and with a real trea it just smells/screams Christmas! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-7535 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:55:03 +0000 Jenna 7535@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're redoing the floor in the living room, so we'll get a tree as long as it's finished in time. (Please, God, let it be finished in time. Peeling up 60+year old linoleum off of oak wood floors has been a pain in our butts!)</p> <p>I love choosing the perfect tree every year and decorating it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-7497 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:23:17 +0000 DillonLion 7497@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We use an artificial tree. I am so ready to start putting up holiday decorations. It is our first year in a house and first year to be able to put up Xmas lights outside. So excited!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-7476 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:29:07 +0000 mediagirl 7476@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Definitely! We have a fake one I bought from one of my mom's friends a few years ago. We used to buy real trees but, they're so expensive! Our fake tree works just fine and leaves just enough room for the star on top in the family room. :) GAH! I can't wait for Christmas!!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-7421 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:41:04 +0000 BSB 7421@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We bought a fake one two years ago and last year I bought a bigger tree after the holiday sales for a great price. My husband loves christmas so we will always have a christmas tree. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-7415 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:55:00 +0000 Laneybugsmommy 7415@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Andrea, I hope you're right but as I'm typing this my daughter has rolled under the coffee table and is chewing on its leg and about 5 minutes ago was half inside my entertainment center pulling everything out, so I highly doubt that a large Christmas tree with brightly colored lights is going to go unnoticed! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-7335 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:49:01 +0000 yin 7335@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes!! One of the fun parts of owning a house is being able to decorate the house with Christmas lights and setting up the Christmas tree. We buy our tree from a local boy scout troop around the corner from our house. I love the smell of a fresh tree, and decorating is so much fun. I cannot wait to share that experience with my LO! He might not remember his first Christmas, but we'll have plenty of videos and pictures to share with him. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-7260 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 19:26:25 +0000 Boogs 7260@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have an artificial tree we put up every year. We thinking as a safety precaution we may put a gate around it this year, though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-7253 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 19:02:48 +0000 Mrs. Sunglasses 7253@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We purchased an artificial tree last year and can't wait to put it up. Only thing it takes up all the space of Mavis toys. Luckily we will move things around. I just hope he won't break anything </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-7249 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:19:55 +0000 LazyLightning 7249@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a large, fake tree I plan to put up. The problem is our cats. We got the fake tree because they wouldn't leave the real one alone, but this fake one is even worse. They actually bend the branches, even. I spend the whole christmas season running back and forth through the house and shouting at the cats, clapping my hands, and sweeping up broken ornaments (or hunting down the unbreakable ones they pull off the tree).. Not looking forward to that. But I think we're having company this year, so we have to put it up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-7247 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:56:22 +0000 chopsuey 7247@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a mini Christmas tree that we picked up from Pottery Barn (it's about a foot high). Every year we been put one mini ornament from Hallmark on it. Will continue that tradition this year since our LO's too young to enjoy a tree. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-7240 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:32:20 +0000 Andrea 7240@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LANEYBUGSMOMMY - My daughter was 8 months and crawling last Xmas but she didn't bother with the tree or presents at all so you never know. I was surprised!</p> <p>I think we will put up a tree. It is just so beautiful and I love the smell. But I am a little worried that my daughter won't be so good this year! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-7236 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:43:43 +0000 alongfarview 7236@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeah, Christmas trees are pretty important to us (B planned the proposal around getting our first Christmas tree together). So we'll definitely have at least a little one every year. Even though we don't spend Christmas day at home, I love having the tree up for most of December. Makes the holidays feel more special to me! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-7234 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:35:06 +0000 eeh 7234@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Im highly, highly allergic to Christmas trees so I've always had artificial ones since I was 7 years old. When my husband and I were seriously dating we bought a fake one and he proposed while we were decorating our tree so it's an important tradition for us. Definitely will be a (fake) tree in our house. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-7232 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:28:19 +0000 Wondermommy 7232@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have an artificial one that we put up every year, but I kinda miss the nostalgia of a "real" tree sometimes. Don't miss the mess that goes with it, though, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-7231 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:23:53 +0000 duetletterpress 7231@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we have a little fake one that we'll be putting out. one day we'll get a large fake one. not sure when though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-7207 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:50:37 +0000 Laneybugsmommy 7207@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't do Christmas day at home but we probably will have my inlaws over for Christmas eve or pie Christmas night so I really want to put a tree up. Problem is, my daughter will be 8 months old and I'm sure crawling and into everything. Any tips for keeping a little one out of the tree (and the presents under it?) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-getting-a-christmas-tree#post-7201 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:09:58 +0000 MegWag 7201@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm hoping we at least get a small one. We don't have much room in our flat, but it will be my first Christmas away from my parents so I'm feeling the need to go all out in our new home. I left all my ornaments in a friend's attic in Dallas... maybe I'll get them to ship them.<br /> As a tip, make sure to put some jingle bell ornaments on the low branches of the tree. That way you can hear if Charlie is pulling on them and in danger of knocking it over! </p>