Have you put up your tree and decorations--inside or outside? It is very cold around here but I have seen trees in

[yellowdogintexas]

22. Not yet. Probably in a couple of weeks, and it will be our smallest one,maybe with only lights

We are both feeling too old and tired to fool with the big one and the 10000 ornaments. Plus, the room the tree would normally go in does not have a place for the tree. We have never done much outside since our daughter moved away but if I bother we put out lots of red mini lights on the hedges. I have an amazing garland with white mini lights in mass quantities that fits over our front entry and it is easy to hang.

When I was growing up, we never put the tree up until we got to the point that it would only be up about a couple of weeks and it always came down on New Year's Day.

Our trees came from my uncle's farm and were scrub cedar, which shed all over the place. My mom hated the mess; also being fresh trees, they were a fire hazard. We always had fun going out with my dad to get the tree though.

When the aluminum trees first came out my mom was ecstatic!!! Then we discovered that the reason we were all sick during Christmas was allergies to the cedar tree!!! At some point, we graduated to a real artifical tree.