My parents had two cats for a period of time who loved Christmas tree water. Once the season was over, my mom purchased pieces of pine tree and they had Christmas tree water for the rest of their kitty lives. So funny.
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One of my friend’s stories:
As is probably typical, my friend’s mother would dress my friend and her two brothers in their Christmas finery and take a posed photo of the three of them in front of their always real Christmas tree. Said tree was disposed of in a large, stocked pond on their property each year after the Yuletide season was over.
One year during their teen/tween years, mom realized (quite soon after the tree had been tossed in the pond) that she had forgotten to take the annual photo. She made them all go out to the pond (not dressed in their finery at all and in the freezing cold), had my friend’s older brother drag the tree back out of the pond and hold it upright while she took a photo of them looking terribly annoyed as they all stood around the wet tree.
She says it is now her absolutely favorite of these photos!
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My SIL and BIL went on their annual trek to cut down a tree with their three teenaged grandsons on Saturday. They cut it down, loaded it into the truck, and drove half an hour home. One of the kids was under the tree tightening the screws when he announced “there’s something in the tree. And it’s alive!” A small mouse jumped out of the tree and was quickly grabbed by my BIL.
I always make sure my husband bangs the tree on the ground a couple of times before it comes in the house, but I was always afraid of spiders…
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Last year we had two brand new kittens, 4 months old. They chewed through the lights. Hubby was unable to rewire them.
And of course when the boys were toddlers, we always had the tree with ornaments only on the top half or so as toddler would remove a lower one and mommy would replace higher.
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I was out of the country for two weeks until December 23 one year. Bad weather turn that into getting home on the 24th. We had two young daughters, but for some reason my husband waited until mommy got home to buy a tree! He and the girls went out to buy one and came home surprisingly with a fairly decent looking tree. He said “see, there was a reason I waited until the last minute! It was only $2!”
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That would be the LAST non artificial tree I would ever get!!
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We had a tree that fell over three times, and then we wired it to the window frame! all three times it was the middle of the night.
Our first year of marriage, we bought a tree almost as big as our apartment. We bought a box of ornaments at a yard sale, our moms gave us a few, but it was still 90% tree so we made paper chains out of grocery bags because we didn’t have any money.
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I crocheted enough ornaments to cover our first tree. Every year thereafter, collected ornaments starting taking over until there were only three left on the tree as a memento of those early years. I still have them all, though. Good times.
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When my husband was a kid, he and his sister were in the living room and their two cats ran and jumped up onto their Christmas tree and pulled it over. Luckily, no one was hurt, but some Christmas ornaments did break. And of course when their mom and dad came into the room, their first thought was that H and his sister had been rough-housing and knocked the tree over.
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When I was in college, I flew to join my sister in Ann Arbor. I was at her apartment. They had a tree but we were all broke. I had her give me a roll of wrapping paper and made origami ornaments while she and her room mate studied for finals. It was pretty and cheap.
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I remember making paper chains from old Christmas cards. We also used to sew cranberries and popcorn to hang around the tree. Now the cats would probably eat that stuff.
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Our first year of marriage we didn’t have many ornaments. So I also decided to sew cranberries and popcorn to hang on the tree. I used the cranberries that were in the freezer. By the morning they had thawed and dripped red juice all over the carpet around the tree.
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