Stupid Guest Tricks

When talking about aluminum Christmas trees does anyone else think about the scene in the Charlie Brown Chrismas where he and Linus go looking for a real tree and all they can find are the aluminum kind? I love that show, but some of the stuff in it doesn't always come across to kids now.

My Grandparents had an Aluminum Tree....and the rotating lighted color disc that went under it to change it to different colors.....It looked cool with their Aqua-Green Vinyl Couch. :p:

DisneyMom wrote:My Grandparents had an Aluminum Tree....and the rotating lighted color disc that went under it to change it to different colors.....It looked cool with their Aqua-Green Vinyl Couch. :p:

I LOVE that retro look, it is really very chichi to decorate like that now! :p: hahaha...I remember those rotating disc lights. We were NEVER allowed to have a fake tree growing up, even though I loved those aluminum trees with all the shiny lights! (I still love shiny things, thus my penchant for Disney pins. Ralph is lucky I don't really care for jewelry that much. LOL!) I thought it would be cool to have one of those really heavily flocked trees or a fake one. Now that I am the grownup :hysteria: RIIIIGGHHHHTTT!!!! I have a few different ones. Some fake green ones and a couple of white ones that I put purple lights and bulbs on one year and one year I put pink lights and bulbs and decorations, my homage to Breast Cancer research, the Pink tree!

My parents always got a beautiful Noble Pine, the perfect tree for a Christmas tree and we all decorated with those old 1940's and 1950's ornaments. My ma still has all those. There was one that we always saved for my dad to put on every year. It was his favorite and he got to hang it.

I will try to find one of the funniest looking little girls in the world dressed up in a nurse's outfit, missing two front teeth in front of the Christmas tree :D: You can only guess who it is...I will look today for it and have to scan it. It is from like 1962 or so...Ha ha ha!

I always wanted to be a nurse when I grew up and I am sorta, just that it is for animals. That is what Vet Techs are, Animal nurses... My mom was an LVN for years in the newborn nursery at Concord Community Hospital in Concord, Calif, now it is called Mt. Diablo Medical Center. Disneymom, are you a registered Nurse?
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Big Wallaby wrote:Still an Oregonian. I'll always like a real Douglas Fir in the house. Of course, I don't think I'll be seeing that any time soon.

Oh, and if you do happen to use a real tree, don't do like one hotel where I worked. Water the damn thing.

We buy our Douglas fir every year at WalMart. I tried a Noble fir a couple times, and even a Scotch pine, but nothing smells better than a Doug fir to remind me of home and Christmas.

DisneyMom wrote:My Grandparents had an Aluminum Tree....and the rotating lighted color disc that went under it to change it to different colors.....It looked cool with their Aqua-Green Vinyl Couch. :p:

My parents did that we I was in High school, we thought we were COOL, cause not many people would actually BUY something that expensive for decorations!

I love real trees. My grandmother always has a real tree that we pick shortly after Thanksgiving and cut down ourselves closer to Christmas.

Whazzup wrote:We buy our Douglas fir every year at WalMart. I tried a Noble fir a couple times, and even a Scotch pine, but nothing smells better than a Doug fir to remind me of home and Christmas.

If you like real trees there's a nice tree farm north of Milton where we've gotten my grandmother's tree since I was little.

I am allergic to the real things. Plus I would probably wind up with a brown tree by Xmas since I have a habit of forgetting to water plants. :D:

I hunted down a silver tree a few years back, as chronicled in this blog entry:

http://celebrationfl.blogspot.com/2004_ ... chive.html

It was a major draw in my house when it was on the Celebration Holiday Home Tour a few yers later. f you scroll down in the pics. on the link below you'll see our aluminum tree, but you can't really make out thre multiple color wheels:

http://www.celebrationinfo.com/tour.htm

vixen101485 wrote:I am allergic to the real things. Plus I would probably wind up with a brown tree by Xmas since I have a habit of forgetting to water plants. :D:

A number of years ago, we replaced the carpet in the living room, and DW decided she did not want a tree getting sap, etc. on the carpet. It was right after christmas, so we went to "Sears" and got one on sale for about $100.00. The thing looked real, and we have been using it for about 8 years, and it still looks great. Now I understand that thy have ones out that fold up like an umbrella, and have built in led lighting. Hmmmmmmm.

My parents always got a beautiful Noble Pine, the perfect tree for a Christmas tree and we all decorated with those old 1940's and 1950's ornaments. My ma still has all those. There was one that we always saved for my dad to put on every year. It was his favorite and he got to hang it.

I will try to find one of the funniest looking little girls in the world dressed up in a nurse's outfit, missing two front teeth in front of the Christmas tree :D: You can only guess who it is...I will look today for it and have to scan it. It is from like 1962 or so...Ha ha ha!

I always wanted to be a nurse when I grew up and I am sorta, just that it is for animals. That is what Vet Techs are, Animal nurses... My mom was an LVN for years in the newborn nursery at Concord Community Hospital in Concord, Calif, now it is called Mt. Diablo Medical Center. Disneymom, are you a registered Nurse?
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Yes, an RN now for 20 years, before that I was an LVN and Nursing Assistant, so I don't really differentiate between any of them, after all, I can juggle bedpans with the best of them. I have real admiration for pediatric nurses and those who work with the critters, both require nerves of steel! I see kids now that I am in Urgent Care, but it kills me to have to stick them.
My love of Disney stuff does come in handy, tho, I can usually talk to them about something THEY like and it is often a good distraction.
Looking forward to that picture Susi!