"Bruce" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 00:05:27 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
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>>"Bruce" > wrote in message
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>>> On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 23:28:14 -0700, "Cheri" >
>>> wrote:
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>>>>"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
>>>>news
>>>>>
>>>>> "Cheri" > wrote in message
>>>>> news
>>>>>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>>>>>> news
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've got a 22 ft. vaulted ceiling in the living room. Guess where
>>>>>>> all
>>>>>>> the cool air goes? Right up and onto the electric bill. Thank
>>>>>>> goodness
>>>>>>> there's good insulation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jill
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would only enjoy ceilings that high at Christmas, I've always
>>>>>> wanted
>>>>>> one of those huge trees inside.
>>>>>
>>>>> Those are nice to look at but I wouldn't want one. I liked Christmas
>>>>> trees
>>>>> as a child. Now, not so much. I would just as soon do without them.
>>>>> One
>>>>> person here wants the tree up but nobody wants to decorate it and
>>>>> worse
>>>>> still, nobody wants to take it down. I would be fine with a little
>>>>> predecorated something or other that I can put in a plastic bag and
>>>>> take
>>>>> out the next year.
>>>>
>>>>I hope I never get old enough to feel that way.
>>>
>>> I haven't had a Christmas tree since I moved out of my parents house.
>>
>>I had a small white flocked one that I decorated in pastel colors and
>>flowers. Didn't take long to do. When that became decrepit, I had a little
>>wall tree. I think I might still have that somewhere. I could actually
>>leave
>>that decorated. I just sealed it tightly in a bag. Got to where we had no
>>place to put a tree much less store one. I did get a real tree once and
>>regretted it. Husband did not like it and was constantly complaining about
>>it being a fire hazard and the needles that it dropped. That was for
>>Angela's first Christmas. I don't know why I bothered. She doesn't
>>remember
>>it.
>
> I remember something about sustainable Christmas trees. You dig it out
> of the garden and put it back again after Christmas. Did that ever
> take root?
We haven't had that here but you can buy a live tree and replant it. Not
sure how well that worked though because winter isn't ideal for tree
planting.