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> On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 00:26:46 -0700, "Julie Bove"
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>>"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
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>>>>>>> "Cheri" > wrote in message
>>>>>>> news >>>>>>>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>>>>>>>>> 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.
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> Um, you buy the live tree well before winter.

Here they were sold at Christmas time. You put it in your house, pot and
all, then plant it outside after Christmas. I think the abundance of
apartments and new houses with no yards is partly to blame for the lack of
sales.