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  • LysesKids
    Daycare.com Member
    • May 2014
    • 2836

    #16
    Originally posted by Josiegirl
    I wish I had a fake one. I used to love the idea of cutting one down and doing the whole family thing. but since that's a thing of the past now and cut trees here are about $40, I'd love a fake one now. My dds told me if I got a fake tree, they wouldn't come home. I'm sure they were joking. I think.
    I'm allergic to live Christmas trees

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    • AmyKidsCo
      Daycare.com Member
      • Mar 2013
      • 3786

      #17
      I have a 3 ft fake one I put in the playroom and let the children decorate/undecorate as much as they want.

      We go to the the tree farm to cut down a real tree for the living room (gated off from the child care area). I LOVE the smell of a freshly cut evergreen!

      This year we've got two 3 month old kittens who will definitely climb the tree. It'll be interesting...

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      • DaveA
        Daycare.com Member and Bladesmith
        • Jul 2014
        • 4245

        #18
        DW is allergic to a real tree, so we have a 7ft fake one. She bought it a couple years ago on after Christmas clearance and it's held up really well.

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        • Josiegirl
          Daycare.com Member
          • Jun 2013
          • 10834

          #19
          Originally posted by midaycare
          You can get cut trees for $40? Wow! Ours cost about $125. We bought a nice fake one for $400, and figured it wouldn't take too long to recoup the costs.
          Oh my! If I had to pay that much, I'd definitely go artificial. I expect the forty bucks to increase each year. One of my dcfs gave me a $100 gift card to Lowes when their dd started preschool, I was going to save it for next spring planting season. But just maybe I'll check that place out for a tree. Spring is too far away to even think about. Haha 4 yo dcg asked me yesterday if spring was almost here. Got a ways to go honey, a ways to go.

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          • Baby Beluga
            Daycare.com Member
            • Aug 2014
            • 3891

            #20
            Originally posted by midaycare
            You can get cut trees for $40? Wow! Ours cost about $125. We bought a nice fake one for $400, and figured it wouldn't take too long to recoup the costs.
            Ours also are about $120 and go up from there. The local high school was selling fresh cut trees and they started at $100 for a 4 foot and went up to $320 for an 11 foot.

            We have an artificial one. Purchased it for $100 from Walmart 3 years ago. It was prelit but this year half of the lights went out. So I just strung additional lights myself. No biggie.

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            • safechner
              Daycare.com Member
              • Jan 2010
              • 753

              #21
              I just bought 6' pre lights Christmas tree (fake) for $20 (it was on sale) yesterday and it looks great. It is for plant ledge on the top of my house (12' ceiling tall). I also bought 9' Christmas tree (fake) with no lights for $150 (it was on sale, regular price was $300) last night. It looks great! My husband and I decided to put lights on our own because we prefer to have led lights to save our electric bill.

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              • renodeb
                Daycare.com Member
                • Jan 2011
                • 837

                #22
                My hubby works at Home Depot so we buy our tree from there. Usually a 6 foot one. We put it up in our Den (away from the daycare).
                Deb

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                • Blackcat31
                  • Oct 2010
                  • 36124

                  #23
                  Originally posted by AmyKidsCo
                  This year we've got two 3 month old kittens who will definitely climb the tree. It'll be interesting...
                  Kitties always make Christmas fun! ::
                  Mine love wrapping paper and bows.

                  By Christmas morning most the bows and ribbons are missing from the presents and a good portion of them are ripped open giving clues to what's inside and the tree is ornament free from half way down....

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                  • Febby
                    Daycare.com Member
                    • Jun 2014
                    • 478

                    #24
                    Originally posted by Blackcat31
                    Kitties always make Christmas fun! ::
                    Mine love wrapping paper and bows.

                    By Christmas morning most the bows and ribbons are missing from the presents and a good portion of them are ripped open giving clues to what's inside and the tree is ornament free from half way down....
                    Mine are the same. i usually keep the presents put up until Christmas Eve or Christmas morning for the sake of getting some pretty pictures of presents under the tree. I have a new kitten this year, too, so I'm sure the ornaments will disappear pretty quickly.

                    I'm looking at new tree this year. I'd love to have a real one, but I don't know that it would be worth it for the cost. We have a prelit that my parents gave me that they acquired when they bought a house and the previous owners left it. It's about as dead as a fake tree can be.

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                    • Meeko
                      Advanced Daycare.com Member
                      • Mar 2011
                      • 4351

                      #25
                      Did ours this weekend. It's a cheap one from walmart about 6 years ago. Fleshed out with lots of garland, ribbon and ornaments, it works for me. The daycare kids are great about not touching it.
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                      • jenboo
                        Daycare.com Member
                        • Aug 2013
                        • 3180

                        #26
                        We drove out to the forest this weekend and cut one down. This was our first time and we didn't go to the best area but we found a cute one. It's smooshed against a wall in our living room with a gate around it.
                        Oh and the permit to cut it is only $10.
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                        Last edited by Michael; 12-07-2017, 08:45 PM.

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                        • happymom
                          Daycare.com Member
                          • May 2015
                          • 1809

                          #27
                          Originally posted by Controlled Chaos
                          I LOVE real trees, but we just can't afford the $75-$150 price tag every year. Mow we have a nice fake one that is 7 feet tall and pre lit. We got it for $60ish 3 years ago. I do wish we didn't have to gate it off.
                          We go cut one for $10, just buy a permit from the ranger station

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                          • Mike
                            starting daycare someday
                            • Jan 2014
                            • 2507

                            #28
                            I prefer real pine trees, with the cones. I like sitting and listening to them crackling.
                            Children are little angels, even when they are little devils.
                            They are also our future.

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