I hear ya.

no...i am not jewish...it's just that my parents think im too old for presents!!! (i'm 17 btw) :baby:

I usually get presents either way because it's my birthday :)

but I still do get Christmas presents even though I'm going to be 16 because I have a little sister (8)

Well, I hope for those who do not adhere to the Christian faith had a good Hannakah and Ramadan and have a good Kwanzaa.

we have 2 (artifical though) :( we tried a real one a couple years back, it was messy, we were cleaning up pine bristles til early march, .... *shrugs*

When did you take the tree to dump? Because if you wait 'til late March to take out the tree those pine bristles will be around until you move out of the house unless you have unually large doorways.

It's best to take them out right after New Year's and you shouldn't have too many problems.

I like real trees if you can't tell. :D Our family used to go way out in the middle of nowhere to a tree farm and cut one down ourselves, but then we realized we just got mad at each other too much in such a long ride there and back together.

So the past few years we just waited 'til like five days before Christmas and bought the best trees from a place in the city for really cheap, because they start going on extreme sales at that time.

db (devil's barge)

Really? Must've have been one huge tree because once we remove a Christmas tree from our house usually all that's required is one vacumm job over the spot where the tree was. Then, it's all back to normal and stuff. :)