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What you can do w/Christmas tree

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diesel tiki posted on 12/29/2003

Can you carve it into a small tiki or tiki pole?

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RevBambooBen posted on 12/29/2003

Burn it!

Next weekend is the annual "Bamboo Ben Tree Burn." If any of you (besides the TC Ohana "Circle Club") want to join us, we'll be somewhere in H.B.. Just look for the biggest fire! Burn!!!!! Allready have 25 trees!

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tikifish posted on 12/29/2003

Our condo forbids real christmas trees... we were going to be rebels and get one anyway, then we realized it was almost christmas and we were about to go to Detroit for most of the holiday... I was torn between practicality (why get a tree when you'll hardly be around) and sentimentality... so I went down to the storage room and grabbed all my Xmas gear, and brought it up to the 29th floor...

we ended up wrapping our concrete load bearing pole in lights and ornaments, and chrsitened it the XUCD - The 'Extreme Urban Christmas Device.'

Pictures if requested...

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bamzeno posted on 12/29/2003

On 2003-12-28 22:42, tikifish wrote:
Pictures if requested...

OK, you peaked my interest...let's see 'em.

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tikifish posted on 12/29/2003

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Beholde the XUCD(tm) - THE EXTREME URBAN CHRISTMAS DEVICE!

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Feelin Zombified posted on 12/29/2003

Cool!
Reminds me of Festivus.

-Z

"A Festivus for the restofus"

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bamzeno posted on 12/30/2003

Ah yes...Festivus. The pole seems to gain a little girth each year.

That is the best XUCD I've ever seen tikifish!


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[ Edited by: bamzeno on 2003-12-29 22:13 ]

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sjarvis posted on 12/30/2003

Excellent! And looks very nice next to the tulip table and chairs!

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laney posted on 12/31/2003

On 2003-12-28 22:42, tikifish wrote:
Our condo forbids real christmas trees...

I'm shocked you, and many here don't have aluminum trees!
Here's my small 4' tree with most of my vintage and special glass ornaments. No glass tikis but lots of fish and if you look close at the bottom of the second pic you can see the mermaid riding a dolphin.

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I also have a 6' aluminum tree with red glass tips. That tree ususally has all my cheesy plastic ornaments on it. I only did the one tree this year. It'll be out next year though.

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Fonduie posted on 12/31/2003

Ahhh, the simple pleasures of an aluminum Christmas tree. I recently saw a vintage one that came with a color wheel that was meant to shine on it.

Your photo's are too cool guys. Thanks.

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tikifish posted on 12/31/2003

I'll probably pick up an aluminum one eventually - next year for sure!

Right now I just spent my fun money (60 bucks) on 2 more tulip chairs, thanks to the magic of 'Buy It Now' on Ebay!

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sjarvis posted on 12/31/2003

Aluminum Xmas trees are awesome. We stumbled across a really nice one complete with color wheel last year. It was our main Xmas tree this year, along with our vintage white vinyl tree, which is smaller (about 3.5 feet tall).

Here's a shot of the white tree last year with all vintage ornaments:

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This year we put all the vintage ornaments on the aluminum tree and put all blue and aqua repro ornaments on the white one. Both looked great, but I somehow failed to take pics of them this year!

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DawnTiki posted on 12/31/2003

Laney, is your tree in a spinning musical Christmas tree stand? I can't wait till I get an aluminum tree to use my musical rotating stand with, it's not the same when it is missing the tree :P Nice trees everyone!

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laney posted on 12/31/2003

On 2003-12-30 20:49, DawnTiki wrote:
Laney, is your tree in a spinning musical Christmas tree stand? I can't wait till I get an aluminum tree to use my musical rotating stand with, it's not the same when it is missing the tree :P Nice trees everyone!

[ Edited by: DawnTiki on 2003-12-30 20:58 ]

Yes it is! I love it because it sounds like an old music box. It turns and plays so it's easy to decorate. You'll also notice the color wheel behind santa. In one pic it is green and another it is red (hard to capture on camera) It is a vintage color wheel but I got a new color wheel from my Mom this year. I can't believe they still make them! They are pretty much the same but the new one is plastic and MUCH quieter than the old "wirrrr-ing" one!

When I tell people I have an aluminum tree they go "Huh?" so I tell them "You know the "bad" trees from Charlie Brown Christmas. Then they know. I think a lot of silver trees ended up in the trash after that.

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suzywong posted on 12/31/2003

I wondered if there would be a Christmas tree thread. I inherited my grandparents 4' Aluminum Christmas tree. I LOVE it. Last year I had a real flocked tree, but put the silver one up this year. I will try and get a picture up of it.

I have seen the 5-6' trees in mint condition go for 500-600.00 on eBay.

Cool pictures.

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suzywong posted on 12/31/2003

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My grandparents (now ours) tree.

We have five cats, and last year they all had their own branch they sat on. Living ornaments if you will. They stayed clear this year.

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Traitor Vic posted on 01/04/2004

We, as well, only have 4 feet of aluminum. Those 4 feet, though, actually belonged to my Grandmother so they're very cool in my mind. We used to spend a great deal on Trees and Stuff Like Trees. Still do, I guess, but we've cut back a bit. Nowadays more worried about "What Kinds of Glasses are We Buying Each Other?"

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