amonkie

So some of you have heard about my mom's fetish for christmas trees... and you cried disbelief. So to quelch that, I took it upon myself to gather concrete photographic evidence of this forest that lives in our house from Day after Halloween to the week before Valentines Day. Trees are numbered in order of appearance as you progress deeper and deeper into the forest

















There are quite a few smaller ones spread out around the house.. but these are the most noteworthy ones.

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Toaster126

Holy crap dude. Maybe you need to exorcise her holiday spirit.

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Sultana

I especially like the extension cord in the last one. :P

That's gotta be one pine-smelling house, alright!

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ShaniFaye

she's having her very own festival of trees

/looks like something I would do given the money and the space

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Charlatan

Has your mom ever sought help for this affliction?


That's a lot of trees... how do you know which one has your presents under it?

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amonkie

there "used" to be a Family tree - one that had all the ornaments we kids had made going through grade school - that was the tree we were allowed to help decorate, and presents went other there. The rest are Hands OFF. During the year, the trees get stored in the closet under the stairs and in the storage room that is technically my closet... but my closet gets kinda squished

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paddyjoe

you meant plastic-smelling, right.....




Hey monkie, what up with #13? Was it a bad tree this year, so no decorations?

amonkie

#13 is a tree my dad picked out and bought my mom ... all techy like:

The branches have fiber optic cables, and the base has an MP3 player. The optics are too fragile to hang ornaments or anything, but when you load music into the player, the lights change in time with the music. I could take another set of pictures at night with the main lights off and the christmas lights on, or of a specific tree if there is a request. However, at least you can now see there are a LOT of trees!!! Each one is decorated with a different theme.

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snowy

I definitely would like to see a photo of the fiber optic tree.

And man, I thought my boyfriend's mom was crazy about Christmas...

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Zephyr66

As a "colour impaired" person, I am personally offended that i can't make out any more than 1 or 2 of the numbers. Not to mention the fact that I didn't even see them my first glance through.

But anyway, I congradulate your mom on her tree issues.

alpha phi

Wow it's like living outside....
only nice and warm....
without the bugs, and critters

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Meditrina

that is alot of trees! and yet somehow it does not appear too cluttered.

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shesus

You weren't kidding monkie. Your mom is christmas tree crazy.
I was going to say "You must get a lot of presents with all those tree!" But I read your previous post, so I guess you don't. Bummer.

I'll just adopt tree #10 and not put one up this year.

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cellophanedeity

So many trees!

They look lovely though. Sort of like the tree area of shopping malls, except nicer!

mosha

whats the rationale behind all these trees?

Charlatan

I was thinking about your house after watching The Two Towers on TV last night... reminds me of the Hurons... "Don't stray from the path..."

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amonkie

Mosha ... women are never rational.. haven't you learned that by now??

Honestly, she is just really into Christmas - xmas music is on 24/7 after Thanksgiving, she does Open houses (like tonight ), bakes cookies, writes the annual christmas letter, etc. Plus I think there is also the factor of getting attention because of the trees - people talk about them all year long, and keep donating trees to "help the collection". I bet when I come home to visit after moving out my old room will have become the official Xmas tree storage room.

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Charlatan

Amonkie... I am sure you can count on losing your room the trees... I was just by my Mother-in-laws... I had forgotten her obsession with Santas and Nutcrackers... there are many of them cluttering the entrance to her house... being smaller, they don't take up as much space as the trees but they are still quite a presence... I will try to take pictures.

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Fly

you've got more trees in that house than i have outside my house........crazy

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maleficent

its no wonder i have no christmas spirit - your momma clearly has mine...

I'm somewhere between disturbed and amused by all those trees... and it's adorable that your dad feeds your mom's habit... though doesn't that makehim an enabler?

I'm more impressed actually that your house has storage for all those trees...

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onodrim

Wow, yeah, that's a lot of trees.

I hope you guys don't have any cats, cause my one and only tiny one manages to bring our tree down at least once every year.

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amonkie

Nope, no cats... but our two male dogs go nuts trying to figure out why these trees don't smell like other dogs... and if they aren't watched try to claim them for their own.

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nosuchuserexist

geebus crappity...that's a lot of freaking trees. Please tell me they're all artificial...otherwise that's a hell of a fire hazard.

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amonkie

Yup... all artifical. Don't have to worry about the fireplace being a fire hazard since the pollution here is so bad we're not allowed to have fires burning

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bobby

what a great fetish............I love it!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS !!! XOXOXOO

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feelgood

I wonder what happens when Santa comes down the chimmy

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ryfo

Hey, at least your mama is only crazy for a couple weeks a year.....nice obsession too if I may say so! Has she any trees of another colour, you know you can get white ones.....

amonkie

As requested, with the optics on and house lights off:

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