WW get a live tree and put it in the corner. I just have to scoot the end table and sofa over a bit. I try for a tree that is full, but not wide.

Hopefully we will go the first weekend in Dec. I find that when we have waited, all the good trees are gone. My DH is fussy with his trees!

I have not had a tree up in some years. We always go to our youngest daughter's for Christmas with all the family. Since we had to sort of rearrange our living room for my husband, since his last stroke, there is not a lot of extra room. We have had to put recliners in there and a round oak dining room table.

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Not planning on a tree this year. I don't think anyone will be coming by and I am pretty happy just doing the mantle, dining table and front door. I will be at one daughter's for Christmas Eve and morning and the other daughter's for lunch/dinner on Christmas day.

NO tree to put up at all and no room I have had to do that for way too many years.

It usually goes in the front window. I am debating whether I am going to put up the 7' tree, or just a small fiber optic that was my mother's this year.

Fake one in the front window. It's falling apart a bit but it's still standing!

We bought a fake tree because I became sensitive to a real tree. We put it in the family room blocking the patio doors. Usually it is cool enough that we don't go out to the patio that week. However, to bring in firewood from the stack in the side yard, my son will often open the window closest to the family room fireplace and just stack it on the hearth. Our youngest son loves to have fires, even if it is too warm. I am always happy to take down the tree and put everything away because all the extra stuff starts to feel like clutter.

Ours goes in the front room window beneath the vaulted ceiling. It's an 8 foot tree. Generally I just have to move a small table out of the way.

This will be the first year we may not have a tree at all. Tomorrow the living room will be crammed with kitchen cabinets that will be delivered. I doubt we can be done by Xmas. I may set up my small tabletop tree somewhere else in the house just for me.

Sheilajoyce, you're the third person that I heard say this in the past week re: sensitive.

I have three...big one with all glass ornaments in the living room. Smaller one in the family room decorated in all white and blue. Small one in the lower level with all hunting and fishing ornaments. Back when I did day care, I had another one with all ornaments the daycare kids made throughout the month of December. Then they took them home to their parents for Christmas. It was the cutest one!

This will be the third Christmas with my great grandson, and I will have a tree for him. I use the traditional Tennessee tree, a cedar (Juniperus virginiana) that he will choose and I will cut from our place. It will go in front of one of two windows at the front of the house and can be seen from the road. I'll probably put it up a couple weeks before Christmas, and take it down New Years Day, a tradition in my family since I was a kid. If not for the boy, I'd not have a tree.

I have 2 trees. The one in the living room goes in the same corner every year, I only have to move a small armchair and a small accent table to fit it there.

The one in the den goes in a corner, it just fits in without having to move anything except the floor lamp.

We haven't put up a tree in years. In the past, it was because we always traveled out of town to visit both sets of parents and weren't home for Christmas. Now that they are all gone and we have retired, we travel to a warmer climate in December. At first I missed it, but now I'm used to it and glad I don't have to deal with taking a tree down when Christmas is over.

One tree will be put up on the screened porch and can be seen from inside the living room, dining room, and the street. It also faces the bedroom of the little girls who live next door who like having the twinkling lights just thirty or forty feet away.

We also put up a big tree outside in one of our front beds where it's located in front of our big window. Lots of lights and lots of shiny plastic ornaments make it so pretty day and night.

No trees inside.

We put a large traditional tree in our big LR window and a large outdoor tree near our front door. My favorite is the outdoor tree. We always had one when I was a child, with the large multicolored bulbs. We called it the tree that we gave to other people. I told my husband that story one year and he surprised me by putting up and decorating the outdoor tree for me. And now I have 2 nice stories to tell about that tree.

I just finished talking this over with DH after my earlier post. I told him I'd like to put the outdoor tree of lights up this year. It's one of those "trees" made up of a cone of Xmas lights. So we decide to focus on decorating the outside a bit more since we cannot do the inside. Maybe the windows also.

I can't wait for next Friday when I put my trees up. I've always used artificial trees, I wouldn't even know what to do with a real tree.

I have my wedding tree in the corner of my bedroom; I only have to move the standing mirror. I bought a new tree on clearance last year after Christmas as my old one was starting to fall apart.

The 7 foot family tree goes in the living room in the corner. It has all the handmade ornaments as well as other unbreakable ornaments on it.

I also bought a slim tree on clearance last year to set up in my dining room with all the brightly colored ornaments from my childhood.

Hubby already hung the outside lights last weekend before it got too cold so I can flip them on the day after Thanksgiving.

We don't disassemble until after New Years.

I am sooo STUCK trying to figure out how this will work this year. Truth is I have too much. Back in the day we had our tree in

the picture window in our living-room. But it took up so much room and the window is to the back of the house so who cares...then we got a new slimmer tree and put it behind the couch in the corner between the living/dining room in our open concept space. Now I have inherited a 50 piece nativity set complete with 5ft landscape board and I have to integrate it somewhere....I would love to chuck the entire tree but my "kids" all 20 somethings complained when I paired down the tree, so thinking I would have a revolt w/o one. They all come home for Christmas and would go into SHOCK if the house was not DRIPPING with Christmas.

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If I was going to have one....not putting one up this year....would put it in the sun porch, which is on the back of the house and off the kitchen and the center hall. It is the biggest room in the house...and used more like a den.

We just put out two lighted table-top trees that belonged to our mothers -- and a few other decorative pieces. We're off to Maui near the first of the year. Our DS and family have a tree, Christmas stockings, etc.

I usually put up 3. One in my living room in front of the front window, a small one in my bathroom and one in my back room. Infact I will put the one up in my living room this weekend. I always put it up the weekend after Thanksgiving. I love the lights... The first year we were married we bought a tree and had it probably 20 years. Then I bought a really big full one. Each branch had to be put in separately and I hated that. I gave it to a gal that went to school with our kids. She had built a new home and was thrilled to get it.. I now have a skinny one and it is easy to drag in and put up. I use a quilt that my MIL gave me as a tree skirt. Many of the ornaments I use I made over the years.. As my children married and had homes of their own I let them go thru and pick out ones they wanted.. It is so much fun to go to their homes and see them hanging on their tree. I used to do a lot of decorating at Christmas but have really cut back.

"No trees inside."

Rhizo, right there, makes it seem like a very odd tradition. LOL, I still like the look though. Reminds me of comedian Jim Gaffigan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJAxRVeKnTE

Sometimes I have two trees- one for home and one for the river house. It depends on whether DD2 and her family come home or go to river to celebrate with us. Two daughters live nearby and they come to my house on Christmas Eve and then we get together again at one of their homes on Christmas Day. When DD2 comes to the river house after Christmas, everyone ventures to the river house for another Christmas, hence another tree. At home, I will set up the tree in the living room. If the grandkids can't come over (they are getting older now and have activities and commitments) a week or so prior to Christmas to decorate the tree, have lunch, and make crafts, then my husband and I set up the tree and the kids put the finishing touches on Christmas Eve. I have a lots of ornaments and the grandkids enjoy selecting one or two (if they wanted more no problem) for themselves. If we go to the river, I decorate a tabletop artificial tree in the family room.

Cookie, no kids or grandkids and really don't want to rearrange my living room to accommodate a tree. Then there's that pesticide thing. Farm raised trees are a high pesticide use crop and I can't be stuck in my house with something like that.

Those who are "sensitive" may want to consider that the problem might be the insecticides, fungicides, miticides, and antitranspirants.

I do plenty of other decorating, though, and our outdoor trees really feel like they are part of the home. :-)

We haven't had a tree inside for several years. I do decorate the mantel with garland and lights but the bottle tree on the deck outside some floor to ceiling windows gets lights and ornaments. And with having a new puppy this year it's the best of both worlds.

Christmas tree goes in the living room away from the windows. I have a lot of stuff, but don't put it all out.

I remember someone somewhere saying they were looking for a thin tree. Big lots has a 7ft fully lit pencil tree with stand for $50 right now.

Trees are up and lights are on. I have to get another strand of multicolored lights for the dining room tree.

We will trim out and hang ornaments in the next day or two. I always enjoy having the trees up with just lights on.