The whole point of artificial is to not have to buy every year. Why would you throw something away after a month of use?
lol, you may be surprised at some folks. like i said, i was more focused on the "tree" part than i was on the "artificial" and recycling every year.
Of course! She's well into six figures too so if she wants to spend $200 on a tree I'm not going to get pissy about it. Plus I get to have a passive/aggressive moment this way by going through the Charlie Brown routine every year. BONUS! However, even when we were more tight financially I never got into arguments over spending money. It just isn't worth it unless she's got a coke or gambling problem or something like that. My mantra when it was tight was always: MAKE MORE MONEY. If you are yourself or are with a spender that is the best way to take care of the problem (other than marrying rich ).
I know this is much deeper than a tree, but why not 1) get a real tree for $30, 2) buy $70 in ornaments and lights = $100 Then hit the after Christmas specials for that artifical tree which you can pick up for around $50. Throw in another $30 in discounted ornaments (now you are up to $180) - you've saved $20 - not to mention you have much nicer stuff than if you bought pre-Christmas. I picked up a $300 tree for $30 on 1 of those specials. I had people following me around the store but I wasn't going to give it up - a real nice tree we still use many years later. Next year you won't have to spend anything, but if she's a typical woman (no offense ladies), she'll want to pick up some more items. Just encourage her to wait until the day(s) after before buying the nice stuff. She's nesting...
I can't wait to pick out my Noble Fir this year. We always get a 7-8 ft for about $80.00 right after Thanksgiving. My parents never had a real tree, and if I have my way, my children will never have an artificial one. We already have our ornaments and lights so it's no big deal. Glad everything worked out Manny.
A lot of you guys jumped on swoly, I and understand that, but I have one thing to say. some of you guys get way to personal on here, and if you don't want someone being an ******* to your personal situation, don't put your personal info on here. you asked for advice, a person's opinion, swoly's opinion is that divorcing is quitting. deal with it and move on or don't put your personal business on here.
I think a lot of it is the way he's saying it. Calling people "feckers" and "quitters" and throwing every mad smiliey in the book out can rub people the wrong way.
I understand that. swoly does use the smiley indiscriminantly, and he could tone it down. as far as I'm concerned I used to think like swoly, and I'm catholic and I'm sure that background governed my though process. but then I got married. I used to think you should stay together for the kids, but the fact is that so many people get divorced these days, that I don't think it bothers kids as much. I think growing up more of my friends came from divorced homes than non divorced homes.
You are all hosers talking about Christmas. This holiday is way too exclusive. I prefer Festivus. A Festivus for the rest of us! Plus a festivus pole only costs $38. http://www.festivuspoles.com/pages/Festivuspoles.htm I will commence airing of grievences shortly.
It was still his opinion......he does use alot of those damn smileys though. M He's triligual. (Spanish, English,Smiley)
That's what I'm saying...why didn't anybody tell me this had morphed into a Christmas Tree thread? I got one of those really nice fake trees with the pre-strung lights at Home Depot a couple days after Christmas last year for $30, I think...
Manny, I don't want to unduly criticize you, but it seems you are being awfully passive-aggressive here. The juxtoposition of "controlling" your wife, even her spending, and your sudden happiness seems odd. It seems like you got married too soon and that you don't have much experience with relationships, in general. I don't want to pin everything on you, but you seem to have a lot of anger bottled up inside and it seems like you are on the verge of playing emotional blackmail ("I have a feeling that I might feel sometime in the future anger towards her and get unhappy again.") Maybe I am misreading this, but I think your approach might be causing a lot of the problems.
