Sparklelu
Brilliant_Rock
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So looking at the pretty trees in the show me your tree thread, I got to thinking. what do those of you who do a different color or themed tree each year do with the old stuff? And why do you change each year? My DD SIL just posted her tree on FB and commented that she was doing purple and teal this year so she gave all her silver and black to her sister.
We have collected many ornaments over the 35 Christmases we have been together, and they all go on the tree each year. We have ornaments that we collected/they chose for the kids. When they moved out I tried to give them, but they wanted their own decorations so they go on too. Funny though oldest DS wants us to wait till he comes down from NYC to hang "his" ornaments.
So we put the same ones on each year, each one has its own story and I love that. Even though we use the same ornaments the tree looks different each year.
We do have 2 other tress. one that is garnet and gold ( mostly ) go FSU!!! and one that is mostly Disney ( really mostly Mickey and Minnie), and we add to those too.
So question is why do you do it, switch colors or themes... and more importantly what do you do with all the beautiful stuff you are not using....
Our trees are not up yet as DH is painting the house, so i am living vicariously through you all!!!
We have collected many ornaments over the 35 Christmases we have been together, and they all go on the tree each year. We have ornaments that we collected/they chose for the kids. When they moved out I tried to give them, but they wanted their own decorations so they go on too. Funny though oldest DS wants us to wait till he comes down from NYC to hang "his" ornaments.
So we put the same ones on each year, each one has its own story and I love that. Even though we use the same ornaments the tree looks different each year.
We do have 2 other tress. one that is garnet and gold ( mostly ) go FSU!!! and one that is mostly Disney ( really mostly Mickey and Minnie), and we add to those too.
So question is why do you do it, switch colors or themes... and more importantly what do you do with all the beautiful stuff you are not using....
Our trees are not up yet as DH is painting the house, so i am living vicariously through you all!!!