Our Old Christmas Tree!
By julito
@antonbunot (11091)
Calgary, Alberta
December 29, 2015 3:46pm CST
Our Christmas tree is 10 years old. My wife bought it when our oldest grandchild (a girl) was 4 years old. It is hard to believe it is still standing straight and appears not growing old. We used to replace its dead light bulbs; but last year my wife and I decided to give it a new set of lights.
We now have seven grandchildren. Soon the eight will be due on May next year. Our only daughter was laughing when I told her our family Christmas tree shall last for another 20 years!
Our Christmas tree’s lights are still on. It remains like it is till midnight of January 1st. That is not my idea but my wife’s belief. Good luck comes if we leave our Christmas tree lighted up till January 1st, that’s what she believes. We have been buying lotto tickets since 1992; but no good luck has ever enveloped her and me. One thing for sure I will be shaking my head when our electric bill comes mid-January!
I hope everyone has a very merry Christmas and wishing you all in advance a very prosperous New Year!
I hope everyone has a very merry Christmas and wishing you all in advance a very prosperous New Year!13 people like this
15 responses
@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
30 Dec 15
i'm thinking about our electric bill too!
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
31 Dec 15
@antonbunot i'm not, but i don't identify 100% with my parent's hometown, either. we don't have a tree, but we have that electric 'parol' with dancing lights out front. we only turn it on when it gets dark and turn it off before going to sleep. we take down the tree jan 6th, feast of 3 kings.
@antonbunot (11091)
• Calgary, Alberta
30 Dec 15
@hereandthere . . we are typical Filipinos . . I guess you are not an Ilocano like me. They say ilocanos are kuripot (cheap). I AM NOT!
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
29 Dec 15
It is lovely to have a tree for that long. I wonder if I will.
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
30 Dec 15
@antonbunot It is wonderful to do so and the dresses julito.
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@antonbunot (11091)
• Calgary, Alberta
30 Dec 15
@TiarasOceanView I told her to donate them - her old dresses - to the Salvation Army . . She said no!
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@antonbunot (11091)
• Calgary, Alberta
30 Dec 15
@TiarasOceanView . . . Well, you may not believe it . . but my wife is still keeping her favorite dresses she had more than 20 years ago. That explains the long life of our old Christmas tree!
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@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
30 Dec 15
Our Christmas tree is about five years old. It is getting a bad list. We will probably still use it for our Christmas tree is not that old and has maybe one more year . Happy new year.
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@antonbunot (11091)
• Calgary, Alberta
30 Dec 15
@Morleyhunt . . My wife is taking good care of our Christmas tree . . Christmas trees similar to ours cost $300 plus these days. . .
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@antonbunot (11091)
• Calgary, Alberta
30 Dec 15
@JudyEv . . O, yeah, that is good luck. But would it not be nice if I hit the lotto . . even just $50 million? Not much . . but for sure I would make lots of people happy!
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@antonbunot (11091)
• Calgary, Alberta
3 Jan 16
@JudyEv I di not win the 50-million-dollar lotto max here in Canada either! Better luck for both of us next time!
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@JudyEv (325348)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Jan 16
@antonbunot We had a ticket in New Year's lotto but we didn't win anything.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
30 Dec 15
our Christmas tree is older than yours, kabsat! But it is adorned with many decors, it still looks like it is new. Happy New Year to you!
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
31 Dec 15
@antonbunot true, but we are not kuripot; we only know where we should put our finances into, right? we are not even considered miser.
@antonbunot (11091)
• Calgary, Alberta
30 Dec 15
O, then you are missing what my wife calls - - the spirit of Christmas!
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@trivia79 (7828)
• El Segundo, California
30 Dec 15
@antonbunot Not really. Just seeing the streets I passed by upon walking decorations and beautiful dancing lights made me remind of that Christmas is really in the air. Plus, the singing of children to caroling songs added to the ambiance of the spirit of Christmas
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@antonbunot (11091)
• Calgary, Alberta
30 Dec 15
@trivia79 O, I miss caroling. Back in the Philippines my friends and I used to go caroling with the girls. While my friends and the girls were singing . . I was flirting with one of the girls. That is what I miss most!
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@celticeagle (158680)
• Boise, Idaho
29 Dec 15
My daughter bought a tree about four years ago. We used it up until this summer when we cleared the place out and got rid of everything.
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@antonbunot (11091)
• Calgary, Alberta
30 Dec 15
@celticeagle . . Why did you get rid of everything? I guess you get rid most of your stuff by doing a garage sale.
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@celticeagle (158680)
• Boise, Idaho
31 Dec 15
@antonbunot ...We had bed bugs. We gave everything to the Salvation Army.
@antonbunot (11091)
• Calgary, Alberta
30 Dec 15
@allisonwish . . How is Christmas in China, my friend? Do you celebrate Christmas, too?
@antonbunot (11091)
• Calgary, Alberta
30 Dec 15
@jaboUK so, Christmas is over in your home. In our home it is still Christmas till January 1st.
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@Traceyjayne (1763)
• United Kingdom
30 Dec 15
your tree is lovely and it sounds like you have a huge family to share it with.
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@antonbunot (11091)
• Calgary, Alberta
30 Dec 15
O, we got 4 children (3 boys and a girl), @Traceyjayne . . . All are married and they gave us 7 (the 8th is due this May) grandchildren.
@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
30 Dec 15
I don't think that the tree lights use very much electricity. I threw away our old tree but I was tempted to put new lights on it.
