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**Another Year, Another Layer**
**What Happened:** Every year, Lily hosted the big family Thanksgiving dinner. Each time, she tried to outdo her previous attempts at preparing the perfect feast. This year, she decided to make a turkey that would outshine all turkeys. She stuffed it with layers upon layers of seasonings, herbs, fruits, and, for good measure, three different types of cheese. On the day of the dinner, as the smell of the roasting turkey wafted through the house, everyone’s stomachs grumbled with anticipation. But when it came time to carve the turkey, it seemed the bird had a mind of its own. With each slice, another layer of stuffing puffed out, each more chaotic than the last. By the time she reached the center, Lily looked like she’d been in a stuffing explosion.
**Why It’s Funny:** Imagine waiting all day for the main attraction of your Thanksgiving dinner, only to be met with a turkey that seemed to have transformed into a multi-layered surprise box. Each layer revealed something more ridiculous than the last—a nutty almond layer, followed by a mysteriously mashed potato, then what looked like spaghetti, all spilling onto the table. The sheer absurdity of an overstuffed turkey turning into a culinary circus was enough to have the whole family, stuffed themselves from laughter, appreciating the true spirit of an unforgettable Thanksgiving. And Lily, with stuffing in her hair and a pie-eating grin, declared, “Next year, we’re just ordering pizza!”
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You can tell the age of trees by counting the rings (of tape).
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Eventually it transitions to being all tape.
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The Tree Box of Theseus
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Treeseus was right there!
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Isn’t that the sassy droid from Star Wars?
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Sometimes I *really* love reddit.
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Give ya tree fiddy for it!
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before that takes place you could always change up the method. ratchet strap works fine for me. i wrap it around the box 3-4 times and just ratchet it to a tight close
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Came here looking for some secret lifehack from a redditor. Turns out this is the great equalizer.
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my mother has a plastic Christmas tree that she got in Germany that she has used every year for over 40 years. Each year she says “I think we can get 1 more year out of this”. 🙂
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I have inherited my grandparents’ old mini tree that is most likely from the mid 1960s. still looks great, and it fits wonderfully in my apartment (sits on an end table so it doesn’t take up space).
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Same except it’s my great grandpa’s tree so it’s basically a bunch of metal and plastic branches stuck in a broom handle. It’s sorta becoming the tree-of-thesies though cause I’ve replaced the stand and I’m thinking about getting a new broom handle for the stump. At what point is it no longer the same tree? 🤔 Lol
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This may be what my grandkids inherit. It’s a branch right now, but I’ve already been taping bamboo skewers to it. I predict at least one branch being broken off by 2028 and maybe two metal hangers being attached to it, with a slight chance of paint somewhere
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Thank you. I’m a fucking idiot and was just looking at the tape like 🤷♂️ idk. Took your comment for me to realize it was a Christmas tree going back to storage.
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/r/buyitforlife and generations by the look of it. I wonder if the companies behind these Christmas trees are still in business considering they won’t have much repeat customers.
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This was the year our artificial tree began to resemble a tall green pipe cleaner. It was laid to rest in an empty dumpster behind Walmart, due to its passing after a courageous lengthy battle with alotreecia. In lieu of flowers, please plant a Christmas tree in Israel,…Texas.
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Man this was me for so long. Sold the tree in that box too.
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This might be the last year for this one. Nothing wrong with the tree or box, just don’t feel like lugging it in and out of storage the whole one time a year I have to do it.
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What would be your alternative? I’d not have a tree at all but my wife wouldn’t appreciate that.
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Easy, just get rid of the wife and now you don’t have to get xmas trees
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The savings don’t stop there!
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Saves on presents too!
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Next year I’m celebrating Festivus
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Let us now gather around the pole for the airing of grievances
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I have a festivus pole in a slightly less worn box I can sell you.
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A smaller tree
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WRONG. The *only* options are throwing away the wife or getting rid of the tree, and we will not be entertaining reasonable suggestions at this time. Thank you.
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Mines four foot high and has the lights integrated. The trick is elevating it on a chair or table, it doesn’t look as Charlie Brown that way. Breaks into two for storage. It’s easy enough to get in an attic but I usually just stick it in the corner of a closet.
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Damn, didn’t wives could do all that. Might have to get one now
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If you have the storage space, putting the fully decorated tree away without packing anything down.
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We kinda do but that means it just removes our ability to store other stuff there. Which I know is silly but I like to have spare space lol.
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This is what we’re doing this year. Gonna get a tree bag and just zip up the entire thing as is and put it already to go in storage. We have plenty of space. Will be nice not having to fluff it, decorate it. Put lights on it. Saves time, energy and wear and tear on the already cheap artificial tree they all are now.
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that’s what i do with my smaller tree. every so often when i go look at a giant house on zillow gone wild and folks are like what would i do with all that space i’m thinking of how i’d have my full size pre-decorated tree on wheels. i do have a spot in my office i could put it. would be a smidge awkward but … you may have inspired me.
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No tree? Is this the grinch’s Reddit handle
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My wife and I could never agree on how to do a tree so instead we each have our own and we do two (90% of years) there’s the odd year like this year when we only did mine and there’s the odd year like three or so years back when we only did hers. Hers is from 2020 the current one and mine is from 1977 my parents bought it the year they got married it is 7 years older than I am and for a brief period I owned two copies of that exact same tree having also inherited the one that was identical that my grandparents bought the year after my parents bought it. I gave away Grandma’s tree because it spent the time between 1978 and 2000 living in a house with two heavy smokers who smoked indoors so it smelled to High heavens and I didn’t need two of the same so I kept mine and got rid of the one that was from Grandma.
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Maybe convince her to let you do a wall tree of lights. Just tack Christmas lights to the wall in a Christmas tree 2D shape. Takes up zero room
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Oh that’s a fantastic idea. I doubt she’d go for it but outta the way and not imposing is definitely my kind of decor.
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https://keinachtsbaum.de/products/keinachtsbaum-max There is this German invention, der Keinachtsbaum, it is a wooden base and stem, every year you get fresh cut offs from pruning trees to build your own and no tree gets thrown out, there is no plastic waste, plus it is a fun activity with family and friends while baking cookies.
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Small Charlie brown xmas tree?
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What you do is don’t put it back in the box. Cover it with a plastic Christmas tree storage bag. Put it in a corner in the basement
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That’s what I do. That’s not any different lol.
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Putting it away in a box is definitely different. It takes WAY too long to “fluff”
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Oh my bad I *totally* misread your comment. Our tree has arms that fold in and when you take it out of the box you just put it the right side up and they fall back down. I have never taken more than 5 min to grab it from our crawlspace and pop it outta the box. I just don’t like decorating trees and all the mess/space consumption that comes with it.
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You could always do what my family did growing up lol. We couldn’t afford a tree so my mum staple gunned green garland to the wall in a tree shape and just covered it with a painting when it wasn’t Christmas.
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Mood
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Mine found its way to the curb. It’s 12 years old and it sheds worse than the dog, and the lower branch hinges are bent too badly to fix.
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Just leave it up. It can be your Easter tree, Halloween tree, Thanksgiving tree, everything tree
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I’ve tried a real tree and then put in a box for next year. It doesn’t work out as I would have hoped.
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That was my family too. My parents decided to buy a new one this year, and it came with what my mom calls “a body bag”. 😂
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The box deteriorated years ago. I’m using rope and zip ties now. Tree is from 1971-72. My dad bought because my mom was allergic to a real tree. I still have that tree and use it.
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