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[quote=Anonymous]We don’t put up our tree until the second week of December at the earliest because we keep it up until epiphany. I know they’re all cut at the same time. If temperatures are cool enough and you have to buy right after Thanksgiving, keep it outside for a week or two. DH waters every night when he shuts the house down because he stays up late to watch TV. We are also careful about not leaving the lights on for hours and hours until the week of Christmas- we still use incandescent lights and they get warm enough to dry the tree. We close the heat vent closest to the tree, too. We also have contractor bags and towels under the tree stand that we cover with the tree skirt. You never know what might go wrong with water and a giant dead tree. In spite of all of this effort, some years we just get a dry tree and it drops piles of needles. This year has been great and we have a happy tree that isn’t dropping needles but also isn’t drinking much. [/quote]
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