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Christmas Tree Time · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American mamas. Dear mama's, when
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  Speaker 1: is the appropriate time to put up your Christmas tree
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  Speaker 1: this year?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's ask our American mamas, Alma.
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  Speaker 1: And joining us now our American mama is Terry Needeville
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  Speaker 1: and Kimberly Burlison. Okay, Wendy this last week said came
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  Speaker 1: to me and said we need to talk. We need
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  Speaker 1: to have a very serious discussion. And now, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean Wendy and I don't really like we never fight,
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  Speaker 1: never argue, it's not you know, it just doesn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, okay, what did I do? And she said,
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  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving comes on the twenty eighth this year. It's very
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  Speaker 1: very late. If we wait until after Thanksgiving to put
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  Speaker 1: up the Christmas tree.
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  Speaker 2: It won't even be up.
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  Speaker 1: So we negotiated and we are going to put the
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  Speaker 1: christ tree up before Thanksgiving this year.
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  Speaker 3: Are you the stickler about that or something?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Heck yeah? One one holiday at a time?
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  Speaker 3: Got it?
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  Speaker 2: One holiday at a time?
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  Speaker 3: Oh Can'tberly, how did you feel about that?
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  Speaker 2: First of all?
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, my uncle's very different. He has
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  Speaker 1: a Christmas tree room. It's his library. He has a
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  Speaker 1: Christmas tree that has been up for more than twenty years.
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  Speaker 4: Still are you? Yes, I love you, I loved him
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  Speaker 4: ye into it. I feel like, first of all, you
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  Speaker 4: do what you want to do. You do you if
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  Speaker 4: you want a Christmas tree all year round, you keep
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  Speaker 4: that tree up here roun I personally, November one is
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  Speaker 4: when my trees go up.
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  Speaker 2: November one, November.
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  Speaker 4: One, okay, and they come down December twenty fifth, twenty fifth.
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  Speaker 2: You take him down, Christmas Eve down.
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  Speaker 4: I'm done once Christmas morning, you know that's Christmas Day's
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  Speaker 4: kind of a downer to me?
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  Speaker 2: What because yeah, because you've got churs to do it
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  Speaker 2: in the afternoon, wait till Boxing Day.
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  Speaker 4: It's like the build up is it's so fun, Christmas
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  Speaker 4: even so wonderful, and then Christmas Day morning is wonderful.
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  Speaker 4: And then after that it's like I'm ready for spring
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  Speaker 4: and summer and I just start taking things down. I
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  Speaker 4: take them down. But I'm in full Christmas mode. I
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  Speaker 4: am so happy. I am so like, can't wait to
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  Speaker 4: do all of the things. I'm ready to decorate and
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  Speaker 4: ready to help. That's my job on the side as
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  Speaker 4: I decorate for people. I am so happy right now.
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  Speaker 4: I can't wait.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. So here's the difference, though, Kimberly, you're a decorator.
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  Speaker 3: You're a professional decorator. You know how to decorate and
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  Speaker 3: how to take down and how to get your house
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  Speaker 3: back in order in that one day to set up.
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  Speaker 3: In the one day to take down, it takes me
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  Speaker 3: two weeks to get Chris first of all, to box
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  Speaker 3: everything to get it out of the way in order
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  Speaker 3: to make room for my Christmas stuff. It takes me
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  Speaker 3: about two weeks. Unless she comes, we can get it
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  Speaker 3: done in a couple of days, and then afterwards talking
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  Speaker 3: about waiting for spring and summer. That's about the time
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  Speaker 3: that it finally gets back to where I like it.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm like, I want to look like now. I
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  Speaker 3: used to go all out when my kids were going
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  Speaker 3: up in the house. Now they're all out. I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: I'll do the minimal. Now I've got a grand baby. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm like, i gotta do something for pictures.
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  Speaker 4: Well, to me, it's all about the kids. You got
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  Speaker 4: to go all out because the kids.
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  Speaker 3: You would you go all out because your kids have
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  Speaker 3: been grown and glunte whatever.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway, So this is this is like taking it on
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  Speaker 4: a little political. So I post a video of my
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  Speaker 4: Christmas tree up because it's already up, because already up November. First.
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  Speaker 4: You would not believe that. I love my liberal friends.
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  Speaker 4: We don't talk politics, but I love them. But almost
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  Speaker 4: every one of them messaged me to say I would
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  Speaker 4: never do that. I would never. I can't imagine having
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  Speaker 4: Thanksgiving with a Christmas tree up. It's after, it's after Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, what, Why do liberal people feel it's important
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  Speaker 4: to always share when they have a different opinion or
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  Speaker 4: they feel you're doing something wrong.
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  Speaker 2: You know what? Be unreal?
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  Speaker 1: Wendy has a phrase for that too, and this I
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  Speaker 1: don't remember where this came from. This is back early
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  Speaker 1: in our marriage. But she turned to me one day
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  Speaker 1: went don't yuck my Oh.
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  Speaker 4: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, I love that too. I was like, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: you're right.
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  Speaker 3: Don't yuck my yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think she was eating tuna fish and
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  Speaker 1: I don't like tuna fish, but I like peanut butter.
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  Speaker 1: She does like peanut butter. She's like, so you eat
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  Speaker 1: your peanut butter. I'm not gonna yuck your young, but
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  Speaker 1: don't yuck my yum over tuna fish. She says, it all,
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  Speaker 1: but that's kind of what they're doing. They're yuck, and
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  Speaker 1: you're young, they.
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  Speaker 4: Are Would you ever, never, never, if somebody put up
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  Speaker 4: their Halloween in August, would you say I could never
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  Speaker 4: put Halloween up in August.
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  Speaker 2: I'd have to.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's kind of like from me years ago. I
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  Speaker 3: used to write. You know, I love writing. Sure, so
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  Speaker 3: I used to write. And I would tell stories on Facebook.
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  Speaker 3: This is really before Instagram too. Just tell stories and
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  Speaker 3: sometimes we're worthy, some are worthy. Something long.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And I would.
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  Speaker 3: Have friends that would say I would I have to
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  Speaker 3: skim your stuff, or I your your stuff is just
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  Speaker 3: too long? Your stuff is or they'll say it on there,
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  Speaker 3: this is too long. This is such a great story,
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  Speaker 3: but it's too long.
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  Speaker 2: You got a short T L D N R.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I said, I would say to them, you've
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  Speaker 3: got a thumb. Keep scrolling exactly. You don't have to.
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  Speaker 3: There's no reason to tell somebody like, just don't read.
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  Speaker 3: My neighbor, don't care.
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  Speaker 4: My neighbor said to me about Terry's post. She's like,
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  Speaker 4: I just have to hide your sister stuff because she
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  Speaker 4: an I raged, and I said it, just keep scrolling.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to read what she.
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  Speaker 3: Puts out there, and you know, and honestly, and I
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  Speaker 3: really haven't written a lot, but I used to write
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  Speaker 3: a lot when the kids are in school. And it's true,
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  Speaker 3: it's like it would just make people mad if they're
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  Speaker 3: just angry people.
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  Speaker 1: So it's okay to put your tree up whenever you
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  Speaker 1: want to put your right.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody, do you keep scrolling if you don't want to
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  Speaker 3: read too long, or if you don't like someone's pictures,
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  Speaker 3: just don't like it, just keep going. It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 3: I hurt their feelings.
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  Speaker 1: Don't yuck, they're yum. Yes, if you like Desker American
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