In thinking no-one else's husband is as big a berk as mine?

[FamilyStrifeIsHard2Bear]

We went to buy a tree today from a garden centre.
What does my dear (supposedly) intelligent husband do? Choose a tree, while I am away for 3 minutes looking for poinsettias, which looks so bare on the bottom half we might as well have bought one half the size.
I pointed it out at the time, and instead of admitting I was right, he says it will be fine and I should stop 'going on'.
When we got it back home he has as much as admitted I was right by cutting 12+ inches off the bottom, so we now have tiny tree and might as well have bought a small one to begin with.
We also have wood shavings from where he cut it and needles from branches taken off all over the living room carpet which he hasn't bothered to clean as they've appeared so are now being tracked all over the house.
What a great start to Christmas!

How would you know it's Christmas if you don't have the tree argument?

(The holiday equivalent is the packing row.)

Yes, he saved it! Now it can fulfil its Christmas destiny!

LTT

Divorce him

Exactly!

DH and I together 31 years. Literally one row a year.

Christmas Tree day😅

I draw the line at packing though, we each do our own!

🤣🤣🤣

LTB

Just find a stool or crate, shove a table cloth over it and plonk the tree on top - instantly taller!

Bloody berk

'My husband is a berk,
I'm going quite berserk,
There's needles in my feet,
My house was really neat,
I can't take anymore,
He can shove his bleeding saw!'
Thanks for a brilliant laugh!

😂😂 at least it’ll be one to remember!

Thank you @Beaucielblues I love the poem!! 🤣🤣

Ffs thats hilarious

Men seem to have a blind spot re xmas trees. Son in law bought this massive tree spent ages struggling to get it in the house depositing needles everywhere then found it was too tall for the room. Set to work with a saw and ended up with a table top tree!!

Can't afford a Christmas tree this year or an advent calendar or more than a few gifts.

This is very funny.

And the too tall tree.

Op, it is lovely and it would have been unwanted. like a pp, your DH is a hero for allowing the tree to fulfill its destiny.

Plus definitely the right time for a real tree.

Oh and you have made me feel festive. Thank you

Hell yes, I can't have heard that in 30 years, feel nostalgic and will join in the revival. It is so expressive

OP, tree will be fine.

Berk really does need a revival.

When my sister and I were at primary school, she won the draw to take the class Christmas tree home-it was 10 feet high, and Dad had to practically chop it in half to get it in the room!

Get a grip it’s only a tree 🤣
I’d be more annoyed that he didn’t cut it outside in the garden

Poor little tree! Hang one red bauble on it and drape the bottom in a blue blanket and tell everyone you decided on a Charlie Brown Tree this year.

DH once brought one home that had a large bare spot halfway up on one side. When I pointed it out he stood there looking at it rubbing his chin in a thoughtful manner. After a few minutes he said Ah-HA, I can fix it!! and went outside and cut a small branch off one of our pine trees. He drilled a hole in the bare spot, whittled the cut branch to a point and 'screwed' it into the hole then 'sealed' it with clear silicone. It actually worked! It wasn't the same type of pine tree but with a few baubles and some tinsel on it you really couldn't tell.

And that's how DH saved Christmas! (and his arse)

PS We're now retired, kids are grown, so we've gotten a pre-lit artificial tree. The DC and I fought getting one for years, but now I'd never go back to a 'real' tree.

Funny poem.
Sorry but that is a really shit tree. Don't you regret not saying anything at the time?

Any trap door fans about?

All I can here is BERK FEED MEE!!

I just love this thread for Berk - top marks

I NEED to know how much you paid for it OP?