Luxist Giveaway: Green Valley Christmas Trees Noble Fir

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Nov 22nd 2010 at 10:01AM

We can't get enough of the big holiday giveaways. Today we are giving away a Green Valley Christmas Tree. You buy gifts online, why not the tree? GreenValleyChristmasTrees.com enables holiday shoppers to purchase their live Christmas trees quickly, easily and from the comfort of their home or office online. It can be a big timesaver. Imagine-- no traffic, no long lines, no heavy lifting and no scratches on the car. The tree arrives via FedEx, packed in a moisture-resistant carton. The trees are chosen for their perfect shape and have no bald spots. They are harvested the same day that they ship for maximum freshness (as opposed to lot trees which could have been cut weeks ago). Choose from Noble Firs, Fraser Firs and White Pines. Trees start at $89.99 and real Christmas wreaths start at $34.99 so you can decorate your whole house with just a few quick steps.

We are giving away one 6.5-7' Layered Noble Fir (retail value $154.99) to one lucky reader who enters in the comments below.

GreenValleyChristmasTrees.com is also offering a special discount for Luxist readers-- 10% off sitewide. The code is LUXIST and it expires at 11:59pm PT 12/1/10

* To enter, leave a confirmed comment below sharing your favorite holiday memory.
* The comment must be left and confirmed before November 29, 2010 at 5:00PM Eastern Time.
* You may only enter once.
* One winner will be selected in a random drawing.
* One winner will receive the Green Valley Christmas Tree, 6.5-7' Layered Noble Fir with a retail value of $154.99.
* Open to legal residents of the continental United States (no Alaska or Hawaii) and the District of Columbia.

See complete giveaway rules here.

This contest is now closed. Thank you for your participation.

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Reader Comments (Page 5 of 33)

baxlash04 Nov 23rd 2010 7:36AM

When I was young we never celebrated x-mass due to religious views, so i never have any good memories of early x-mass.

caitlin_melody Nov 23rd 2010 8:01AM

MY favorite Christmas memory was waking up to find the Cabbage Patch Kid (and Cabbage Patch Pony ~ which I named Star) that I had been dreaming of! I am the oldest of 8 children so actually getting what we wanted for Christmas was rare.

PLEASE help us have a beautiful tree this year!!! My 4 kids would be VERY happy!

If I win I will tweet you the pictures :)

Good luck to all!!!

Happy Holidays :)

littlewing Nov 23rd 2010 7:36AM

Christmas season 1983 I was pregnant with my son who was due the next month in January, I also had a beautiful little girl who was 14 months old at the time. Though my husband and I both worked, financial times were tight for us. My birthday is on December 22 so Christmas and the reason for the season has always been dear to me. We didn't have money to spare for a tree that year so I tried not to show my dissapointment. My husband knew how I felt, so he and his good friend told me they were "going off for a while". A few hours later they came back with this scrawney little Charlie Brown looking twig of a tree. It seems they had gone to the woods an hour from where we lived and cut down this little tree and brought it to me to brighten my Christmas. I took that little tree and carefully placed a few ornaments and some tinsel on it and put a star on the top. It became the most beautiful, meaningful Christmas tree we ever had as a family. My children's father is now terminally ill with cancer may not make it until Christmas. After reading the article, this memory came flooding back to me and I wanted to share it with you all. It was truly one of the best memories of Christmas I can remember. God bless us all!

Barb Nov 23rd 2010 7:39AM

I would love the smell of a fresh pine tree!

ME Nov 23rd 2010 7:37AM

I think what I remember the most is all the smells of the holidays; cookies, bread, roast and potatoes. The cool air and anticipation of snow! and the sounds of Football on TV, Christmas music playing in the kitchen.

ummpiras Nov 23rd 2010 7:41AM

every christmas is memory with family

Violet Jan 5th 2011 12:54PM

I have many favorite memories of Christmas as a child. We were very poor growing up in the 60's. Seven kids, one parent working, one managing the family and very few presents under the tree but we made our own fun making up games with what we had. The anticipation of Christmas coming was almost to much to handle because we knew that this was the only time we would have ribbon candy, a bowl of mixed nuts with the special nutcracker. We would sit in front of the black & white TV, crack nuts & watch Rudolph. Back then if you missed Rudolph, you didn't see it again for another year! And of course there was pumpkin pie, that was a treat.

Today I have 2 teenage children. My husband & I are blessed to have such loving, caring kids who reach out to others not just at Christmas, but all year round. This year will be our BEST Christmas. We wanted to show our kids that having "stuff" is not what life is all about. It's family, memories & giving to others is what life should be about. We all agreed that each one of us will have only $125 each to spend on the other 3. We will need to use our imagination & be creative.

So what I plan to do to make this Christmas the most special is to "surprise" them with totes of all their old toys from when they were little. I saved many of their favorite toys in put them away in the crawl space years ago. I can't wait to sit in front of the Green Valley Luxist Noble Fir, laugh & share memories of the Christmases gone by remembering when "Santa" brought them these toys. Merry Christmas to everyone!!

Mary Nov 23rd 2010 7:40AM

My dad passed away last year and we always had a real Christmas tree, because he loved the smell of them. So it would be great to have one this year too.

Melissa Nov 23rd 2010 7:43AM

My favorite christmas memory was last Christmas Eve when my boyfriend at the time proposed to me. It was very special, I had no clue. We had just returned home from eating dinner at his parent's house and he kept hinting around that he wanted each of us to open one gift from under the tree. I'm not big on spoiling the suprises and opening one on Christmas Eve, but I played along anyway. As I was searching for a small gift to open something caught my eye on the tree, he had tied my engagement ring to a small piece of string and hung it on the tree. I immeadiately noticed it and was dumbfounded, next thing I knew he was on one knee proposing to me. We both cried and of course I said, "YES!" We've been married a little over a year now; got married on September 12, 2009 and it's been wonderful. Everytime I see a christmas tree now, it brings the memory of that special moment to life for me.

Willow Pittman Nov 23rd 2010 7:44AM

As a kid I would spend most Christmas's at my mother's childhood home in Pennsylvania. All the children would play down in the stone-walled basement with the coal furnace, storage rooms and coal cellar the whole holiday while the grownups played cards and visited with each other upstairs. We prayed for snow. Few holiday memories have even come near to the reveries created by planning little "shows" for the people "above the stairs", singing carols and bossing our younger cousins around! I can still smell the mixture of coal dust and my grandma's shelves packed with tempting cookies, cakes and candies. (Oh, yes, we would get in big trouble there. Carefully, we pried the tops of the old tins open, took our booty and then tried to re-arrange the contents to look like the same amount of goodies were there. We were really good at it but occassionally would get caught when we got too greedy!)

AND there was the delight we had when you were chosen to be the child who had been good that day and got to turn on the red electric wreaths in each window as it got dark. Our family believes in lots of shiny and bright decorations for the season. After spending Christmas's in grandma's glorious "Bet Miller", flashy and trashy Christmas house, the season is not right without several tons of decorations each year. We still go to my mother's (she is 85) and spend a full day working on her Christmas "stuff". Lights are everywhere and every flat surface inside and out of the house is decorated with nativities, ceramic trees, plastic snowmen and little vingettes of Christmas scenes.

My younger years were spent being very poor and my grandparent's were well to do and their house seemed like heaven. My dad was a sailor and I have 5 brothers and sisters. For most of my childhood I lived in a four room house with about 800 or 900 square feet and 7 other people. The special and abundant foods, the extra attention, Father Christmas bringing the tree (German tradition) on Christmas Eve, overflowing presents and some freedom to play every day without work was truly glorious.This was what we believed the stuff the Sugar Plum Fairy brings to good girls and boys and nothing else ever compared to going to Grandma's house for Christmas.

All the children slept in the attic on cots. It was a spooky old place with tall rafters and piles of old furniture and riff-raff---the accumulation of the lifetimes of many generations passing in that old house. But, we loved huddling together for warmth and whispering into the night. As we were just under the roof,sleeping in the attic one Christmas Eve, and Santa's reindeer landed on just above us! Jingle bells and the tapping of each tiny hoof sent us running downstairs to the light and joyously we shouted, "Santa is here; he is on the roof!" We were terrified; we were estatic. It was wonderful. ( I was very deflated years later when it was confirmed my Uncle Bob had gotten a "snoot-ful" and climbed on the roof from a ladder to impress us with a visit from Saint Nick! It was worse than knowing there was no Easter Bunny or Tooth Fairy!)

These memories and so much more are my "prize possessions" as it is not the norm these days to pack so many people into an old four bedroom house for a week. My great grandparents lived there, my grandparents,and my great-uncle Frank too. Add 2 sisters,their husbands and large broods and you have one cram-jammed house. It was lovely; it was oh-so-christmassy, and I wouldn't trade those days for all the jewels in the Queen's crown. I don't believe I will ever see anything like those precious days again.

westerncanhelp Nov 23rd 2010 7:46AM

The year my great grandma made my doll a whole wardrobe and I got a matching dress. I sure do miss Christmas as a kid!!

MLB Nov 23rd 2010 7:45AM

Watching my nephew tear apart wrapping paper and presents at 9 months old - finally a child in the family!

wllsmichelle Nov 23rd 2010 7:14PM

My dogs love rustling through the gifts under the tree. They usually manage to find the ones meant for them and open them. It is so funny.

Ken B Nov 23rd 2010 7:45AM

My favorite Christmas memory was going to town with my parents and looking at all the Christmas decorations. We would drive through this one place where all the rich folks lived and look at all their fancy decorations. We would walk down main street and look at all the toys in the store windows and listen to the Christmas music playing.

Kathy Nov 23rd 2010 8:03AM

I just know my boys would love this tree, every christmas is great when you have your family and your health.

jomrty Nov 23rd 2010 7:57AM

For 30 years we had a really "live" tree, on the root ball, to celebrate Christmas. After the holidays, we planted it on the property. We are now surrounded by beautiful pines and each is a living memory of a past holiday season. If I win the drawing, let the tree live and grow.

Jamie Shahan Dec 4th 2010 5:46AM

My favorite Christmas present was last year when my brother walked through the door at our family's yearly Christmas eve dinner. He was returning from Iraq, and had been there for almost the past year. All 25 or so of us were watching a pre-recorded video from him on our laptop, when on the laptop he said to turn around and he was standing in the doorway. There was only one cousin who knew, so he could plan the whole and make sure everyone was situated properly. We're hoping for the same present this year.

Carl Nov 23rd 2010 7:56AM

I deployed to Iraq on December 23rd, 2005. After arriving incountry and being shown to our "quarters" I opened my bags and found a package I did not remember packing. It was a 4 inch tall christmas tree my wife had purchased from the 5 and dime. A bunch of us gathered around, took some pictures and made some tearful phone calls back to the states. I still have the tree, and everytime I see it, I think of all the men and women who are absent from their families every year and say a prayer for those who will never celebrate another Christmas.

cathy Nov 23rd 2010 7:56AM

oh boy the silver tree and the colored lighted spinning disk behind the tree oh so 1970s

rdnkwoman Nov 24th 2010 12:41AM

my favorite Christmas is of my kids, as young children, waking up to find that santa had left them their first bikes! i would love to win this beautiful tree!!! this will be my granddaughter's first Christmas she'll remember. she's almost 2 and this big tree would only add to her excitement!

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