It's 7.5 feet tall, with 400 lights that can be either white OR colored and has 1100 branch tips! It's also about 10 inches larger in diameter than my current tree so hopefully it will fit more ornaments next year.
I also bought two projector things (one projects snowflakes, the other just red and green lights), three sets of icicle lights, two light 'nets', and two inflatables. One of the inflatables is a mug with marshmallows floating in it and the other is a big gingerbread house and I know I paid too much for it ($50 at Walmart) but I LOVE gingerbread houses. I want to eventually figure out how to make our house look like a giant gingerbread house for Christmas.
And in non-Christmas deals, my MIL's clubhouse in her community is redecorating so they offered up all the furniture for sale to residents and resident's families. We had to bid on them, and on Monday we bid $35 each for two armchairs and $20 for one of the boardroom chairs. We won all three! The armchairs are kind of ugly (bright orange, which is Mr. Kris's favorite color but doesn't really go in the house) but they're in good shape, only about 10 years old or so, and slipcovers are pretty cheap on Amazon. We're going to put one armchair upstairs so I can sit next to the bay window and read, and the other is going in the family room for now. We may eventually get a love seat down there and bring the other armchair upstairs. The board room chair Mr. Kris is planning on bringing to work. And my SIL won the bid for one of the couches!
After we take down the Christmas tree we're going to rearrange the family room and put the tv on the other side of the room, I'm really looking forward to it.
