#394 – Canned

At my house my favorite Christmas tree ornaments were the ones that we made. Paper, cardboard, glue, glitter, wire, beads and plaster made up most of them. I always insisted that the lights were set to be blinking but my dad preferred them to be steady. My favoright lights however were at my friend’s house across the street. They had a set of bubble lights on their tree. I liked going over there early on a Saturday so that I got to see the lights heat up from a few slow bubbles to a full raging boil.

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  1. Sleepingorange says:

    Heheh… Kringus has struck again!

  2. the Scarf says:

    We have several hand made ones, Many are from recent years, and all of those are very tasteful and rather cool, but there are glued monstrosities from kindergarten that my mom insists on putting up every year. I usually move it to the back of the tree…

  3. nikie says:

    my uncle made a pretty shivvy fairy thingy that we used to put on the top of our non-denominational winter holiday tree. it was pretty cool. the fairy was blue. i don’t know what happened to it, though… it may have evaporated.

  4. MaskedMan says:

    We used to be dragooned into making cranberry and popcorn garlands every year, when I was a kid. I hated it then, I’d hate it now. Biff’s approach, while unconventinal, solves the problem of making up those nasty things.

  5. Nick Steele says:

    I’ve been making CHRISTMAS decorations out of iron this year.

  6. Kreegoth says:

    lol @ Nick Steele. why iron? why not STEEL!? haha its early, and i thought i was clever. anyone else get it? iron > steel? > = To, not is greater than, just so we’re clear.

  7. Charlotte says:

    I once knitted a little snowman that was meant to be a Christmas tree decoration, but that’s about the only one I ever made, we do have a lovely clay Santa which my mother made from plaster and painted herself though, and it’s come out every year I remember.

  8. Mithras says:

    We always use turkey stuffing for garland at our house, it works way better than cranberry sauce. We tried it once though, and it does work a bit better than mashed potatoes which just slop all over the place, so maybe Biff is in his learning process. I’m sure he’ll make it to stuffing eventually!

  9. carrie says:

    I love bubble lights 🙂 …. But unfortuneatly we can’t find them anywhere this year to replace our broken ones 🙁 Christmas just won’t be the same this year…..

  10. Seraphine says:

    Bubble lights are everyone’s favorites.
    Cranberry garland is probably very
    popular with household pets, I’d guess.

  11. Gobbledegook says:

    I have absolutely no idea what a bubble light is… can someone please explain it to me?

  12. Jacob says:

    Gobbledegook, bubble lights are lights filled with a liquid that will start bubbling when they warm up.

  13. Marvaanagh says:

    My family has the Angel of Death tree topper, proudly made by my 18 year old sister out of black, red, and green construction paper.

  14. kryhavok says:

    Hehe we have very old lights that my grandma had when she came from Sweden. My dad had to change some of the wiring to make it work with our outlets but theyre pretty. We did things with garlands but our cats would mess with the stuff. They still mess with the tree, and one of ours still climbs it. That one that climbs was also playing with out lights. Trees and cats dont mix well xD

  15. Shiloh says:

    We made a lot of ornaments when I was a kid. We took pipe cleaners and then put these beads on them. We made wreaths and candy canes with those.

    Also we made these simple cross-stitch things that were trains and other things that I can’t remember. We did the popcorn strand one year, but we usually use garland. We have a different themed tree every year.

    And I so thought that it was blood on the tree until I read it. :

  16. Chivalrybean says:

    Cranberry Sauce is one of my most favorite foods ever!

    One time at a church potluck, I got my normal excessive amount of cranberry sauce. I took a big ol’ spoonful of the sweet tasty treat, and to my utter horror, found myself eating pickled beets. I don’t really know if I like pickled beets or not, but it sure is a surprise when you expected cranberry sauce.

    I still remember the time I kept going into the kitchen after one potluck and eating all the leftover cranberry sauce.

    Yum….

  17. Reynard says:

    kryhavok Says: Trees and cats dont mix well xD

    No kidding! One of my mom’s cats likes to eat the tinsel of of her tree, so every week during the Christmas season I find myself emptying glittery cat-poop out of her litterbox…

  18. Boo says:

    Whoa, I just had a masterful thought… Book of Biff… Page-a-day calendar… It’s already in single panel form… it would be -easy-.

  19. PsychoDuck says:

    “PsychoDuck Says:
    December 7th, 2007 at 5:23 am

    My favourite ornaments are insects.

    The Duck Has Spoken.”

    What? I didn’t write that…

    And when I first saw the comic, I thought the tree was bleeding XD

    The Duck Has Spoken.

  20. PsychoDuck says:

    There are many PsychoDucks… I’m the third one so far… Quack!

  21. colin says:

    One of those glass raindrop ones nearly took one of my eyes out once. Just f***kin exploded while i was hanging candy canes. lil’ scar on my nose now
    idea:
    biff discovers candy canes do not make a suitable substitute when you’re injured
    lol

  22. Adam says:

    but it does taste nice… a pine tinged sauce, and besides it works as an effective adhesive for decorations.

  23. Tyler says:

    Oh, I hear ya, Reynard. One year when I was little, I woke up to a huge CRASH! I went to see what had happened, and I found our Christmas tree toppled over, and one of our cats looking alive but floppy next to the tree. BOLT YOUR TREES DOWN.

  24. I got my book in the mail yesterday.

    Thanks for the book and the spiffy drawing! They look great!

  25. Chris says:

    @Thursday’s Child – Awesome, I had fun doing the sketches in the books. 🙂

  26. Trevor says:

    Ypu misspelled favorite!

  27. PsychoDuck says:

    No, favourite is the Canadian way of spelling it.

    I’m starting to think I did write that other post, but I was so damn tired that I forgot. Seriously, that post was too like me to be a fake…

    The Duck Has Spoken.

  28. Bart says:

    Just to nitpick a little:
    Favourite isn’t the Canadian way of spelling, it’s just the right way of spelling, the English way of spelling, as in, it’s an English word, from England. Favorite is the American way of spelling, wich is, of course, as we all know, always the wrong way :-p
    As a guy from Belgium where they speak Dutch, I just felt obliged to react. 🙂

  29. Garrett says:

    In the picture, I think the cranberry sauce looks pretty good on there.

  30. Psymon says:

    To the prescriptivists:
    “If you try to force words to retain silent letters which nobody cares about, you end up with French.”
    That applies to me, too.

  31. Shadow says:

    That has got to be one of the coolest Christmas trees I’ve every seen

  32. SurveySays says:

    when i saw the picture i thought something horrible happened to that tree. then i scrolled down…is it bad that i was slightly disapointed?

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