The list: You aren't doing bonsai unless you have:

[Shogun610]

109) Unless you’ve spent 10K on a tree , then you’re not doing Bonsai, just quit, if you’re not buying your way into bonsai even though you can’t style a tree for shit , you’re not doing bonsai.

 

[Deleted member 47471]

110) You’re not doing bonsai until you leave your conifers/evergreens outside for your very first winter (because you’re supposed to) until one day it turns 70 F and stays in the 60s in late January so you put your trees in an unheated garage with much less light and you’re not sure if they will survive, but in theory they should, so you just leave them in there, hoping they remain in dormancy and trust that semi-dry/mostly dry soil is okay to water again, cautiously… but it’s been 13 days! Why are you still wet and damp?

 

[JRidge]

111) you aren’t doing bonsai unless you have done something to a tree and then thought afterwards, wait, was it the right time of year?

 

[Vali]

What was it?

A mouse, I saw it running for it's life

 

[Nybonsai12]

112) You aren't doing bonsai unless you've looked at FB auctions tree and think "this tree is so nice it has to be imported illegally right?" and see another tree and think "i'm gonna puke this tree/price sucks so bad".