We had a beautiful thick artificial Christmas tree for many many years that looked like it was real. Many of our friends couldn’t believe it was artificial.
Tomorrow I’ll take my hand saw and go for a walk behind my house to cut this years tree. I picked out a nice spruce earlier in the Fall. Luckily we’ve had a good snow melt in the last few days so I won’t have to shovel snow to get to the base.
Our Christmas tree grows in a pot in our sun room. It hardly ever sheds needles. The artificial tree we put in the yard makes a mess in the garage every year while I am decorating it.
My parents used to have a war-time artificial tree. The branches were wire and paper, very similar to the “bottle brush” trees you see now. I’m sure it must have originally been dark green, but by the time I was aware of these things, it had faded to a soft chartreuse. The trunk was a long dowel wrapped in brown paper, and the branches were tucked into the paper in such a way that they folded against the trunk if you turned the tree upside down. Daddy stored it in a long cardboard tube; pull it out of the tube and thunk the bottom on the floor, and the tree blossomed in front of you. Turn it upside down and thunk the top on the floor and the entire business collapsed so you could slide it back into the tube and – in our case – roll it under the bed until next year.
allen@home over 4 years ago
It maybe like the real thing. Tomorrow it’s going back and i am going to get a refund.
Gent over 4 years ago
It probably was the real thing itself.
whenlifewassimpler over 4 years ago
We had a beautiful thick artificial Christmas tree for many many years that looked like it was real. Many of our friends couldn’t believe it was artificial.
well-i-never over 4 years ago
They forgot to oil it.
flemmingo over 4 years ago
Hope to go up in the mountains and get my real tree today. A real tree sure makes house smell good. So what’s a little mess?
Egrayjames over 4 years ago
Tomorrow I’ll take my hand saw and go for a walk behind my house to cut this years tree. I picked out a nice spruce earlier in the Fall. Luckily we’ve had a good snow melt in the last few days so I won’t have to shovel snow to get to the base.
Diat60 over 4 years ago
Dey haf vays of making you buy a new tree every year.
ms-ss over 4 years ago
Our Christmas tree grows in a pot in our sun room. It hardly ever sheds needles. The artificial tree we put in the yard makes a mess in the garage every year while I am decorating it.
Zen-of-Zinfandel over 4 years ago
Buy a real tree now? That’s some food fir thought.
the lost wizard over 4 years ago
Koko is looking a wee bit guilty.
Dani Rice over 4 years ago
My parents used to have a war-time artificial tree. The branches were wire and paper, very similar to the “bottle brush” trees you see now. I’m sure it must have originally been dark green, but by the time I was aware of these things, it had faded to a soft chartreuse. The trunk was a long dowel wrapped in brown paper, and the branches were tucked into the paper in such a way that they folded against the trunk if you turned the tree upside down. Daddy stored it in a long cardboard tube; pull it out of the tube and thunk the bottom on the floor, and the tree blossomed in front of you. Turn it upside down and thunk the top on the floor and the entire business collapsed so you could slide it back into the tube and – in our case – roll it under the bed until next year.