Aluminum trees are great. Instead of taking the family in the snow and starlight to pick up a live tree, you get to move boxes in the dark basement full of spiders to find the dusty memories of Uncle john getting sick last year, that we will never again mention.
You can put up an artificial tree earlier, like in your bathing suit in July. You can take it down later (see bathing suit comment). The cat soon learns he get poisoned by eating the boughs. The boughs can be bent in comical or obscene shapes (I didn’t write that).
Unfortunately, artificial trees ate not remembered year round like live trees. There are no sap stains on the rug. The screen door still closes. There are no needles under the rug in July. Most of all, you don’t get to haul it to the road, wait two weeks for Public Works to pick it up, then saying, heck with it and touching a match to it.
I’m just jealous. I live in the city. Do you know what a tree costs on a concrete corner? Can you imagine the traffic problems of dead trees rolling on a city street?
I got tired of helping kill more living trees and have stayed with our very nice artificial. Paid for it once and it keeps looking great year after year.
Never felt right killing a tree for winter solstice. I’d rather watch real ones full of birds, out the window. Never had kids, so no reason to put one up.
Flintstoned almost 15 years ago
Plastic lasts longer, and you can keep it for years. Weres Dotty?
lewisbower almost 15 years ago
Aluminum trees are great. Instead of taking the family in the snow and starlight to pick up a live tree, you get to move boxes in the dark basement full of spiders to find the dusty memories of Uncle john getting sick last year, that we will never again mention.
You can put up an artificial tree earlier, like in your bathing suit in July. You can take it down later (see bathing suit comment). The cat soon learns he get poisoned by eating the boughs. The boughs can be bent in comical or obscene shapes (I didn’t write that).
Unfortunately, artificial trees ate not remembered year round like live trees. There are no sap stains on the rug. The screen door still closes. There are no needles under the rug in July. Most of all, you don’t get to haul it to the road, wait two weeks for Public Works to pick it up, then saying, heck with it and touching a match to it.
I’m just jealous. I live in the city. Do you know what a tree costs on a concrete corner? Can you imagine the traffic problems of dead trees rolling on a city street?
I miss a live tree.
Takiniteasy almost 15 years ago
See, Lew, that’s what Christmas is for … to bring back memories like those.
FUNG1 almost 15 years ago
too bad Christmas trees became a business … NOW, most people cannot afford a REAL tree! AHHhh … those were happy memories for me.
Trebor39 almost 15 years ago
I got tired of helping kill more living trees and have stayed with our very nice artificial. Paid for it once and it keeps looking great year after year.
andymeijers almost 15 years ago
Never felt right killing a tree for winter solstice. I’d rather watch real ones full of birds, out the window. Never had kids, so no reason to put one up.