To Tree or Not to Tree...That is the Question

Or is the question in your family "real" vs "artificial"?
I'm willing to give artificial a chance, especially if they have a bit of character.

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http://shop.treetopia.com/topnav/Category-Tree--Style-Funky

http://curiousphotos.blogspot.com/2009/12/100-unusual-christmas-trees.html

http://www.latimes.com/travel/deals/la-trb-offbeat-traveler-christmas-trees-20111205,0,3341210.photogallery

http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-most-unusual-christmas-trees.php

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Once upon a Christmas, a long time ago, a young married couple were expecting their first child.  Money was tight and a tree was a luxury they could not afford.  They went out, picked up a tumbleweed a fence had captured, and carried it home.  It was placed on the dining table, the only place in the apartment large enough to hold the dried plant (it turned out to be a lot bigger inside the house than it looked outside the house).  First they sprayed it with a fifty cent can of artificial snow.  Then they decorated it with red licorice and small red balls that cost $1.00 at the Five and Dime.  It didn't matter that there were no gifts under the "tree", it made them happy to have their own and unusual Christmas decoration.  Christmas was lean that year but the tumbleweed Christmas tree gave a feeling of cheer and hope.  It sort of represented the toughness of their life and the resilience of their spirit.  The couple had many years of Christmas trees, some real trees, some artificial, but never one as special as their first.

So you see, a Christmas tree doesn't have to be a real tree, it doesn't have to be a tree at all.  It just has to be what fits your life.

Love,
Buddy