in the spirit of wanting to save a buck or two this Christmas, we opted not to buy a real Christmas tree as we usually do. sure, it’s a little sad, but we’re over it. we get over things pretty quickly in our household.
anyway, in the past, some of our trees have looked quite lovely, others (particularly the one from last year) could have given charlie brown’s little, skimpy Christmas tree a run for its money. last year’s tree wasn’t skinny like charlie’s tree, but its bulbous shape with nearly no point at the top, not to mention the huge hole on its side, left a lot to be desired in the way of a tree… as a matter of fact, this tree was really kinda awful.
i think my husband edell chose this tree because he felt sorry for it. you know like, “come home with me little tree and we’ll make you pretty…” only there wasn’t much we could do to make it pretty. i decorated it multicolored bulbs (no color scheme going on here, honey) and threw some lights on that sucka and called it a day. it kinda looked like the Christmas decorating section at target had thrown up on our poor tree. the ornaments were all strewn kinda haphazardly and well, it looked a hot daggone mess.
i’m not afraid to admit it.
oh, and can i just add that most of the decorations at the bottom of the tree seemed to have vanished because our then 1-year-old was having a great time de-decorating the tree and hiding the ornaments behind the couch? i thought it was bad having a Christmas tree with a cat in the house, but oh, kitties have nothing on 1-year-old’s. but then again my cat kizo used to climb the Christmas tree and knock it over and well, dutch hasn’t tried that yet thank goodness.
but i digress.
thank goodness i remembered that i had sent an old artificial tree to my father’s place for him to store in his garage years ago and well, this year our tree is more…well, it’s symmetrical at least. actually, that sucka still looks pretty good for a tree that i probably paid about $19.95 for at rite aid. of course it’s not all full like a real tree and no, it doesn’t have that wonderful pine smell, but that’s okay. i figured we could just buy some pine-scented candles. that’ll work, right?
even my psychedelic, multi-colored decorations look pretty good on this more Christmas tree-shaped Christmas tree. i actually think i love it! i still have that little pesky problem of keeping my son away from it though. but at least he’s graduated from hiding the ornaments behind the couch to stashing them in his big wheel’s seat.
here’s a little artificial Christmas tree factoid for you:
did you know that the first fake Christmas trees were sold in the sears, roebuck & company catalog waaaaaaaaaay back around the early 1900s? yes, indeedy. you could order a tree with 25 branches and candle attachments for a whooping 23 cents!! i don’t even think you can get anything out of the gumball machine these days for 23 cents.
