Comments on: WHY IS THERE A TREE IN THE LIVING ROOM?

By: Sandra

Sandra — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 22:31:36 +0000

I must admit that an artificial Christmas tree never has the right smell. No matter how much “pine scented” air freshener you try, it is never the same. And, remembering the first artificial trees — not very enticing. My grandparents had one of the first ones — silver in color with a revolving light stand at the bottom. I think they used red “balls” for decoration. It just never seemed quite right, somehow.

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 00:26:29 +0000

we had a real tree – in the family room – and it was decorated by my parents with wonderful ornaments from Germany. A very few of them are left and stored in my attic. Tinsel was put on and most of it left on when the tree was taken down in early January. My husband and I have a very old ugly artificial tree bought on sale for about $5 about 37 or 38 years ago. One of our children had allergies so we could not have a real tree. This cheap ugly tree has been used yearly until last year. It is the family joke – we put it up in our family room and put lights on it – from outside on the road it looks lovely – close up – it is a bit of a horror.

By: Judith

Judith — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 19:25:03 +0000

We too had to put the tinsel on one strand at a time & remove the same way, but it was all worth it when it looked so pretty and smelled so good! We, however, did not have to wait to put up the tree so usually enjoyed it for at least 3 weeks. So sad to take it down – Christmas was over for another year.

By: Blind pew

Blind pew — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 06:08:31 +0000

As a child in England my parents always decorated the home big time but the decorations always had to be removed before the 6th of January or you would have bad luck all year. How we are governed by superstitions but still I insist all decorations are removed by January 6th. I want a happy and prosperous New Year – is that so bad of me?

By: Priscilla Hope

Priscilla Hope — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 03:15:15 +0000

As a child we always had a live tree in the living room and the smell of pine was wonderful! One year my mother decided that instead of our usual odd collection of decorations we would have a “theme” Christmas. Any gift put under the tree had to be wrapped in gold-colored paper. The tree itself had gold-colored satin balls in graduating sizes, the largest on the lowest branches. The very top of the tree held a rather drab brownish obviously fake bird. She said it was “a partridge in a pear tree”. Thank goodness the following year we returned to our “regular” decorations.