What funny story. Thanks for telling it. We are early birds with ours. Tree up the day after Thanksgiving and take it down after New Years. We were even earlier this year, because out toddler grandson was here visiting the first couple of weeks of November. We knew we wouldn't be able to spend Christmas with him on Christmas. So we shared the little things. Like the tree, outside lights and making cookies.
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Prism99
We don't have our tree up yet, so I can't post a picture. We are usually very last-minute with our tree (a huge artificial tree we bought over 20 years ago) but then leave it up into March. My husband loads up the tree with I-don't-know-how-many-strings-of-lights and it cheers us up through the long dark winter nights in Wisconsin. Most people think we are nuts to do this, but it's ***our*** family tradition.........
I remember the first time my husband and I put up a tree. It was a natural one and, with our usual procrastination, we waited until Christmas Eve to actually put it up. Then discovered we had no stand for it! So dh rigged up thin ropes to the wall to keep it upright and we decorated as usual. What we didn't count on was the cat. He ran up the tree and brought it down on our heads! We just propped it up against the wall after that.
And for years I had at least two or three tree stands on hand in the garage!