09-12-2010, 12:51 PM
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Re: The Christmas tree.
Looking it up on Wikipedia I was surprised to find out that the tradition originated in the upper Rhineland around 1514, and listen to this: 'The Brotherhood of the Blackheads erected a Christmas tree in the Brotherhood house and danced around it, (pissed no doubt)'. Prince Albert made it popular in Britain about 1841. Any of your ancestors ever been squeezed by a Blackhead?.
11-12-2010, 01:58 PM
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Re: The Christmas tree.
SWMBO & I usually do it, but not together
We've used an artificial tree for the last 20 years and it serves us well and is so easy to put up and take down.I generally start putting the decorations on the tree and SWMBO finishes it, which means she changes the positions and adds a few more and generally re-arranges it in some mystical female format, but it does look nice
She doesn't touch the lights 'tho so I can truly claim that is my 'bit'
11-12-2010, 02:04 PM
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Re: The Christmas tree.
Originally Posted by bobmielke
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My apartment is so small I'd have no place to put a tree
Two for the price of one sheet of paper can't be bad can it http://www.amazon.com/Downswept-Hunt...ges/B002Q76DBA
11-12-2010, 09:19 PM
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Re: The Christmas tree.
Living alone if I want a tree I have to decorate it; except for untangling the pesky string of lights I rather enjoy the job and it does look nice if I say so as shouldn't. I haven't done one for the last several years as the job of getting it home carless and setting it up in the holder has gotten to be a bit too much.
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