After Husband and I were living in Arizona and had a family of our own, we continued to purchase a real tree every year. It was quite the production with the entire family driving around town to all the Christmas tree lots to find the very best tree. The kids thought it was great fun and they would come home tired so it worked out wonderfully!
Over time, we realized we were waiting until closer and closer to Christmas to buy our real tree so that it wouldn't be all dried out by the time Christmas Day rolled around. We tried to do all the right things to keep our trees from drying out but the dry Arizona environment just isn't conducive to real Christmas trees. Finally, we gave in and bought a huge, beautiful, but fake tree. Now we buy a nice smelling "real" wreath to make up for the lack of a real tree.
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You and I have gone the same way with the tree. One year my step mother gave me an ornament that had a pine aroma to hang in my "fake" tree.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your memories. Having a real wreath is a great idea.
ReplyDeleteGreat post! What a great idea to have the wreath if not the real tree. I may do that next year!
ReplyDeleteI remember those trips to the Christmas tree lots myself. Looking back it must have driven my Mom nuts to have us all running in different directions and not being able to keep us all in sight.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in dry areas (SoCal and Texas) and it was either artificial trees or real trees with a very short time until drying out.
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