I love Christmas.  I love the shopping and the wrapping and the card addressing and the decorating.  However, I do not love putting up the Christmas tree.   I've never had a real Christmas tree in my entire life  ( I know I can hear you gasping) but I'm fine with that.  My favorite tree, as a kid, was this silver aluminum one we had.  I loved the dumb thing.   So, as an adult...I did move on to a fake green tree...you know the ones where they come in like three parts and the tree trunk sits in a thingy with three legs???? Well, I lost one of the legs so it has only two legs which makes it wobbly.  Trying to put up a 5 foot wobbly tree by oneself is not pretty.   It tipped over....it slammed into the window...then fell on top of me.    I try to wire it to the wall...doesn't work.   I try propping it up with a stick....it leaned  to the right and the stick looked stupid.  Then I tried putting a rock on the two legs....that didn't work either.  I put the tree part in an urn to see if that would stabalize it.  It didn't .  I went out and bought a new tree stand.  One size does not fit all. While attempting to put the tree into the new stand which didn't fit...the plastic broke.    I took the tree apart and stuffed each seperate piece into a garbage bag and tomorrow it heads to the curb for trash pick up.   Its been replaced by a foot tall silver aluminum tree that has never failed me.    Pitiful yes but it won't fall on my head!  Plus its shiny...it'll keep me entertained for hours!

Wendy