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73SC wrote:

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Good quality fake goes up in the living room a week ago, real one dressed in Chocolate goes up this weekend in the dinning room.


Where in Welland did you say you lived? Yum....

My kids are substantially older than your's and they are working a tree per room, trying to shame me into doing it.


Woodlawn/Niagara area-21 Edgewood Ave-its a european tradition to have one dressed in candy



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 It's a european tradition to have one dressed in candy


Geez, that explains why ours is covered in candy canes...who knew?

While we're at it where did the tradition of decorating a tree come from anyway? I think I know but interested to know what others might say.



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I believe it was Germany. My wife is German and she remembers having candles on the tree when she was a kid. Now there's a hazard.

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I believe it was Germany. My wife is German and she remembers having candles on the tree when she was a kid. Now there's a hazard.


First answer is Correct!!!!

How then did it get to Canada?



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I believe it was Germany. My wife is German and she remembers having candles on the tree when she was a kid. Now there's a hazard.


First answer is Correct!!!!

How then did it get to Canada?


Boat ?

my wife with her ideas came via Airplane but we've been decorating trees a long time-gotta be boat !


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I'm of dutch background and I grew up in PEI with real candles on the trees, (makes sense as they were neighbors to the Germans) this was back in the 60's. When I think now of the fire hazzard that must have been!!! I als oremember there being a bucket of water nearby.

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Well as I understand it Queen Victoria married Albert of Hanover, a German. The Protestant religions had adopted the tree decorating as a Christmas custom although it began as a Solstice celebration on December 21, the shortest day of the year.

Albert brought the custom to Buckingham Palace and Queen Victoria popularised the tradition in the colonies and western culture in general. This was circa 1830, so really not that old of a tradition.

Here is the real deal in the White's house:

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Beautifull tree! biggrin   very nice  clap.gif   AND you have presents!!!!!!!  We could not decide, It was, have a tree, or have a present... cry    p.s. did you notice I pasted?

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  p.s. did you notice I pasted?


     
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I grew up in an evergreen tree nursery. We still live on that location but the nursery is closed now. Lots of trees here, LOTS. We have a fake tree. Years ago I said never a fake tree for this cowboy. Now I can't bring myself to cut down a tree just to enjoy it in here for a few short weeks and then it's destroyed. Rather look out the window at them for years to come.

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We don't have that many to look at in Hog Town when we peer out our windows.

Christmas trees are actually a product. 98% are grown on farms for the specific purpose of being cut down and sold as Christmas trees. In Canada about 6,000,000 trees are sold each Christmas. It is about 35,000,000 in the USA so the Christmas Tree industry is a huge employer and contributor to our economy. Only about 20% of homes have a real tree, 35% have none and the remaining 45% have fake. Clearly having a real tree puts one in the minority but in reality the environmental argument against not having real is not that strong.

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The ones we raise here were never intended to be for Christmas trees though. That is why I can't bring myself to do it. That and most of them are to the north of our home and the incredible shelter they provide from winter winds makes me want to hug every one of them when they are doing their job!

I'm not one for all the glitz that goes with Christmas anyway. I find I am distracted easily enough by the world without all that too!

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Don't think for a minute I would cut one down if I lived at place like yours. The ones in the City are perfectly shaped and sized, just like picking out a shirt. I think the big City means big Christmas glitz, it must be nice to have a lower key and slower pace and be able to celebrate the true meaning.

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We're about as low key as it gets. We go to the window and look out when the train goes by!

And yes, I love it. I am not criticizing, but I see no point in life in the city if there is work to be had out here. I'm a true country boy I guess. I would only work/live in the city if forced to.

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Carl Stevenson wrote:

 I see no point in life in the city ..... I'm a true country boy I guess. I would only work/live in the city if forced to.


I suppose this is why we have cottages to escape to in the summer months, well many go year round too.



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Funny thing is, we have more neighbours at the lake. Closest ones at home are a 1/2 mile away.

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