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ALUMINUM TREE
By: Asharah Date: October 22, 2021, 5:02 pm
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I am addressing this to people who, like me, grew up with the
"shiny aluminum tree" and the rotating color wheel for
Christmas.
I'm curious as to how many families did as we did and dismantled
it and put it back in the box every year, and how many families
just stuck it in a closet or corner somewhere and threw a sheet
over it til next year.
Seriously, we even kept the individual paper sleeves for the
branches and put them back in them every year.
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other thing was
Mom wanted a live tree, so the aluminum tree went in the window
and the real tree went in the basement of all places. The kids
at school asked why we didn't have a real tree, and I said we
did but in the basement. And they ask why. How should I know,
I'm in fweakin' grade school and that was how we did Christmas
at my house.
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Re: ALUMINUM TREE
By: holly firestorm Date: October 23, 2021, 2:04 am
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I remember those aluminum and all white trees. We had artificial
trees for most of my childhood, but they were green and looked
real...or at least realish.
I currently live in a small apartment and have a 4' artificial
green tree that I take out of storage, unfold, and decorate
every December and un-decorate, take down, tie up and put in
storage every January. It's safer and a whole lot less expensive
than buying a real tree every year.
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Re: ALUMINUM TREE
By: STiG Date: October 23, 2021, 8:38 pm
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We had one of those aluminum trees. I was allowed to put it up
in an alcove in the upstairs and decorate it myself. Mom and
Dad would put our stockings under it when we were too old for
Santa but young enough that we still got up early. So when we
woke in the morning, we could get our stockings and go through
them to give Mom and Dad a little more sleep.
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Re: ALUMINUM TREE
By: Winterlight Date: October 23, 2021, 8:39 pm
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My family used a fake tree that my parents bought 40+ years ago
(I'm Jewish, but mom was Episcopalian and she really liked
Christmas so dad was cool with it.) We usually put it up in the
week before Christmas and took it down a few days after. There
were enough real trees outside that mom never wanted to cut one
down.
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Re: ALUMINUM TREE
By: gramma dishes Date: October 24, 2021, 8:29 am
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[quote author=Winterlight link=topic=2192.msg71151#msg71151
date=1635039599]
My family used a fake tree that my parents bought 40+ years ago
(I'm Jewish, but mom was Episcopalian and she really liked
Christmas so dad was cool with it.) We usually put it up in the
week before Christmas and took it down a few days after. There
were enough real trees outside that mom never wanted to cut one
down.
[/quote]
When our kids were young we had some Jewish neighbors across the
street who had kids our kids' ages. They were quite happy
being Jewish, but loved their friends' Christmas trees. So
they bought an artificial tree, set it up and hung non religious
ornaments on it and called it their Hanukkah bush.
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Re: ALUMINUM TREE
By: Lilipons Date: October 24, 2021, 10:43 am
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When I was a child we always had real trees that were sold to
support the local volunteer fire department.
When I moved to the city, I was living alone in a third floor
walk-up apartment. A real tree of respectable size was out of
the question. An artificial tree filled the bill and, 50 years
later, Mr. Pons and I still live in a third floor walk-up. Over
the years, we’ve had only three artificial trees that are packed
up in their original boxes and put away in a closet for the
better part of the year. I think our Christmas celebrations
haven’t done much harm to the environment.
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Re: ALUMINUM TREE
By: Buffalogal Date: October 24, 2021, 5:26 pm
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My parents had one of those aluminum trees. We had the original
box and put each branch away in the paper sleeves each year.
The tree had been my grandparents. They gave it (and the color
wheel light) to my parents. We had that tree in the living room
with delicate ornaments on it and a real tree in the family room
with more casual ornaments. When my parents moved to a bigger
house they had a green tree in the family room; a white tree in
the living room and that tree in the loft. That aluminum tree
is now at my sister's house. It must be almost 70 years old
now. It is fragile but still usable.
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Re: ALUMINUM TREE
By: cymbaline246 Date: October 24, 2021, 7:45 pm
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We grew up with real trees. I never bothered when I lived in an
apartment in the city. When Late Husband and I bought a house,
we started getting real trees. One year, we set one up and it
was so dry a couple days later, I almost didn't dare to leave it
up until Christmas day. The day after Christmas I purchased a
real-ish looking fake one on sale.
That's been the tree for maybe twenty years. In years when I
wasn't feeling especially festive, I put up a crafty mini-tree
made from an inverted tomato cage covered with grapevine.
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Re: ALUMINUM TREE
By: Kimberami Date: October 25, 2021, 7:30 am
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I'm allergic to most evergreens. I have never been able to have
a real Christmas tree. My mom donated a plastic tree to my
elementary school that moved up every grade with me until 6th.
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Re: ALUMINUM TREE
By: BeagleMommy Date: October 25, 2021, 8:57 am
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My parents had real trees until a few years ago when it became
too hard for either of them to put one up. They now have a very
realistic looking artificial tree.
Friends of mine in elementary school had one of the aluminum
trees with the color wheel. I thought they were the height of
coolness.
I believe you can still get the aluminum trees through the
Vermont Country Store catalog but they cost a lot now.
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