Our Christmas Tree story!

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My parents had a real Christmas tree every year, until about 1974.
The year before, with us kids (my two younger sisters and I,) picking needles out of the carpet in January, my Dad said, "Next Christmas, we get a fake one."

Well, the first fake one was...



Complete with color wheel!

To this day, all anyone has to say in my family is "aluminum tree" and we laugh.
It was so ugly!

The next year we got a fake tree, (green this time,) and my parents used it for the next 30 years.

My Mom now has a small fiber-optic tree, since Dad died 4 years ago, Mom sold the Christmas tree to an antique dealer.

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1. we inherited an aluminum tree

our house is too small 2 accommodate it. the cats would eat it and die.

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2. picking the needles out of the carpet.

I'm guessing, since it was 1974, it was a shag carpet. I don't know if you could ever completely get all of the needles out of those. But yeah, I think that's when artificial trees became popular.

I have never seen the aluminum version. The artificial trees have certainly come a long way since then, though. The fiber-optic trees are nice. My mother-in-law had a beautiful small one. It's it our dining room every Christmas now.

We still keep a real one in the family room, but I am very close to going to artificial in the near future.

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3. Yup, shag carpet.

I think the needles are still in that carpet! (In whatever landfill that ugly harvest gold shag went...)