Did that tradition not start in Germany?
Yes, but it was Victoria and Albert that made it part of our culture.
Did that tradition not start in Germany?
Hmmm - Do conifers celebrate Christmas? Are all Christmas trees "spruce"?8O You better go back to "Christmas Trees". Much easier.I prefer the terms "coniferous" or :"spruce" to "Xmas trees."
Yes, but it was Victoria and Albert that made it part of our culture.
Yes, but it was Victoria and Albert that made it part of our culture.
Hmmm - Do conifers celebrate Christmas? Are all Christmas trees "spruce"?8O You better go back to "Christmas Trees". Much easier.
I guess I don't have a good "nose". Other than the very moment a "real" tree comes into the house, I can say that I have never walked into anyone's house and been able to notice the smell of the real tree anymore than my artificial one. In 45 years, we are on our 3rd fake tree so - we're not hard on the environment. I hate the dead needles all over my house that seem to last into next summer no matter how much vacuuming you do. My tree works perfect for me. Neither my husband or myself like putting the lights on the tree and he doesn't like decorating anything. So - my fake tree, comes with lights already on it and it takes very few decorations to make it look highly decorated. When Christmas is over - hubby helps me put it back into the tree bag and he takes it downstairs to store for next year. It's no biggie. I do not believe we have either added to nor taken away from the environment in anyway. We have just done what works for us.
In regard to people claiming there are people who are against Christmas trees - baloney. People who come here from foreign places love our Christmas trees and who wouldn't? They are bright and festive. Many of them put up Christmas trees themselves. Tis the season to be Jolly!!!
Thank you JLM but I am not deluded. A little flaky sometimes maybe but not deluded.Of course Old Vicky did have some German blood through her ancestor George I from Hanover.
Actually Balsam makes for one of the nicer Xmas trees. :smile:
Yeah, my wife is under the same delusion, just no appreciation for the real thing, the world is already too cluttered up with artificial garbage without adding more.
Obama Couldn’t Wait: His New Christmas Tree Tax
President Obama’s Agriculture Department today announced that it will impose a new 15-cent charge on all fresh Christmas trees—the Christmas Tree Tax—to support a new Federal program to improve the image and marketing of Christmas trees.
In the Federal Register of November 8, 2011, Acting Administrator of Agricultural Marketing David R. Shipman announced that the Secretary of Agriculture will appoint a Christmas Tree Promotion Board. The purpose of the Board is to run a “program of promotion, research, evaluation, and information designed to strengthen the Christmas tree industry’s position in the marketplace; maintain and expend existing markets for Christmas trees; and to carry out programs, plans, and projects designed to provide maximum benefits to the Christmas tree industry” (7 CFR 1214.46). And the program of “information” is to include efforts to “enhance the image of Christmas trees and the Christmas tree industry in the United States” (7 CFR 1214.10).
more bafflegab here:
Obama Couldn't Wait: His New Christmas Tree Tax
Love him or hate him, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is a man who sticks by his convictions.
He started by making Wisconsin more business-friendly, then took on the public sector unions. And now, the state lawmaker that has solidified a national name for himself is taking on atheists and non-believers — over the state’s “holiday” tree.
...spokesman Cullen Werwei confirmed that the decision was intentional. “It’s a Christmas tree,” Werwei said. “In all honesty, I don’t know what more to say about it.” In the Charleston Daily Mail, Don Surber echoed this sentiment, writing, “Republican Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin just ended 25 years of stupidity.”
more good news here:
Gov. Scott Walkers Upsets Atheists, Changes Holiday Tree to Christmas Tree | TheBlaze.com
Christmas 1, Holiday Tree 0 « Don Surber
It's not a matter of arguing, it's a matter of standing firm on traditions that are being challenged by people who are supposedly coming to this country for a better life.
Yep, there's always some f*****g A$$hole who wants to change something and generally for the worse. If they don't like Christmas they should rent a cave somewhere!
It's not a matter of arguing, it's a matter of standing firm on traditions that are being challenged by people who are supposedly coming to this country for a better life.
No couth .
Actually I was sorting thinking of it the other way around. It's the entire debate over it that I roll my eyes at.
I didn't word it right, my bad. A Christmas tree is a Christmas tree is a Christmas tree. Everyone should just learn to live with it.
Quite true. It's not like it was hurting anyone by calling it a Christmas Tree. And potentially getting in trouble with an employer for wishing someone a Merry Christmas? Bah Humbug! It's not like they're suddenly going to melt, right?
A Christmas tree is simply not a religious symbol. Nor is Merry Christmas a religious blessing. I wouldn't be put out if some said "Happy Holidays" to me, because it's the same thing basically.