by R.H. Vincent
How to cut down a Christmas Tree in the city: You and your family drive down to the local Christmas tree lot. Your eyes strain against the poor lighting, as you try to locate the perfect tree. Selecting one, the snot n...read more
by Rex Coker
The kids and I made a tradition of finding and cutting down our own tree every year at Christmas time. We stumbled on this quite by accident one year at a cub scout outing with the pack. My son grabbed the cordless recipro...read more
by Allen Teal
We have all been smitten with the idea that we want to go into the woods and chop down our Christmas tree. All of those movies and television specials showing a merry band making their expedition to find the perfect evergr...read more
How to Cut Down Your Own Christmas Tree the Smart Way In order to learn how to cut down your own Christmas Tree, you should first watch a movie entitled, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation starring Chevy Chase. You ...read more
Like the song, "The 12 Pains of Christmas" declares, finding a Christmas tree heads the list of pains. But it doesn't have to be. It ought to be fun for the entire family. When Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) took his fami...read more
by Helen Heard
I remember, when my family lived in Chile, South America, at Christmas time, my mom used to get branches from our neighbors' pine tree. She would then tie them together at the bottom, and fluff them out to make a tree. Of ...read more
Twenty years ago, while attending college, the most beautiful Christmas tree in the Midwest stood in our living room. It was an old Victorian home with eight bedrooms shared by several girls of our sorority. As the cool ch...read more
The Death of a Pine Tree is the Birth of Your Holiday Celebration So you want to start your own holiday tradition, and you decide that nothing says Christmas better than cutting down your very own Christmas tree. Howeve...read more
by Phronesis
Do you know that there are suggestions in many places that Christmas trees should be cut down from normal trees planted in the surroundings? Well, we'd need more research to understand the reason people suggest such things...read more
by Rex Trulove
Selecting, cutting, and hauling in your own Christmas tree can be a wonderful family experience, and make the tree seem just that much more special. You don't need to be a woodsman to do it, either. Begin by determinin...read more
Anyone can go to a store and buy one of those so-called plastic Christmas trees, or you can go further out of town and purchase a precut tree sold by thrifty sellers out to make a few extra dollars. With various restric...read more
A few years ago I was living in Ireland, now I'm here in Taiwan. It's the 24 of December and it's business as usual, tomorrow is Christmas day and I'll be working. I must admit it doesn't feel like Christmas ,day time temp...read more
by Cregg Jaxson
Whether you put your Christmas tree up and get it all decorated the first day after Thanksgiving or wait until a few days before Christmas Day, the tree remains important to many families. One of the bigger decisions a fa...read more