Man these guys are a piss-you-off in large doses several times a day.
MY suggestion on Christmas trees? First, I actually read the books and there were no flying reindeer, pine trees, elf changelings, talking snowmen or grinches mentioned. Nor a marathon of different versions of a certain Dickens novel being acted out by everybody from Mickey Mouse to the casts of Good Times, Three’s Company, Alice and Aisle of Loosey. Even Gilligan’s Island. So I get to be a little bit cranky especially by well-known Holier-than-thou hypocrites like DumFOX Noose Nutwerx jumping in.
But here’s a way to keep your Christmas tree alive for longer than Humanity will be. Buy a live one in June or so, sometime when they’re not 50 bucks for a sapling, and plant it. Especially here where pine trees grow wild. I mean, in El Paso Texas it’s a death sentence to any pine tree you plant. Wow, what a concept… actually replenish the earth rather than deplete it.