On the way to the Post Office to buy stamps for Christmas cards, I saw this display of Christmas trees, and wondered who bought their trees this early.
The journaling on the back reads:
"When we were young children, my family always bought the Christmas tree on Christmas eve. I remember my father buying yards and yards of laurel to trim the windows early in December, but the tree waited until Christmas eve.
Since we didn't have a car, we would walk up to Torresdale Avenue to get our Christmas tree. The tree lot was located the same place each year--outside the library. A long time was spent deciding which tree to buy. When that momentous decision was made, we all hauled the tree home trying our best not to drag it on the ground.
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I'm amazed by how many people already have their trees up....you can have too much of a good thing....our tree always goes up middle of December.....though I do remember as a child nobody had a tree earlier than the week before xmas.
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