Black Christmas Tree at Wal Mart tonight.
I’m sure someone else is far more qualified to address this subject than I am… but I’m just thinking about how low our country has sunken. I’m not talking about the economy – I can’t even maneuver through the malls because of all the people. I’m not talking about politics! I’m not talking about morality! This time they’ve gone and messed with something that stirs up the hackles. It’s a BLACK CHRISTMAS TREE.
THIS SITE declares that black Christmas trees were brought over from Britain. THIS SITE declares they were started as Halloween trees – a much more understandable color choice. According to THIS SITE the black Christmas trees are a fashion statement, and are hard to get as they are so popular. I think we’re too late to put a stop to this!
We’ve endured some admittedly bad Christmas tree disasters. I also saw today pink and purple trees, but i can excuse these because they are related to kids toys. It’s not the family Christmas tree. We have taken trees, sprayed white globby stuff on them, charged double, and pretended they were snow-covered. I can feel good about this because it is, at least, an effort to capture something found in nature. A black tree is only found under an oil rig or in a burn pile. There have been the silver trees, no doubt a misstep that led us to the black trees. The silver trees sometimes had lights pointing at them as a colored pane circulated …. almost giving the aura that your silver tree is actually changing colors….but not quite. We even have trees in our yards that are an assemblage of wires that looks like an accident in the day time but at night, in the dark, one can make out the shape of a triangle…and since it’s Christmast time … it could be a tree.
But it’s not just the trees. The black decorations are abundant. Black Christmas cards would be sad to receive. I’m just hoping I’m not insulting some wonderful reader who is so happy about their black Christmas tree. Not to rub salt in the wound, but did you watch the GRINCH too often? You know he slid on a greasy black banana peel. What about “black” says “Christmas”?
The cause of all of this were the little concessions we made in the area of cuteness. Blue trees. Trees with fiber optic endings that became pink, purple, orange, and teal … and we thought that because it was fiber optic it was beautiful. They are not beautiful.
Go watch Little House on the Prairie. Watch the Waltons Family Christmas. Watch Eight Is Enough. Watch all of the Christmas episodes of all of the shows. No one brings home a black Christmas tree. We simply know as a culture that this is wrong. If Archie Bunker’s son had brought home a black Christmas tree…well…we can see what kind of explosion that would set off.
It’s just wrong. You can’t hang your children’s home-made decorations on a black tree. You can’t put a white shining angel on top of a black tree. You can’t put festive packages under a black tree. It’s just creepy.
Yes, this was a bit rantish! But I held back for my sensitive readers. There is the rant about glitter … and the rant about dirty Santa … not to mention the rant about …oh…I can’t remember. But it’s a good one.
And if you have already bought one of these black Christmas trees and feels it is an excellent decoration for your home, I certainly do hope you have happy holidays sitting around your black tree … singing tunes to the Lord around that black tree … giving a speech about the love in your heart… around that black tree.
Thanks for Reading!
John
I agree John. I saw those trees discussed in a magazine article last year and they were supposed to be the greatest for “deco” in the elite homes in New York etc.
I like my Christmas decorations and like you they can have this it just isn’t pretty…very sad. Sort of like paying good money to send someone a bouquet of dead flowers.
I have instructed Patti to take back the black Christmas tree we bought for this season. We will exchange it for a purple. lol.
C3
Christmas brings out the “rant” in the best of us….
I am sure I will have one soon.
Now I know not to buy a black Christmas tree. Also, will not put up my fiher optic tree. Son you gave me a giggle.
Thanks for having the boldness to rant on this particular subject. I agree. Christmas trees are green, smell like pine, and dry out and begin shedding needles before Christmas. It’s proper. It’s exciting to get them up, and even more satisfying to carry them back out and throw them away. Kinda like owning a boat, only cheaper.
i emotionally prepared myself for an emotional and personal post, glad it was this instead.
Okay, I would never go for a black Christmas tree myself …. but …. wouldn’t it make a great Saints tree?? Just imagine gold fleur de lis hanging on it with maybe some gold balls and some gold tinsel and some football ornaments….not quite sure what to use for a tree topper…..
it would make a better football ornament tree if ya put the Pittsburge Steelers yellow or gold
or Mizzou Tigers, and 4 the tee topper a hemet!~
;)
Ban the black trees!
Of course, I never thought I’d own an artificial tree but I do, light and all.
Oh, did I say I already have it up. Zeesh.
We have our house on the market and are, for the first time ever, getting an artificial tree so as to avoid the shedding needles. My children are NOT happy. . .but when I tell them we COULD have gotten a BLACK tree, they will think I’m wonderful because I didn’t. My sister-in-law wore a black wedding dress. I. Am. Not. Kidding. Way worse than a black tree.
I can’t imagine what market the makers or the black tree are seeking to appeal to. Goths? Night worshippers? Satanists? Withches, warlocks, demonologists? The anticlause? What? Seek the old paths, oh purveyors of PC – the ones who say “you must accomodate every conceivable variable of thought and/or belief system.” No way, buddy. The tree has to be green or it ain’t a Christmas tree, period!! You can take you black tree and shove . . . I’m sorry, I’m sorry!! (Not). Thank you, John for your diligence.
Black.I can’t stand that color.I never have.And yes, our country has sunken to the depths of the Sewer and into the netherworlds of Hell.Black Christmas Tree.I’ve heard it all now.
Gracious. People have strong feelings about black Christmas trees. Indeed. Oh, and that MikeR dude waxing poetic about Christmas trees? Yeah, let me just tell you some stories about the Christmas cheer and the lights…