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Growing up, the tree went up on the day after Thanksgiving and came down on January 1st. (yes, fake or flocked trees so they would last that long). We virtually always had the mishmash of homemade ornaments, cheapies bought when that's all my parents could afford and then a few fancy ones that would have been gifts. Does anyone really need sterling silver or crystal Christmas ornaments? If nothing else, they're always too heavy and droop.
I haven't put up a tree of any kind in several years, but I did see a cool tree shaped metal frame at Crate & Barrel from which you could hang 6 or 8 ornaments. If I wasn't worried about us moving AGAIN, I'd have bought that and a couple interesting ornaments. They also did an AMAZING display, hanging charcoal grill grates from the ceiling (perfectly clean and shiny of course) with ornaments hanging at varying lengths.
It seems to me the trend lately is to have 2 or more trees in your house, one being the old-fashioned mix of personal ornaments and one or more being a theme ranging from beautiful to freakishly pretentious.
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