I understand it is "tradition", but does anyone else think this is really weird?
2006-12-13 09:31:58 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I do it because they smell fabulous and they brighten up the room with festive cheer! I don't see it any different than having a large ficus tree in your living room. Everything is decorated at Christmas, Halloween and Fourth of July ... so what is weird about it?
2006-12-13 09:37:03 · answer #1 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not sure who thought it up. But in our life time, it is what you said... "tradition". And a fun one at that. We haven't had a real tree in our house for years. But it's still just as much fun with the artificial tree. Fun to decorate and pretty to look at. Especially when there's lots and lots of presents under the tree. Obviously you are out numbered since this tradition has stayed alive for all these generations. If you don't like a Christmas tree then don't have one. If you celebrate Christmas without a tree.... THAT is weird according to the majority.
2006-12-13 09:39:47 · answer #2 · answered by Vida 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Affirmative action. These tree's have been neglected for many generations. They are not efficient use for fire burning (no one sticks these tree's into the fireplace), not used for lumbar (not made for building houses), and not used for paper making.
Eventually, since tree's can't speak, man stepped up for the this tree's right, and now they are hallmark icons durng christmas time.
However, the christmas tree are now under going a new crisis where they are being genetically modified to have this "perfect" christmas tree look and grown in harsh, overcrowded environments like the livestock we eat today.
2006-12-13 09:41:02 · answer #3 · answered by Jonathan Paek 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No... I are living in an apt. I do have a tree up! It's a 6ft white tree with teal and pink adorns, gold garland, silver superstar on most sensible and white snowflake lighting fixtures... and a lot of presents on the backside
2016-09-03 15:50:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First off, this tradition was started by Muslims. It is called Salamin Salamud, and means day of the tree. Story goes that a young boy asked his father what a tree looks like. As we all know, He said there are no trees in the ******* desert. The next day at school all the rich kids received gifts from there rich parents and started making fun of the young boy and the other poor kids. He ran home crying to his father and told him what happened, and the father upon hearing this swore that he would give his son the best gift ever. The father stayed up late that night and prayed to mohamed, " please help me keep my promise to my son." Minutes later, An evergreen tree fell out of the sky and landed right in front of the the man. He looked up to the sky and saw a giant metal bird that somehow flew without flapping his wings, in seconds it was gone forever. Although he was poor he knew from books he read that this was a tree, and he put it in his house and covered it up with a shroud. The next day the father took his son to school and all the rich kids continued their verbal assualt from the last day. The father said to them, " I have given my son something that all of your fathers put together can't get."
The children stunned, brought their fathers the next day to the poor man's house and demanded to see this this great gift. And upon unveiling the shroud from the tree they gasped, and wept with joy for they to had never seen a tree up close and personal before. The next day all the rich fathers used their cell phones to get trees for their kids and when everybody saw that everybody had trees in their house they called it salamin salamud, or the day of the tree. Whew! I can't believe I wrote such a pile of crap in 10 minutes.
2006-12-13 09:53:46 · answer #5 · answered by Andrew C 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't think so. It's part of the holiday to decorate trees with garlands, tinsel, ornaments and a tree topper like an angel, and to place gifts underneath the trees. Maybe it's just you.
2006-12-13 09:34:27 · answer #6 · answered by Kristen H 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I find it a bit odd. Then again I tend to question every little thing, simply because I'm amused. This question is the same as asking why we decorate our houses in different fashions. I don't know why, we just do. It makes us feel good for odd reasons ^_^ I'm cool with it...
2006-12-13 09:36:27 · answer #7 · answered by a_puerile_rampant_regicide 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i don't know but it seems really stupid how about just giving out the presents like you would do if it wasn't Christmas and also people are killing our environment when they cut down all those billions of trees for ONE day
2006-12-13 09:35:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think it is strange, not only to put the tree in your house, but to decorate it, with balls.
2006-12-13 09:48:48 · answer #9 · answered by Gary B 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The poor things would freeze to death in the woods if we didn't try to save them....
one tree at a time.
2006-12-13 09:34:25 · answer #10 · answered by MЯ BAIT™ 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋