Christmas Tree Placements

Okay, it's finally December, and your family gets out or purchases your Christmas Tree. Close your eyes and picture it...but then open them again because you have to read the rest of this. This is golden. Anyway, this year you might want to put it in the basement if your basement's finished, or in the bathroom, or in your living room, because you need a good, comfortable environment to open presents in, right? Well, then imagine your parents VETO your idea for placements of the tree in favor of putting it somewhere where it can be seen through a window if you happen to be driving by and staring through people's windows. So then you have to open presents in an unpleasant computer room, or kitchen, or garage, or roof, or fire escape. Depending on where you live. But that makes living in a glass house that much simpler. I mean, you can't throw stones, but you don't need to worry about where to place the tree for maximum curb appeal. The latter makes up for the former. Not being able to chuck rocks inside your house is a major bummer.

But for the 99.999999999999999999% of the world's population that doesn't live in a completely glass home, your parents constantly make you put the tree in an uncomfortable position to impress the neighbors, strangers, airliners or paparazzi. Depending on your living situations. If any parents are reading this, think of Christmas spirit! No one's gonna come over to your house saying:

"How in the name of all things bright and beautiful did you make your tree look so gorgeous?!"


"Oh, I didn't think anyone would notice...!"


"It makes me jealous. Let me give you all the presents I have gotten this year as a reward for placing your tree in an uncomfortable spot so you may grace all of mankind with its beauty! And I will tell everyone about this tree!"


Really. Come on. Everyone does this. Just drive down a road, and at least half of the houses will have the tree right in a glaringly obvious window. The other half's trees will still be visible, but not so glaringly obvious. Christmas Trees should not count for inside and outside decor, just inside! Everyone falls for peer pressure! As Lemony Snicket so poetically said, "The trick [to peer pressure] is to succumb to enough pressure that you do not drive your peers away, but not so much that you end up in a situation in which you are dead or otherwise uncomfortable."

And another sad Christmas Tree thing is that many adults only decorate the visible side of the tree- if your tree is against a wall, or even worse, in a corner, then many times those sides of the tree will go undecorated and bare. Sometimes parents don't even put lights on those sides. It's all very sad. Of course, if your tree is against the window, the adults will be very careful to decorate that side. But for a wall? Noooo. What's wrong with walls? 

It's just sad knowing that part of your tree is undecorated, especially if you have decorations or lights left over. (If you are poor and don't have enough of those, that's a different thing.) Just the visible sides are decorated. The sides that aren't immediately visible are left bare and empty. That's like saying that you don't really care.


Children, teens, take note! If someday you become parents, you can correct all of this! Your children will experience true Christmas, and not a facade of a mask of a holiday! 


It is late, I believe I have gotten my point across, and because tomorrow is Christmas Eve, I will sleep in. Ciao. 
Tyler