Celebrate the age-old European tradition of upside-down Christmas trees

[patoadam]

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• Hang this inverted holiday tree on the ceiling, and look at Christmas decorating from a whole new angle
• Celebrate the age-old European tradition of upside-down Christmas trees
• Leaves more room on the floor for gifts!

Are any of my European friends familiar with this "age-old European tradition"?

In other news, yesterday Adam asked, "If the Pilgrims were so hungry, why didn't they go to McDonald's?"

Comments

[ina]

I have never heard of it.

[nelladarren.livejournal.com]

I think someone is trying to fool people. Never saw an upside-down Christmas tree - and they have pretty farout ideas in some catalogues.

Also - as far as I know there is no "age-old" European tradition. Having Christmas "trees" started out as an idea in 18th century Germany (those where only small wooden tree-like thingies), was carried over to Britain by Prince Albert and then became a real tradition all over the Western World, mixed with other habits of keeping green stuff for decoration during the winter time.

Why didn't the Pilgrims go to McDonalds? Because they'd have had to pay there in another currency than smallpox... :o)))

[patoadam]

When A.T. met shannachie, I told him that she came from a faraway country called Germany, where Christmas trees had been invented. Well, I actually said "hamburgers, hot dogs, and Christmas trees", but I had no idea if I was correct about the first two. When I asked shannachie, she told me that hamburgers and frankfurters have nothing in particular to do with Hamburg and Frankfurt.

[nelladarren.livejournal.com]

I think I read somewhere that Hamburgers and Hot Dogs where inventions of German immigrants in the US. Does that count as "German"?
Of course sausages and meatcakes made of minced meat ARE German dishes.
Enjoy your bovine flesh...
:o))

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

I think I'm going to add "bovine flesh" as a LiveJournal interest :)

[nelladarren.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, let's do that, it will match the moon on the stick!
And actually it sounds like cow porn... :o))

[vampirdaddy.livejournal.com]

Well, while I do know christmas trees hanging from the ceiling (or into windows), they are not very common or not very visible as hanging variant - but they *always* are "the right way up".

The most common form is to secure ceiling-high trees, which are half hanging, half standing - and thus not immediately recognizable as "hanging" as its top is reaching the ceiling, camouflaging the wires used to secure the tree...

Ah, yes - for the "age-old" tradition see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_tree - no mention of the reverse thingie here either.

[h-punkt.livejournal.com]

could the tree bee an exportmodel for "downunder" ???

[catalana.livejournal.com]

My sister did that once, but it was to keep the cats from climbing her tree. *grin*