Upside-down Christmas Trees: Cool or Not Cool?
By erinloechner
Ok Curblees-- you decide. Am browsing through the after-Christmas sales and keep running across these upside-down Christmas trees. Am contemplating hanging one over our kitchen table (the ceiling has a raised crown molding pendant), but am fearing it's a bit kitschy.
What do you guys think?
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sparkie
You got me curious so I did a search for info and was surprised to learn that upside-down trees are an old custom.
"Hanging fir trees upside down goes back to the Middle Ages, when Europeans did it to represent the Trinity. But now, Christmas trees are shaped with the tip pointing to heaven, and some think an upside-down Christmas tree is disrespectful or sacrilegious.", according to About.com. A hot trend this year, but originally designed for store displays.
My sister told me about a tree she saw in a magazine. It was an old, dried out needleless real tree spray painted red. Maybe last years tree? ??I haven't seen a pic. ??
CasaHartman
I was given one of these as (hopefully) a joke. I don't think kitschy is the right word... and I don't think Curbly is the place for the actual right word.
spikey
I had no idea this was a thing. My father did this from time to time 40 years ago. he'd hang them from the ceiling.
They were cedars, though, and actually looked pretty nice upside down--more ovally. Doing this with the fir style trees just looks annoying.
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