"Honey ......

 ................ I shrunk the tree"

This used to be an eight footer but is now a four and a half footer - same tree as here but I took the bottom (of three) poles out and just used the top two.

Whereas the original took me around five hours to get out of the garage, assemble and decorate, this year it was less than three - and that included the time messing about with it and discussing what to do.
We shall stick with the "trunc"ated version (also saves buying a new one!!).   It's harder work the older I get.

We bought it in 1994 at, the then, costly sum of £80 (and that had a 40% discount on it) but it's served us very well all these years and still looks thick and green and bushy.  It's taken us through serious illness, family deaths, three dogs and me cursing and grumbling about the hard work putting it up but it's OUR tree and it means a lot to us.   
I'm so happy we have found a solution to be able to keep it.

The tale of the tree.

~ Anni ~