Upside down christmas tree, do you like them?

I have never seen an upside down Christmas tree. But I would most definitely not like them. Yes, I feel that I have the right to say that without actually seeing one, because the sheer thought of it bothers me. When I think Christmas tree, I think big, real, full of decorations, the star/angel standing proudly at the top almost bumping the roof as it radiates it's splendor. How do you even hang a Christmas tree upside down... I can't imagine that it would look pleasant in anyone's home. No matter what the circumstance may be. But I'm also more fond of real trees than fake ones. So to have a fake one, and hang it upside down... Well, it just wouldn't ever be found in my home.

i dont like that...

I actually did this once in the 70's, purely on a dare by co-workers when I worked at this one hospital. When you get triple-dog-dared, you have to just go for it in the name of fun.

When I did it, I hung it from the ceiling on a hanging plant hook, and used a real tree. I screwed in an eye-bolt into the bottom and hung it. All decorations were wired on, and with the tinsel carefully draped, it looked more like a big pine chandelier lit up.

It was the hit of the neighborhood that year. Each and every neighbor came over to see it, and brought their kids and friends to see it. Everyone I worked with came to see it, and it was a real good chuckle for the season, and very talked about. Everybody took pictures of it and showed them around. Let's say I never had so much company in my life, and all of them loved it and thought it was fun for a change. Out of all of the scads of people who saw it, only one person had something negative to say: it's sacreligious! That started a big discussion between all the co-workers defending the tree and telling her that since the tree part wasn't a religious symbol, that it couldn't be sacreligious.

I've never done a tree like that again, it was really hard work. I do have pictures in one of my Christmas albums from back then, and when people look at them their first reaction is to say 'how'd you get that desk and chair upside-down?' Sometimes I run into a few of them that I used to work with 30+ years ago, and invariably, they always say 'remember that year so & so dared you and you hung that Christmas tree up-side down...' What can I say except we all had fun with it.

The only other 'weird' thing I ever did with a Christmas tree was the year my husband and a buddy went into our woods and chopped down this humongous fir tree. It was too tall for our living room. So I had him put it into a tree stand and chop off about 2 feet from the top and placed it by the open stair-well. The big part of the tree was in the living room and the top part was upstairs. When you looked at it, it looked like it grew through the ceiling into the second floor. People liked that one too for some reason. All I knew was that my hubby took pride in how huge the tree he cut was, and that somehow I had to figure it in, since he didn't really want to make it shorter. Christmas is supposed to be a time of fun...I say: hey, why not? It's good for a laugh sometimes. Almost always though, I go for the traditional tree.

Honestly, the first time I saw one, I was baffled. I don't care for them, but to each his own! It just doesn't seem natural.

Upside down Christmas trees sounds like a dumb idea. I'm with you on that. I haven't seen any though...not that I shop much except where I work. That's just nutty sounding.

I have never seen one and I think its just dumb. I would never do that. My cat sits and plays with the ornaments but has never tried to take them off and my kids are old enough now to leave it alone.
My cat does however love to open the gifts when they are under the tree.

I don't know where you live, but I haven't seen an upside Christams tree. If you saw this tree in a department store, then whoever put it up, is going to lose their job. A christmas tree is suppose to be the centerpiece of attraction to the mall or the store. I love Christams trees and to see all the different themes of the trees.

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That is hilarious, I have never seen one, but when I think about kids knocking my tree down or pulling all the decorations off, it sounds like a great idea.

Christmas morning you can hardly move in the living room from all the gift, it would be easier if they could be piled under the tree,lol.

I have moods sometimes and if I happened to see that, and the mood was upon me, I'd probably go for it, just for the laughs.

I can picture the photo album, line the kids up with the tree and get kids hanging upside down in the tree pictures, HAHAHA.

Oh see, now the mood has hit me, so where did you see this tree?

I never saw such a thing and it sounds so stupid. What store was doing that? Maybe they were not displaying it, just working on it.