Growing up, my family’s tradition was to tag a tree at a Christmas tree farm on Thanksgiving morning and then go back about a week or two later to get it chopped down. The past few years my husband and my Christmas tree tradition has been a bit less romantic. It involves going to Lowes on a weekday night when few shop, so that I can look at every 6-7′ Frazier Fir tree there is in the store! Mind you, this is not something my husband is very fond of, but it is our little tradition. I think everyone has Christmas tree traditions…what’s yours?

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