Quoted:
Quoted: Christmas trees should be real, and they should have real candles in them.
What's the point of holding onto customs if we don't bother to do it right?
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Something about real lit candles in a dried out tree doesn't exactly sit with my right.
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Obviously, you want to have a bucket of water or a fire extinguisher nearby (just in case). But throughout my childhood and teen years, my family never had a tree catch fire, nor did any of our relatives or friends. So it's not really that big a problem.
To me, having electric lights on a tree is just as lame as having a plastic tree. (Not knocking anyone who does these things - just saying that I don't personally like it, because it doesn't seem "right")
Although a tree did catch fire in the sergeant's mess one year when I was in the army - but that was because of someone kocking it over during a drunken Christmas lunch, so it's really not fair to blame the tree for that.