Alright Mike, you got me thinking about soooo many stories, unfortunately some I won't post about
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I remember my dad putting up a Christmas tree and he couldn't afford a tree stand... wait a minute.....he couldn't afford a tree either so he went into a woods and cut down a tree..... and then he nailed two pieces of wood together into a "+" shape and nailed it to the bottom of the tree....when he stood the tree up he drove what appeared to be spikes from the top right through the carpet and into the floor
....the tree tipped over so he put a hook into the ceiling and tied a string from the hook to the top of the tree to anchor it ...by the time Christmas was over that tree was soooo dry static electricity would have created an indoor inferno......and that my dears was a Christmas to remember......