I’m having a quandary. About six years ago, one post-Christmas day, I bought a fake Christmas tree so I could start decorating my house. Mission accomplished. Two years ago, while taking down my tree, I accidentally broke one of the plastic pieces on the central “bark”; later that year, I moved, but I took my decorations with me, sans the broken tree. Since I was still renting last year, I skipped the whole decorating bit. This year, I have the quandary: do I buy a tree pre-Christmas and play a premium or wait until after Christmas and go without a tree again this year? Assuming I’ll have time post-Christmas to even get the freakin’ thing…

Then again, I don’t know where I’d put it, if I had it – I don’t have a free corner in the place!