Upside down christmas tree, do you like them?

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.

I haven't seen anything like this. What's the point of it? Just to hang it off the ceiling to provide more room? That's kind of weird...

I dont think,that i would like that at all...the tree must look really ugly.I rather stick with the trational tree.

I have never even heard about those x-mas trees, but the idea itself is very original in my opinion :D

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.

i dont recall seeing a christmas tree upside down. lmao that seems so ridiculous to me!! However i did find a bit of history on the christmas tree that i would like to share with you.. Germany is credited with starting the Christmas tree tradition as we now know it in the 16th century when devout Christians brought decorated trees into their homes. Some built Christmas pyramids of wood and decorated them with evergreens and candles if wood was scarce. It is a widely held belief that Martin Luther, the 16th-century Protestant reformer, first added lighted candles to a tree. Walking toward his home one winter evening, composing a sermon, he was awed by the brilliance of stars twinkling amidst evergreens. To recapture the scene for his family, he erected a tree in the main room and wired its branches with lighted candles. So if any body that believes in the true meaning of christmas does this to thier tree, i feel it is in a sense disrespectful to part of the menaing behind the tree itslf

i dont like that...

If my christmas tree is upside down it means I don't want my family to be happy with the Lord.

That would be a real diferent Christmas!! lol Never saw a upside down Christmas tree. No gifts this year? :)

I had never heard of this until I saw your discussion here! So I had to go and have a look; I think they look pretty freaky. I wouldn't have one - it seems so wrong.

so people alwar the tree one week ago

I saw them. I think they are weird looking. I wouldn't have one.

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.

heya. i saw one yersterday for the first time also and i thought it was stupid. why not just get a small tree is sapce is your main concern. my three year old has learnt not to get things from the tree or presents from underneath it and this is the first time we have had a big tree. the other times we had a little one and it was up on the table anyway. its not hard to teach your kids not to touch. I definalty dont like the upside down tree it is not for me. Tanika

I never saw one!!! Im sure it looks cool but I like the original better

I have never seen or heard of an upside down christmas tree, where are these sold at so i could get online and look at them? It is not something that i myself would purchase however i would like to see what one looks like. What idiot came up with that idea anyway??? The things people will buy these days, geez!!

why have upside down christmas tree in the first place and does it looks like a christmas tree anymore, i would not prefer to have my christmas tree upside down, i prefer it as it is normal position. thats i think how christmas looks best.

i ahve seen them in stores and stuff but really dont like the way they look would rather look at one upside right

i have never seen one.

my dad has one but i dont like them. I think they ruin the whole christmas tree and arent eye catching at all