Not Your Traditional Christmas Trees: 15 Trees That Will Make You Scratch Your Head
by Not everyone has or wants the traditional tree that the term Christmas tree brings to mind. Check out some of these alternatives to the regular standard trees. They don’t all scream Christmas to me but they’re definitely different!
To me, Christmas is a time of family and friends. Of giving and receiving. A time for baking and singing carols and playing silly games half way into the night. Christmas is a time for children and watching their eyes light up as they open something that they really wanted. It’s a time of laughing and drinking and eating too much. And of course, the perfect back drop to all this merriment is the Christmas tree. It’s green and tall and full. It’s full of twinkling lights and ornaments collected over the years. You know, your traditional, average tree.
This is not what this article is about. Instead, this article seeks to discover the bizarre, the unusual trees that people love (or maybe hate). Christmas has become so commercialized, so materialistic. It seems that major corporations and malls have bought and paid for our ideals of Christmas. This article highlights some of those sorts of trees as well as trees bought at the Salvation Army and trees designed by artists and trees that are well, just different that the ones that I have in my house.
These “upside down” trees were all the rage last year. I guess they were designed so that you could place more presents at the bottom. It also has the side effects of being harder for pets and kids to climb up on. It just doesn’t say Christmas to me somehow. All the right parts are there but well, they’re upside down!
Here’s a different take on a Christmas tree — a bicycle sculpture all painted white. It’s definitely different. Maybe it’s a statement about environmental friendliness. Instead of chopping down trees or driving SUV’s, let’s all use bikes!
This strange little tree is tied to a fence literally in the middle of nowhere. It’s totally reminds me of Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree.
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John McDonnell
On December 5, 2008 at 7:10 am
Wow, these are amazing. I thought I’d seen everything in the way of Christmas decorations, but I guess not. I like the bicycle tree and the one with plastic tubing the best. Good job!
Jasin
On December 5, 2008 at 9:34 am
Great article, I loved the outside tree’s.
Debra.
On December 5, 2008 at 10:47 am
Excellent article, Paula! Some of them were just so outrageous and others were remarkable! The work and skill they required! Well done again, Paula!
MJPatrick
On December 5, 2008 at 11:38 am
Fabulous! I like the book on the shelves…lol easy to make hahaha.
Will Gray
On December 5, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Crazy and cool. Great article and great pics!
Joie Schmidt
On December 5, 2008 at 6:41 pm
I like the one from Canada the most – it’s so pretty!
Blessings.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.
Zacharias Fritz
On December 5, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Those blue glowing ones made me think of War of the Worlds.
John Heiser
On December 5, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Name for Book…well…concept and trees, mostly great.
Ruby Hawk
On December 5, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Your article is well written and your pictures are beautiful but I must say those Xmas trees are not my cup of tea. give me a green springy tree with all the bells and whistles. i am old fashioned and like the trees I know. Merry Xmas, Ruby
sue mcverry
On December 6, 2008 at 8:07 am
What a great article. I loved it.
Mark Bentley
On December 6, 2008 at 9:11 am
Wow, great trees! I love them. Now I want something interesting like that for our house.
I think I have a friend at work who could do the beer tree.
R J Evans
On December 6, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Love the beer bottles (but then I would!). This article makes me want to go out and be creative with my hands!
SAC
On December 6, 2008 at 3:27 pm
i can make the beer bottle one in one day/..
Nelson Doyle
On December 6, 2008 at 10:25 pm
My favorite is the bicycle tree. That must have took forever to build. Great article.
God Bless,
Nelson Doyle
eddiego65
On December 7, 2008 at 2:53 am
Wow! Great but unique Christmas trees! Enjoyed the article. Thanks!
James DeVere
On December 8, 2008 at 9:25 pm
The pictures are supurb. The upside down ones are very Salvador Dali.
Thanks . j
Mary Patricia Bird
On December 12, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Great! Now my daughter wants to drive down to Toronto and look for that Christmas tree of balls. It does look better lit up. We’re looking at the landmarks in the background… Hard Rock Cafe. But I told her we don’t even know what year this was and whether it’s there this year. Not worth the hour drive. LOL! Thanks for another great laugh.
Catelin Hoover
On December 15, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Wow! Talk about hi-tech innovations. And I thought the toothpick tree I helped construct in 9th grade home ec (as a table center piece for a mother-daughter luncheon) was super.
But that was too far back, it seems like antiquity! Paula these pictures are great…enjoyed seeing all the innovations, and reading your comments. Yeah, that blue tree does remind me too of the haunted forest Snow White ran through.
Thanks for a very entertaining article. Catelin
Rookie Expert
On November 13, 2009 at 2:13 am
Dunno if the bicycle sculpture tree was made with that message in mind, but i do like it! The spinning tree is my fav from the lot.
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