'Here’s the thing about getting a Christmas tree: it is an event'
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Maybe it was because I spent last holiday season alone in the same cramped studio I’d spent all of lockdown in, or maybe it was being confronted with our collective mortality and suddenly feeling more of a zest for life, but this year, I thought it might be nice to give this tree thing a shot. Mostly, it was just because my boyfriend and roommate both wanted one. Except that, somehow, I ended up deeply, inextricably involved.
Another thing I’m learning: Christmas trees must be watered? I thought “evergreen” translated to “never needs care,” but okay. Now that my education is complete, it’s time to buy a tree. My boyfriend and I stumble across a Christmas-tree stand on the side of the road, where a friendly man named Chris helps us select a seven-foot monstrosity of pine and straps it securely to the car.
Once you get the tree home, you must cram it into its stand, the most challenging and least glamorous part of the experience. But once that is done, the arts-and-crafts-meets-home-improvement project begins. There is netting to be snipped away. There are little pins and strings to be looped through ornament holes. There is the issue of spacing it all out evenly.
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