Sometimes it takes me a while to get in the holiday spirit. I blame 5 years of working in retail and hospitality.
The worst of it – having to listen to holiday music for 6 weeks straight.
But what if Christmas was your JOB. And no, I don’t mean working as the jolly man in the red suit.
The National Christmas Tree Association is the trade association for Christmas tree growers.
Obviously its busiest time of year would be right about now. The Association does a nice job of providing lots of resource information via its Web site for news media. The Web site’s not slick, but it’s useful.
Highlights:
- Extensive background information and fact sheets. Who knew Christmas trees were so complex!
- Random fun facts like: In 1531, the first retail Christmas Tree lots are started in German cities.
- Lots of good recycling information. None of which is: leave it in your backyard until it decomposes (honey! I told you so!)
- A good deal of consumer information. Unfortunately some of this is hard to get to. It’s buried in the “blog” which isn’t user friendly or in the “news media” section, which not all visitors to the site would think to visit to find info about how to care for their tree.
What would you add? What would be a fun way to promote real Christmas trees?
Happy Holidays!
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2 responses to “Finally Feeling a Little Holiday Spirit”
With the rise in popularity of fake trees, and with the increasingly fast-paced life Americans are leading (less mess, no need to worry about tying the tree onto the top of the car, etc), the PR/marketing people at the Christmas Tree Association (or whatever it’s called) have their work cut out for them!
I remember that when I was about 10, my mom bought a “fake” Christmas tree to place in the living room. Actually, we do not have this holiday in Taiwan, so Christmas is a kind of “import” holiday for Taiwan. This holiday for me was just a day that I could dress the tree up and makes it be shining at my childhood memory.
I found there is an interesting section call “The real tree VS the fake tree.” It compares the different between the real and fake Christmas tree. It even shows photos before and after of burning real and fake trees, and compare the result that demonstrate the real is better than the fake. The environmental group would support its idea of fake tree will bring the toxins by making them. However, at the same time, how about the cutting real trees and damaging the forest?