“The heart-warming image of a family decorating a Christmas tree is a festive classic: stockings hanging above the fireplace as mom and dad arrange the tinsel; faces lighting up as twinkling lights are draped across branches; holiday tunes playing on the radio as cheerful children throw snowballs outside… yeah right.
The point is this cozy cliché is a load of movie malarkey.”
...says the product description for a Christmas Tree Poster” -
“Put simply, Christmas trees are a freakin’ nightmare. It’s a miracle if the lights work, there are needles and smashed balls all over the floor and you can never quite reach the fairy (insert your own joke here). And that’s after you’ve nearly broken your back carrying the thing home. Fortunately you won’t have to suffer any of the above this year thanks to the ingenious Christmas Tree Poster. Depicting a fully decorated tree in all its festive glory, this huge, high quality print is ideal for anyone who can’t be bothered to erect a real tree. Simply unroll it and tack it to the wall. Easy!”
Now let’s go one step further: how can we really avoid Christmas Day, like, at all? As in, December 25th did not exist!
Well, it turns out that an imaginary geopolitical boundary can eat Christmas, just like Grinch. If you take a non-stop plane trip from the US west coast to Australia, leaving on December 24th, you’ll arrive in Sydney on December 26th.
Brilliant!
(there will be about 8 hours of Christmas from midnight until you cross the International Date Line, but that’s about it)

