The Best-Smelling Types of Live Christmas Trees
Photo: Happy Hirtzel (Shutterstock) So, you’ve decided to bring a live tree into your home for a few weeks. How festive! Now, it’s time to determine what type of Christmas…
20 of the Silliest Holiday Movies Ever Made
Dear Santa – Official Trailer Jason Priestley (of 90210 infamy) directs this Lifetime movie about a young woman (Amy Acker) who gets an ultimatum from her ultra-rich parents: get serious…
You Can Get a Super Cheap Christmas Tree From the Government
Photo: sockagphoto (Shutterstock) Cutting down your own Christmas tree is often illegal, but the USDA Forest Service is all for it—so long as you go through the right channels. This…
How to (Legally) Cut Your Own Christmas Tree in a National Forest
Photo: sockagphoto (Shutterstock) If you’re planning on bringing a live evergreen tree into your home to celebrate the holiday season (and haven’t already done so), you may find that the…
The Best Places to Hide Christmas Gifts That You Never Thought Of
Photo: Angelica Corneliussen (Shutterstock) There is a scene in National Lampoons Christmas Vacation that has never sat well with me (yes, just the one). Clark Griswold sneaks up to the…
How to Keep Little Kids From Destroying Your Christmas Tree
Photo: FamVeld (Shutterstock) You’ve made the annal trip to the Christmas tree farm, selected the fullest Fraser fir, (or erected that surprisingly lifelike pre-lit Aspen artificial from Costco), placed each…
How to Keep Your Christmas Tree Alive Throughout the Holidays
Photo: Andrey_Kuzmin (Shutterstock) The air is crisp. It’s getting dark at 4 p.m. The mailbox is stuffed increasingly desperate sales flyers. It must be the holiday season, which means it…
You Should Definitely Make Some Christmas Tree Syrup
Photo: Marco.Warm (Shutterstock) Somewhere in the middle of the pandemic I fell down a rabbit hole, and learned all about tree tapping to make syrup. Yes—amongst us commoners, in neighborhoods…
This Is How You Choose the Perfect Christmas Tree
Photo: TonelsonProductions (Shutterstock) Most people go to the local Christmas tree lot with no idea what they’re looking for. Just embarrassing themselves, going, “Uhhmm, that one looks good, I think?”…
How to Tell Exactly How Many Christmas Lights You Need
Photo: William Warner (Shutterstock) There is an unspoken rule dictating that any Christmas comedy must include a scene where one of the characters gets completely tangled in strings of holiday…