The Christmas season is a fun and joyful time for those who enjoy decorating their home. It is important to realize that you do not have to go all out. You can decide to simply decorate a table or to decorate your entire home. Traditional Christmas decorating has been around for centuries and taking some [...]

Before electric Christmas lights were invented, people depended upon candlelight to illuminate their Christmas trees. As you might imagine, the practice of putting lighted candles onto a cut evergreen tree caused more that its share of fires. That hazard began to get a whole lot safer in the year 1882, when the first Christmas tree [...]

In A.D. 336, an early Roman calendar first mentions December 25 as the date of Jesus birth. More than likely, this date was influenced by the year-end pagan festivals that celebrated the harvest. Included in these celebrations were specially prepared meals, decorating homes, giving gifts and singing. As you can see, these pagan traditions gradually [...]

In the year 1970, Cape Cod saw the birth of the very first store of the Christmas Tree Shops. Since that time, this chain of stores has now become a local phenomenon. This store, which offered bargains galore on numerous household products and Christmas decorations, actually took up three different small stores. These were known [...]

Every year the public flocks to Christmas tree shops hoping to find that special decoration for their tree that will become part of a family tradition. While many retailers open separate Christmas tree shops in their stores during the holiday season, there are a few locations that offer year round availability of everything Christmas. Stores [...]