Every year, I find that putting up the Christmas tree is a constant struggle. The darn thing never stands straight and it takes forever to screw in those little knobs. Of course once you think you finally got it done, you realize that the cheap plastic at the the top of the stand is cracked and that it’s only a matter of time before the whole thing comes crashing down.

Off to Canadian Tire I went, determined to buy the most high-tech contraption that I could find. In the end, this one worked exactly as advertised which is a good thing since it costed me more than the tree did.

I do wonder if the choice of the blonde model on the box was intentional or not.

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