Christmas, in lots of households, is a vacation of custom. Dinners and breakfasts are the identical every year. The identical songs and movies are loved. And the tree is at all times usually the identical. U.Ok. retailer Argos, although, is providing another for individuals who wish to shake the vacations up—and it’s positively turning heads.
The chain’s Umbrella Tree is an eight-foot Tannenbaum that foregoes the normal triangle form and as an alternative seems extra like a Festivus pole with a spruce tip toupee.
The vast majority of the middle help pole is basically empty, apart from just a few pretend needles operating to the anchor. On the high is a cover of types, with a heavy focus of over 800 tree ideas. That enables house owners to embellish the tree with hanging ornaments.
The tree is at the moment promoting for £157.50, which is about $200 in U.S. {dollars}.
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The distinctive look of the tree has, unsurprisingly, introduced out the humorous individuals on the Web, which has meant Argos has needed to objective preserve the questions on the product’s web page. Among the many now-removed questions individuals requested had been “Where is the rest of it? You are joking, right?” and “Just why?”
The tree is made by an organization referred to as Premier Decorations, which has a novel view on what a Christmas tree needs to be. Whereas there are any variety of synthetic tree producers who lean into the normal form, this firm chooses to go the opposite manner.
Different Premier Decorations choices embrace a 7-foot Upside Down Christmas Tree (which is precisely what you’d anticipate) and a 6-foot tall tree that’s within the form of a Crescent Moon.
