There I was in a state of pre-Christmas wind-down (I have no idea what excuse I have for the rest of the year) and I thought I’d do something festive in a sheet metal stylee. It didn’t take me long to punch the words ‘stanless steel christmas‘ into Google and it didn’t take too long for Google to reciprocate with the following.
Imagine my unbridled giddiness as I eagerly clicked on the above Ebay link to catch a glimpse of a 1940′s Stainless Steel Christmas Tree.
Should I really have been that surprised to find out it was n’owt but a bit of silver tinsel. The bastards.
Don’t get me wrong, it looks as if it’s in splendid condition, but that’s not the point.
Even the bloody box describes it as stainless aluminium (or aluminum as the septics like to call it – lazy, illiterate buffoons).
I would’ve bought it had it been kosher. I’m hardly being a cheapskate by claiming I could do something similar with a few wire coat hangers and a raid of the cut-price christmas section at my local Drugmart.
My Christmas is ruined.
Comments
Clairebell
on 29/11/2009, 6:13 pm
All I want for Christmas is…. a contemporary looking, chrome/metal/unusual looking Christmas tree… And I end up here with someone that is hacked off with a 1950s replica! When are they going to stop making black trees and do something more modern instead…?!
Ken
on 13/6/2009, 3:06 am
I have a 6 foot stainless steel tree that my folks bought around 1950. It’s in excellent condition. Still have the box that it came in. What could I sell it for?
Paul Woodhouse
on 13/6/2009, 1:32 pm
Hi Ken,
You’d probably be best advised to ask round your local antiques stores.
joseph
on 27/9/2008, 12:12 pm
its stainless aluminum you asstard.
Paul Woodhouse
on 21/12/2006, 4:48 pm
I’ve got one side of the family that doesn’t touch a drop and another that can’t get enough of the stuff.
I shall be holding my end up for England and St. George.
Do have a jolly one.
Steve Sawford
on 21/12/2006, 11:25 am
What a pile of poo!
Have a great one mate, even without the stainless tree.
And are you going to maintain the Olde Englishe custom of getting “hammered” over the hols?
Paul Woodhouse
on 21/12/2006, 3:18 am
And never the stain shall meet……
guylin chisholm
on 21/12/2006, 3:05 am
That is quite possibly the most disgusting piece of metal I’ve seen since…today at work. This is obviously a simple Festivus pole gussied up to convert to a Christmas tree. And of course it’s “stainless” because it will never be out of it’s box, thus never shall it stain.