Quote - It hasn't  enough branches and needles,

I love that tree! It brought back a whole lot of wonderful childhood memories for me!

When I was a kid we were really dirt poor and the only trees that my Mom could afford to buy were the scraggly, lopsided ones that no one else wanted. So every year a few days before Christmas we went to the tree lot and looked for a poor pathetic looking tree that no one wanted and quite often they would give it to her for free, or for 50 cents (regular trees were usually about $5.00. A really great tree was $10.00)  Then we got home and let the tree thaw out and decorated so that Santa would know to stop at our house :)

I remember always wanting to have a nicer tree, but today if I ever put up a real tree, it would be a "Charlie Brown" tree in rememberance of my Mom :)

Sometimes you have to look beyond what you see.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi