It's Time for Beer Can Christmas Trees

Perhaps it was the two straight days of decorating the inside and outside of our house coming so close after hosting family for a traditional Thanksgiving meal, but I'm really starting to think that the creators of these Christmas trees have the right idea!

I'm willing to wager that: (a) Men are behind most of these holiday classics; (b) Most of the men who created these trees are in college or they are single, divorced or soon will be; and (c) The vast majority came up with the concepts after consuming the contents of the building materials.

All kidding aside, I cannot get enough of these malty holiday symbols. Remember last year when the Viet Nam Beer Co. used 8,000 Heineken cans to build a uniquely shaped Christmas tree? If pictures are worth a thousand words, then these videos on You Tube must be worth a million:

Here is a Christmas tree built from 1,050 Stubbie Bottles:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp8jIPaX9BM

If you liked that clip, you'll love the Heineken Christmas tree in Hawaii: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccEduayuXh8&NR=1

In order to get into the holiday (or is it the recycling) mood, this year I think I'm going to listen to "Beer Can Christmas Tree" by Michael O’Neill and Jimmy Baldwin while opening presents. After all, who can resist the lyrics:

I don’t need no Douglas fur,
Don’t want no Evergreen,
The “purdiest” tree to me is a beer can Christmas tree,
A beer can Christmas tree...