Update 3: Live Christmas Tree Rentals Fill Void
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She doesn&#39;t like the idea of killing trees, and the size of her yard prevents her from getting a potted one. So year after year she strung lights and ornaments on the indoor yucca plant, hanging toy drums and colored orbs from its stiff branches.
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hoAs the holiday season wound down, U.S. residents kept on shopping significantly more than they did in 2006, particularly on the day after Christmas, but they also reported being less satisfied with e-tailers, according to a pair of studies.
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A Mac news site says iPods that display digital photos may be under Christmas trees this year.
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Now that the Thanksgiving feast is over, many people are getting ready to deck the halls and put up their Christmas tree. Some Christmas tree farmers are working even harder to compete with artificial trees.
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By Jayne Matthews, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Feb. 9--EDWARDSVILLE -- A $50 raffle ticket under a Christmas tree soon may have an Edwardsville man raising the roof.
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Shopping for Christmas presents at  the local mall and watching "It's a Wonderful Life" on  television are an integral part of this holiday season for most  Americans. But there is one tradition that seems to be slipping  away: A real tree.
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By Tyrone Richardson, The Baltimore Sun  Dec. 10--The annual tradition at 6428 Deep Calm -- where the Colby family illuminated their corner property in Owen Brown with thousands of Christmas lights and eye-catching decorations -- has ceased.
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As usual, Christmas Eve was dead at the box office and Christmas Day was extremely busy. With Christmas landing on Saturday this year, the box office took another hit adding to the woes of not having a Lord of the Rings film in the mix.
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By Nzong Xiong, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Dec. 9--Many local nurseries are receiving their new bare-root fruit trees from now through the end of January.
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MADISON, Wis. - &#39;Tis the season to buy real trees to decorate the home and Wisconsin Christmas tree farmers hope they can repeat last year&#39;s success.
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As website wobbles too The MasterCard website struggled to cope with Christmas shopping demand that left it unreachable for nearly five hours in the run-up to Christmas. More seriously MasterCard's Maestro system also experienced glitches in the immediate run-up to Xmas. The extent of the problem with the debit card system remains unclear.â¦
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The video is dead. Itâs official, although I imagine the mourning period will go on for several years yet. Dixons, the big UK electrical goods chain, has announced it will sell its existing stock of VCRs and then call it a day.
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Business & money: After a gloomy Christmas, retailers are pessimistic as debt-laden customers face reality
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Question We noticed yesterday that one of the branches on our new little redbud tree had somehow been broken off by strong winds that blew around here this weekend.
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DUNCANNON, Pa. - Residents of this central Pennsylvania community are marking the holidays with a 4-foot potted evergreen tree instead of the 20-foot tree that has been used for the past eight years, because of a feud between the borough council and a local business.
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While many Christmas trees sparkle with tinsel and lights during the holiday season, some reek of fox urine or wear a splatter of pink stain.
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But to Christmas tree farmers like the owners of Butler Tree Farm in Dowagiac and Pinecrest Farms in Galien, it&#39;s much, much more.