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Environmentally friendly recycling ideas: * Placed in the garden or backyard, the Christmas tree will provide winter shelter for small birds. Another good idea is to decorate the tree again. This time hang it with special treats for the birds: Orange slices will attract birds, as will peanut butter spread on tree seed cones; or hang suet balls stuffed with sunflower seeds. If you set your tree outside for the birds, remember to carefully remove all tinsel. Birds will try to eat the shiny stuff and it will make them sick. * A Christmas tree is biodegradable. Its branches and needles make a good mulch in the garden, especially for plants like rhododendrons which like an acidic soil. Many cities and municipalities gather Christmas trees on special collection days and put them through shredders which chop them up into small pieces. The resulting mulch is then used in the summer on the flower beds in city parks. * Fir tree foliage can be stripped from the branches and snipped into small pieces for stuffing into aromatic fir needle pillows for the sofa or bedroom. Some people also use fir foliage in dresser drawers to give clothing and blankets a fragrant aroma. * Large quantities of used trees make effective sand and soil erosion barriers, especially at beaches. * Old Christmas trees stacked together in a forest provide shelter for rabbits and other small animals. * Sunk into fish ponds, Christmas trees make excellent refuge and feeding areas. * Woodworking hobbyists can make a multitude of items from the trunk of a used Christmas tree including buttons, gavels and candleholders. SOURCE: ONTARIO CHRISTMAS TREE ASSOCIATION save by checking out these sites: After searching the internet for deals and coupons we found some places you might want to visit. smartcanucks.ca groupon.com wagjag.com redflagdeals.com frugalshopper.ca bargainmoose.ca wishabi.ca Enjoy!!! 26 The Bulletin | DECEMBER 2010 www.TheBulletinMagazine.com
Top Ten Christmas Record Breakers Christmas is loved by millions of people all over the world. Why not try to break a record while you are baking Christmas cookies or folding paper angels? Here is a list of some amazing Christmas records. 1. Biggest selling Christmas song is Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" The song was written by Sir Bob Geldof, and sold fifty million copies and continues to be a holiday favourite today! 2. The world's largest gift was the Statue of Liberty. The people of France gave it to the U.S. in 1886. It's 151 feet, 1 inch high and weighs 225 tonnes. 3. The most valuable Christmas card was sold at an auction in Devizes, Wiltshire, UK in 2001 for £20,000 (approx. $40.000). The card was originally sent by Sir Henry Cole of Bath to his grandmother in 1843! 4. The largest Christmas angel ornament is over 18 feet (5.57 meters) high and over 8 feet wide at the bottom. It's made out of 2946 beer bottles. The angel was displayed on Alfonso Reyes Avenue, Nuevo Leon, Mexico in January 2000. 5. World's largest working Christmas cracker is 181 foot, 11 inch long and 11 foot, 9 inch high. It was made in Australia. It was pulled at a shopping center in Sydney, Australia on December 16, 1998. 6. With 3,000 Christmas lights, a towering Eucalyptus regnans, 80 meters (262 ft) tall, became the tallestever Christmas tree in the world. This record was set in Tasmania in 1999. Later The Guinness Book of Records has rejected The Wilderness Society's claim for the world's tallest Christmas Tree on the grounds that the tree was a eucalypt and not a spruce. "This is a mean-spirited, pedantic snub," said the Wilderness Society's Tasmanian Campaign Coordinator, Geoff Law. 7. Every year, the citizens of Gävle Sweden build the world's largest christmas goat out of straw. This is their Christmas tradition. Unfortunately for them, almost every year the poor goat gets burned down. Its a 13-metre tall, 7-metre long, 3 tonne goat. 8. Bronner's Christmas Wonderland is a retail store in Frankenmuth, Michigan that bills itself as the "World's Largest Christmas Store". The store has grown to the size of five-and-a-half football fields and is home to over 50,000 gifts. 9. Five-hundred-and-nineteen Christmas carollers have braved the New York cold to sing themselves into the Guinness World Records Book. The group has become the largest carol service, breaking the previous record of 517. The singers gathered on the steps of Manhattan's General Post Office across the street from Madison Square Garden. 10. Forget modern novelists and TV tie-ins, the Bible is the best-selling book every year. The Bible was the first book and is the all-time best selling book with 1 billion copies having been sold. What do you have in December that you don't have in any other month? The letter "D" ! www.TheBulletinMagazine.com DECEMBER 2010 | The Bulletin 27
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