At work earlier this year I was asked to bring in one of my many plants into the office. This was right after we moved in October, so I had all my plants in the car for the move, so I opted to leave the plant in the car overnight so that I wouldn’t forget to take it into work the next day. Unfortunately for me that night happened to be the first frost of the year and it got my plant. When I hopped into the car on Monday morning the plant looked fine as I looked back in my rearview mirror. As I drove I could see the leaves starting to wilt. By the time I got to work pretty much all the leaves were pointing towards the ground and it was in sad shape. Still I took in into the office and tried for a couple of weeks to resuscitate the plant until I eventually had to concede defeat. At this point we decided instead of throwing the plant out that we would keep it around and decorate it for Christmas, since it wasn’t too far away. All that was left was 2 sticks in a pot, so we just decorated with stuff on our desks.

So there’s an iPod cover, Disco Stu’s mirrorball septre, a tum and a black licorice. I then went to Wal-Mart and picked up some cheap wire Christmas garland and started stringing it between the branches, which then gave us some more area with which to hang decorations. We started hanging some more stuff from around the office, which given our office meant lots of condiments and peanut butter packs.

After having the tree initially setup beside my desk we decided to move it out into the main lobby area and make a nice display of it. Mike wrapped up some computer boxes to look like presents and we got some items from a dollar store. Now you might ask about the Maple Leafs towel. Now this wasn’t my idea, but I agreed to it when I was told it just added to the Charlie Brown style pathetic-ness of the tree display.

Here you can see a few more of the beautiful ornaments on the tree. Almost brings a tear to the eye, especially the carpet lint that we added as a garland. Below you can see the finished display. It seemed only fitting that we should top off our tree with an empty sampler bottle of Drambuie to act as a star.