Taking Down The Tree

I helped my mom take down our Christmas tree. I'm so glad that I got to, since I haven't been around to put it up for the last few years and it was nice to see all the ornaments one by one again. After we were done I looked around and noticed that there were bits of the tree everywhere. At this point my mom said, "Yes, I am the only person I know who has an artificial tree that sheds." This is because our very ugly, very old plastic Christmas tree is falling apart more each year. Don't get me wrong, I love the thing and as far as I can remember we have always had it. My parents got it before I was born, or at least when I was very young. It was free, because it was broken even then.