Lowe’s Hardware Stores Sell “Family Trees”- Christmas is dead
Ahh, its the time of year Bash gets to use his favorite line: “I got two words for you and they ain’t Merry Fukn Christmas!”
In a further erosion of our American traditions and holidays, Lowe’s Hardware stores has decided that they aren’t in the business of selling Christmas trees anymore. They have decided, instead, that the big seller for 2007 will be the erstwhile “Family Tree” — that Christmas thingie being so gauche and offensive and all, you see. In fact, in their 2007 holiday catalog, Lowes uses the word Christmas a grand total of two times. And on their website, the tree listings all avoid the word “Christmas” in their descriptions.
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Well they’ve already issued and apology. Claiming that the AD came out like that because it failed to be caught during the “peer review” process.. Ehh suuure. Sounds like the hand in the cookie jar excuses i used to used as a kid.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/viewstory.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200711/CUL20071114b.html
November 15th, 2007 at 8:54 amHome Depot here I come!
BTY Wish everyone a Merry Christmas in your day to day encounters
if they are offended you know you hate them anyway! so f*ck ‘em
November 15th, 2007 at 8:54 amlooks like Lowes needs a good boycott right before the holidays..oh and home depot calls them holiday trees. Im getting tired of this shit. People keep this up and we will lose our identity as a nation
November 15th, 2007 at 8:56 amI think I saw somewhere where they have apologized. I actually like Lowe’s. I chalk this up to some liberal sitting in the decision making process. Anyway, Merry Christmas to all and yes, say it to everyone
November 15th, 2007 at 9:12 amDo they sell “Single and childless” Trees?
November 15th, 2007 at 9:20 amF*ck Lowes
November 15th, 2007 at 9:25 amOh, for fuck’s sake…
I can’t beleive that Lowe’s and Home Depot are kowtowing to a bunch of liberal whack jobs. Not only is it disgusting, but you risk pissing off more people who actually celebrate Christmas than those who don’t. Those who don’t won’t buy a damn “family tree” from you anyway, you stupid morons!
November 15th, 2007 at 9:36 amMaybe we should invest into a Christmas Tree’s business, eh guys?
Merry Christmas y’all, and God Bless the USA!
November 15th, 2007 at 9:40 amPerhaps we should let Lowe’s and Hope Depot’s worthless executive management teams know what we think of their business decisions? Their respective stocks aren’t exactly burning up the board either…
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=LOW&t=1y
November 15th, 2007 at 9:42 amhttp://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=HD&t=1y
I don’t get the outrage - someone explain it to me.
November 15th, 2007 at 9:47 amDo they sell “Single and childless” Trees?
They had better, or there will be a lawsuit.
November 15th, 2007 at 9:54 amVenner, I don’t think so….
November 15th, 2007 at 9:54 amVenner, the whole point of the holiday is CHRISTMAS! The trees are for CHRISTMAS! Not “Family Day”…
Merry Christmas, everyone!
November 15th, 2007 at 10:04 amMERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL !!!
November 15th, 2007 at 10:14 amAnd To ALL
FUCK LOWES
The liberal mindset is amazing. They find a Christmas tree offensive but public sex displays are considered freedom of speech in their world.
November 15th, 2007 at 10:19 amFAMILY TREE?!?!?
Does anybody get a tree to put in their house for winter besides people celebrating Christmas!!!??? WTF?
Do they have Family Minoras too?!?!?!? WTF it’s ok to say CHRISTMAS. THOSE BASTARDS, I’LL KILL EM!!! I’LL KILL EM!!! GIVE US CHRISTMAS BACK!!!
November 15th, 2007 at 10:28 am“I don’t get the outrage - someone explain it to me”
November 15th, 2007 at 10:30 amLittle by little, inch by inch the left wing/commies are trying to secularize our great country. They do it oh so subtly, sneaking in shit here and there and hoping the general population won’t notice. This in itself is not outrageous, but when you start to add up all the crap the Christian haters are putting out there, trying to destroy everything this great nation was founded on, you will begin to understand why people are outraged and sick to death of the bullshit.
The only kind of tonic for this bullshit is a good dose of “Fuck Off”!
My youngest daughter is in the MR/DD classroom of her public grade school. Last year there were 6 kids in the class (ages K-4gr.) … The teacher sent home a “Holiday” homework project and art materials during the Thanksgiving break for the kids to assemble. Included were the materials needed to construct the Jewish Menorah, some lanturn thing for the Muslim Eid, and a Kwanzaa candle … NO Nativity, or even a Christmas tree or Santa …
I helped my 6 yr. old daughter put together the Menorah … and then found an old Christmas card (I have a hard time throwing thigs away), had her cut out the Nativity scene and paste it to construction paper and decorate it with glitter. Those are the only completed “holiday” projects sent back to her classroom after Thanksgiving break … I would hope the teacher who is primarily in charge of teaching my daughter the basics of functioning in education got my not so subtle message …
November 15th, 2007 at 10:36 amOh, BTW … ALL the kids in the class celebrated Christmas, as I am the ONLY PTA Room Mother for the classroom and have to check on these things when planning any holiday activities in the classroom …
November 15th, 2007 at 10:38 amwe should of put a stop to this bollocks when they wanted to make tom and jerry non violent
November 15th, 2007 at 10:39 amHa ha fuck that im getting a christmas bush…
and Happy Thanksgiving everybody. because its closer than Christmas 
November 15th, 2007 at 10:58 amThey have the merve to try to make a buck of the birth of Christ yet wont even aknowledge him. What a crock!
November 15th, 2007 at 11:29 amI remember a season or two ago when Lowe’s had banners outside their stores for, “Holiday Trees.”
Apparently, nobody in their business caste got the fucking memo that they’re Christmas trees. It would be like calling a menorah, “that thingie with candles.”
November 15th, 2007 at 11:49 amA Jewish friend of mine once commented about the absence of calling Christmas, “Christmas.” It actually disturbed her. So when someone of another faith begins to notice, that’s a clue.
Heh, the past two summers, I was a loader at Lowe’s. They always try to get me back for Christmas Break, but I’m definitely done with them. This PC BS is totalitarianism in all but name.
November 15th, 2007 at 1:41 pmThey for tree got the ethnic diversity tree, and the same sex tree and the atheist anti-American tree, and the ecologically correct tree (plastic or Real?), That could be confusing!
November 15th, 2007 at 3:26 pmDrillanwr -
Way to go!! After all, most of the bullshit endoctrination starts in elementary school. What you described is a perfect illustration of how secular humanism has been allowed to infiltrate our culture, be it ever so incrementally.
I wonder if the left side of the advert had the word “DYSFUNCTIONAL” on it?
November 15th, 2007 at 4:44 pmAnd what exactly do they mean by “family”? is it the traditional nuclear family? Are they then discriminating against the non traditional families like in Rosie odonnells house hold. I smell a lawsuit!
November 15th, 2007 at 5:13 pmRecon
I looked at the site just to see for myself. Most of the trees say nothing, just lit trees. There is also the pathetic Holiday tree…MLK tree? Presidents day tree? Which Holiday is it again. I did find one on the site that said Christmas on it. But it appears that GE made the tree and included it in the name. I wonder how long til they redact the Christmas.
November 15th, 2007 at 5:31 pmVerm
http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=55986-25734-02728LO&lpage=none
House 6
You have to understand, half these young kids are Down Syndrome (my baby girl included)and the other half might be autistic or developmentally delayed. Do they REALLY have to be confused in the middle of all the fuss of a holiday/Christmas season that is actually going on around them with obscure celebrations that have nothing to do with Christmas? All they know is Santa and the Christmas tree … unless their family is Jewish or of other faiths and the family teaches them at home. Means nothing to them … even in a cultural and historical sense.
But the idea that three different signs of religious celebration came home, EXCEPT the one depicting the Christian faith during the Christmas season really pissed me off … My nose would have been a bit out of joint at the secular Santa or tree, but at least a recognition of “Christmas” would have been something …
Why did I have her complete the Jewish Menorah?
November 15th, 2007 at 6:05 pmBecause as an honest and historical “Christian” I recognize the strong faith of Jesus.
The liberaldon’t shop at hardware stores… they just go there to get their soon to be legal labor. They are too busy picketting and ruining our morals to do thier own home-improvement.
November 15th, 2007 at 7:30 pmI am living in India and they just got done celebrating Diwali, the festival of light/new year. I can’t tell you how many Diwali greetings I got, cards, and even gifts. I am not a Hindu but what the hell…
Whatever happened to being gracious enough to accept good wishes no matter where they came from?
ATTENTION LIBERALS: GROW THE FUCK UP!
November 16th, 2007 at 4:55 amIt doesn’t matter what Lowes and Home Depot call their trees. I personally would never buy a family tree. we celebrate Christmas as the birth of our Lord and Savior. Jesus is the reason for the season! Merry CHRISTmas!!
November 19th, 2007 at 5:59 pmPeople I work for Lowe’s and it is a great company to work for. We were issued a e-mail stating that we were supposed to dispose of the mags or signs that said Holiday of Family tree’s.
Bill is right doesn’t matter what the trees are called…we have Christmas because of one reason….Our Lord and Savior…….we have commercialized the holiday.
Really no need to get huffy puffy about what trees are called. give me a break
November 20th, 2007 at 12:59 pm