Us too. Totally worth the $$, and especially getting a good one.

But the GOAT is a legand my wife tells me about, from her chidhood. A friend of her mother's was an elderly widow, a German immigrant. She had a parlor with a fireplace which she kept closed up, except for at Christmas. Then she'd open it up; it stayed perpetually decorated for the holiday, tree and all. At the end of the season, she'd put sheets on the furniture and close the room again until the next Christmas.

I always admired Frau Erdle.