It won't work this year.
so, i have now begun my mission to convince him of this little beauty... i have been wasting a far amount of time just looking at this, and noticing new things about it.. it's so funny and sweet and shiny and tacky and funny (did i say that it is a bit of fun??)

can you not see every one standing around it, having a glass mug of eggnog (i have never had egg nog, the idea of it kind of repulses me, but i still think i would like it) ladled out from a punch bowl.
i found this last night on ebay, and i would have bid for it ( would have won apparently as no one else bid) but the P and P on it was going to be over 60 big ones!!!
you can see that what you hang on it is as important at the tree itself, this could be a long term investment..
anywyay for now, i will just put the first picture on our computor desktop background....
image no.1 courtsey of Martha Stewart No.2 Ebay