DIY-X-Mas Tree

Like everybody else, I was totally caught up by the festivities surrounding the yuletide. While all my friends were enjoying their leftover CLs with their families out in Peaks of Mahabaleshwar or Lonavla, here I was !! getting nowhere even remotely close to a weekend plan..

So I dragged my only immediate albeit old, company I had in my sight...My dad.. to the local market to get him into buying a miniature(a.k.a fake) X-mas tree, on which I could spend time decorating and somehow kill time (surely I was being influenced by the Santa-Excesses on TV these days). I carried 100 bucks with me because I was operating on a shoe-string budget..Moreover my shoes were broken too, so I had to save for a new one!

It was then I was pleasantly awakened by something...This cute looking, self standing, moderately decorated, 12 inch X-mas tree which I fell for, was on sale only for 10 bucks..I confirmed and reconfirmed the price with the hawker...He gave me the same poker face reply"Dus rupaiye,ten rupees" . I bought it with utter disbelief ..and also bought some decorative thinggies to hang on the tree, a miniature salontro.. all for 5 bucks.

I used to ponder...afterall, What value does 10 Rs note carry today??

Now I know, It can definitely make a poor man's Christmas!!!!