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Originally Posted by lincap
Coming from MA we had our share of Christmas Tree Shops and one here in the Villages certainly would be great. When we first moved to MA I thought that the Christmas Tree shop only sold "Christmas" items. Boy, was I surprised when I walked into one for the first time.
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It used to be that way. When my family and I first began our practice of vacationing in wonderful Cape Cod in the early 80's the Christmas Tree Shops were exactly that; Christmas Shops. We made it a regular practice to shop for interesting Christmas fare on our summer vacation. It was a little magical.
Eventually that changed. The first summer my wife and I walked into a CTS and saw it had become a kind of huge discount store of crafts and things, we were appalled. It had only a little section of Christmas notions and we didn't like it.
That changed as they got their feet under them, and by the time they moved to Paramus NJ with a huge store, we became fans. So many bargains.