Sue's purchases and travels

The hmm.. tradition in Sweden to steal a tree for Christmas hit the forest-owners hard, and according to the Swedish TV news program “Rapport”, every fifth Christmas tree in Sweden is stolen.
The thefts around Christmas mean a loss of a couple of hundred million SEK (one hundred million SEK is the equivalent of close to $15 million). This according to Esbjörn Wahlberg at Sveaskog (Sweden’s largest forest owner and leading supplier of timber), who has studied the thefts. 

Read this in a couple of English Language Swedish Newspapers...The Local and Nordstjernan.  Seems a little grinch like to steal a tree!  Although...I do admit that the first Christmas in my own apartment, when I was driving home from my parents, I picked up a "free" tree at the Christmas tree stand-it was abandoned with trees piled up waiting to be taken away.  I still remember the  pleasant little evening Ihad over 30 years ago with my own real tree in my first real place! (I didn't have lit candles on mine!)