Christmas Trees in 1/2 the Time

The first time I put up our 7 1/2 foot Christmas tree, it required leather gloves and six hours of my day. And it was fun--five years ago. I've since been much faster at it, but it still takes some time and leather gloves. So this year, because we will be gone with relatives on Christmas Day, I thought about--I actually thought about--NOT putting up a Christmas tree at all. (I know, I'm turning into Scrooge.) It's just very large. Then I thought about buying a smaller tree. But that is just more money. (Maybe I am turning into a Scrooge?) So then it dawned on me, "Why not try putting up the top half of the tree?" As you can tell, that worked out very nicely. Plus, according to my logic, it took about half the time.