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For those who celebrate Christmas,Decorate the tree tends to be one of the mostFestive and fun traditions that dear beings share during the holiday season. There is something about the string of the lights, launching the Tinsel and suspend all the ornaments you collected over the years that really fill you with a holiday spirit. But you are already askedWhich led us to this precious tradition We appreciate each year, especially why we specifically cling to ornaments on Christmas trees? Well, wonder either, here's how all this begins.

The practice ofchristmas tree Dates all the way back in Germany in the 16th century,History.com noticed. Meanwhile, those who observed Christmas began to love what is calledparadise trees With apples, a representation of the tree of knowledge and fruit for defended in the Garden of Eden. Then, at the beginning of the seventeenth century, the Germans began the custom of setting up fir decorated with, among others, colored paper roses, according toThe New York Times. And the first accounts of the illuminated candles used as Christmas tree decorations are from France in the 18th century, notes theNational Association of Christmas Trees.

While these apples, the roses and the candles were early iterations of what we would become the Christmas ornaments we cling today, it was only 1847 that the Christmas ornaments made by the man really took off, likeSarah ArcherNotes in his book 2016Midentury Christmas. Fashioned like fruit, once again a tribute to the biblical origins of tradition, the first glass Christmas ornaments have been created byHans Greiner-A descendant of one of the first glass craftsmen of Germany - in Lauscha, Germany. These balls, as they were called, quickly won popularity throughout Europe.

Soon, they headed for England and Windsor Castle. An image of 1848 published in theLondon news illustrated and titled "Christmas tree at Windsor Castle"representedQueen Victoria,Prince AlbertAnd other members of the royal family gathered around a Christmas tree decorated with candles and ornaments. "The mother of Queen Victoria was German"Kathryn Jones, a deputy commissioner of the decorative arts of the Royal Collection, saidBBC News In 2010. "Queen Victoria and Prince Albert brought the tree to Windsor Castle on Christmas Eve, and they would decorate it themselves."

In 1880, a travel vendor by the name ofBernard Wilmsen Fed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania at American Retail TitanF.W. Woolworth'sshop. He tried to sell German glass ornaments to the skeptical businessman. Although Woolworth believed that Americans did not waste their money on such decorations, he bought a single case of 144 wilmsen balls. A lot to her surprise he sold them all in a few hours, according to theWoolworth Museum.

The following year, Woolworth ordered twice the amount of ornaments and those who are sold as quickly. At this point, Tycoon Savvy Retail knew he had a winner on his hands. And the rest, as they say, is history - a very lucrative story. Archer estimates that Woolworth's shops were selling balls of $ 25 million a year in the mid-1890s.

The ornaments continue to be a huge manufacturer of money so far. TheNational Federation of Retail Reports that Americans spent about $ 720 billion on Christmas decorations in 2018. We imagine that Woolworth would be proud.