They say that you should never cry over spilled milk, but can you cry when you accidentally melt your Christmas tree? I guess that this is what I get for putting our Christmas tree up at the beginning of November. However, I couldn’t help it. The temperatures were cold outside, we had a snowstorm, and I was bored. Instead of wasting time, I turned on my heating system, turned on Christmas music, and started putting up decorations. The first thing that I did was put up the tree. However, we had a drafty living room, so I had to install a small space heater in our living room to keep me warm while I did this. The space heater was in the middle of the room, which turned out to be a bad location looking back. This was because when I needed to hang the lights on our ceiling, the space heater got in the way, so I had to move it. However, rather than moving the space heater like a normal person, I decided to kick the space heater behind me out of the way. The space heater hadn’t quite heated up yet, and it didn’t burn my feet. I am not sure how I didn’t notice the smell of it burning the Christmas tree. I didn’t realize that there was a problem until the smoke detector went off. I turned around, and the space heater was shoved up against the tree, and it was melting all of the fake branches off. Now, I have to clean the space heater and buy a new Chrismas tree.