The stupidest thing I ever heard of

Upside-down Christmas trees. Actually, if people were taking regular trees and turning them upside-down, that might seem kind of cool, but manufacturing a "tree" that is designed to be upside down is just...dumb. And who knew fake trees were so expensive? Even the ones at Target start at 300 bucks.

According to Sheryl Karas, author of The Solstice Evergreen: The History, Folklore and Origins of the Christmas Tree, upside-down trees were a 12th-century tradition in Central Europe. Which doesn't make it any less stupid, although it's slightly comforting to know that people in the middle ages were just as stupid as we are now, as it bodes well for our future survival.