How to decorate a ghetto Christmas tree

There are three elements to creating a ghetto Christmas tree:

Laziness, stingy-ness with a dash of creativity.

Step 1. Be too lazy to buy a real tree and too stingy to buy a full-size tree. Heck, be too cheap to buy a tree, period. Just pick up a branch from your back alley. I stole mine from my mother and it was even missing one of the stand legs.

Step 2. Be too cheap to buy real decorations. I have two ornaments on my tree that are actual, real ornaments. Everything else is just made up. Don't have garland or lights? That's okay. Do you have long, necklaces? Those will do. Don't have a Christmas star? Do you have yellow construction paper? That'll work.

Voila! A Ghetto Christmas Tree!

This is my tree. I wish I had a proper camera that worked (hint, hint, Santa) so you could see it in its full, ghetto glory. But alas, this will have to do. Is that a candy necklace you spy? It certainly is! Who said your decorations couldn't be edible?