Either I'm older than you are or you never watched your parents.you never set up a Christmas trees. Okay, okay, there is another possibility....your Christmas tree looks like a mess before Dec. 25th ever comes and you spend Christmas day vacuuming up a massive amount of needles. LOL
So you don't know why you put a penny and some sugar in the stand other than someone else does it...Why didn't you just say that instead of getting all snarky about it...