Wtf Upside Down Trees?

[Dangerous Bob]

OK, so wandering around John Lewis in Southampton.
Loads of christmas decorations as you'd expect. but then I came across a display of upside trees.
I mean, come on. I can live with false trees, have a decent one ourselves at home, I can even accept black silver and ready lit ones. Even the optical fibre ones are mesmerizing.
But upside down?

I reckon the 'Trees R Us' accidently made a few where they put the stand on the wrong way round and instead of binning them tried to flog them off.
Now the fashion muppets are all crooning over them.
But I just dont get the point. They look wrong, topheavy, difficult to decorate as gravity is working against you and you're in constant danger of poking an eye out on the 'upper' branches.

If anyone can enlighten me as to why they are better, then please do.

[Rasputin]

A quick google

<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->An upside-down Christmas tree! Who has ever heard of anything so ridiculous?

Well, you may be surprised to hear that an upside-down Christmas tree is one of the hottest fads of the season. But it's actually not so new!

Hanging fir trees upside down goes back to the Middle Ages, when Europeans did it to represent the Trinity. But now, Christmas trees are shaped with the tip pointing to heaven, and some think an upside-down Christmas tree is disrespectful or sacrilegious.

The trees were recently introduced to retailers for in-store displays, so more ornaments could be displayed at eye level to the buying public. And they left more floor space to hold extra stock of decorations. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

[Slatz]

You can pile more presents underneath the tree.