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re: Are artificial x-mas tree worth buying?
Posted on 11/13/24 at 6:42 pm to headboard banger
Posted on 11/13/24 at 6:42 pm to headboard banger
I got one in 2020 because of the shortage of trees and haven’t looked back. That year, the guys from North Carolina that I usually bought from had closed up their sales lot before Thanksgiving.
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Posted on 11/13/24 at 6:43 pm to headboard banger
100%. Pre-lit
Posted on 11/13/24 at 6:44 pm to headboard banger
Yes. I was 100% anti fake tree until I bought a pre-lit one from Sam’s 10 years ago. Not a single bulb has burned out in that time. No watering or stringing lights up. Nothing to sweep up. Throw it in the attic until next year…
Posted on 11/13/24 at 6:47 pm to headboard banger
I use to be team real tree and you couldn’t change my mind, I like going to pick one out, the way it made the house smell, using it for a bonfire afterwards. But about 2 years ago a 9’ tree suddenly became between $275-$300. I said screw that and we got an artificial tree.
This post was edited on 11/14/24 at 7:30 am
Posted on 11/13/24 at 6:59 pm to headboard banger
Just wait until after Christmas to pick one up. Day after they drop to half price.
Posted on 11/13/24 at 7:00 pm to headboard banger
You could plant your own.
Posted on 11/13/24 at 7:07 pm to headboard banger
We’re on our 5th year with an artificial tree. Should have done it sooner.
So much easier to just drag it out the closet and decorate.
So much easier to just drag it out the closet and decorate.
Posted on 11/13/24 at 7:13 pm to armsdealer
quote:This is the way. I replaced mine with an LED tree 5 years ago. 10ft tall tree that stores in sections. Plug the base in, and started dropping in the the next section. Built in connections, and the lights immediately come on. Easiest tree ever! My biggest problem, due to it's size, is bringing it all up from storage. Plus I need a ladder for the last two sections.
With modern LED's this is largely not a big issue. At least with the tree we have if one goes the rest still work, not that any have gone out.
Posted on 11/13/24 at 7:20 pm to headboard banger
They have some high end fake trees that look real. We had one and moved from Dallas to Colorado and forgot it in the attic.
This post was edited on 11/13/24 at 7:21 pm
Posted on 11/13/24 at 7:25 pm to Jim Rockford
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Only the aluminum kind.
With the color wheel rotating
Posted on 11/13/24 at 7:26 pm to headboard banger
We got one when the kids got older and they no longer cared about going to get a live one.
Posted on 11/13/24 at 7:27 pm to headboard banger
What convinced me to get an artificial one was burning my natural tree one year. Took it to the woodpile lit a match and 10 seconds later there was an inferno. I said “nope, never again.”
Posted on 11/13/24 at 7:38 pm to headboard banger
There’s nothing like the smell that fills your house from a real tree
Posted on 11/13/24 at 7:40 pm to Mr Roboto
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There’s nothing like the smell that fills your house from a real tree
Candles are cheap
Posted on 11/13/24 at 8:20 pm to DR93Berlin
I’ve tried a couple but it’s never seemed the same. Have any suggestions?
Posted on 11/13/24 at 8:37 pm to headboard banger
Absolutely.
They are so much easier.
And they pay for themselves within a few years.
Get a good one that looks real.
They are so much easier.
And they pay for themselves within a few years.
Get a good one that looks real.
Posted on 11/13/24 at 8:39 pm to headboard banger
Yes
Posted on 11/13/24 at 8:44 pm to Billy Blanks
Switched to a prelit tree a few years back...after nothing but live tress for the last 40 years or so...not having to sweep and vacuum pine needles forever. 5 min set up vs. hours of untangling the lights you just threw into a tote last year...
Posted on 11/13/24 at 8:49 pm to dakarx
The answer is to get a tree from Balsam Hill and get some scentsicles to go inside of it.
Posted on 11/13/24 at 8:52 pm to Locoguan0
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I'm not a fan of the built in lights. Once they break, its trash. Better to be able to just replace strings.
Definitely this. The lights will catch on the attic stairs and get ripped or the connectors will short. It takes my wife and I about 15 minutes to string 5-6 strands of lights around the tree- our tree is so full of ornaments, you don’t even have to hide the strands or anything. I’m done with pre-lit trees.
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