re: Are artificial x-mas tree worth buying?

Year 7 on my Costco tree goes up in a couple weeks.


When I replace it, I may go Balsam Hill for a Flip tree but think they’re pricey for what they are.



I will only buy prelit. Would not be hard to add lights (in particularly ws2811 pixels run by a WLED controller) after.

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Pre-lit, 5 minutes to put up, heck yeah.

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all this and I got the 9 foot. Easy peasy for the last four years

It's Christmas tree a-hole, Trump is back.

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Going on 8 years, it was expensive but it looks great and 8 trees would have been way more.

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What did you get?

They are worth buying if you actually spend some money on them and don’t try to go cheap. This will be our 3rd year with one, and the kids love it. We aren’t trying to rush out the weekend after Thanksgiving to find one so we can start decorating.

We will still visit one of the tree farms for Christmas pics so we can still have the fun that came with picking a tree, I just don’t have to strap it to the hood and watch it bounce as we drive the causeway.

We got a balsam hill unlit tree last year.

I grew up with a live tree and was adamant about having one. We finally hit the bullet when the live tree was $100 for a 6-7’ Fraser fir. I bought one from balsam hill on sale in January for $300, and it looks fantastic. My concern was the Christmas tree smell, but with a candle lit and the fireplace I can’t tell a difference.

I’m still slightly bummed not having a real tree from the nostaligic standpoint, but the fake tree has FAR exceeded my expectations.

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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.”

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I used to be very anti-fake tree until I saw a few videos of live trees turning entire rooms into instant infernos back when I still had young kids in the house. Made the switch back then but do miss the tradition of going out and getting a tree.

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Only the aluminum kind.

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My dad bought one of these. Looked like our house for a second.

Anyway, he had this spotlight lamp with a revolving colored wheel of red, green, blue and yellow on the floor lighting up the tree in the window.

Dad was pretty pleased with himself.

I love real trees but got tired of mine dying early even after doing everything right, I’ve had my 10 foot artificial tree for three years now so it’s paid itself off now

Yes, way less trouble