Maybe some of you love your fake Christmas trees but I just don't get it. You have to store those things, they wear out and you have to throw them out, thus they are not environmentally friendly. A real tree is grown on a tree farm, is totally recyclable. A real tree smells fresh, a fake one does not unless you buy some spray in a can and spray nasty asthma inducing stuff on it to make it smell good. A real tree drops tons of needles all over but then a fake tree isn't exactly clean either. That's why you have a vacuum. If your vacuum doesn't pick up tree needles then it's not the fault of the tree but the vacuum. Blame the right culprit.
A fake tree just seems like a big old monstrosity that is supposed to look like the real thing. Why not get the real thing? Are we really so time challenged that putting on a few lights takes way too much time than we have? I'd say it takes on average 10 minutes to put on lights for our Christmas tree give or take a few minutes depending on the size of the tree.
Hey and guess what a tree doesn't have to have coordinating colors!! You don't have to spend a fortune on ornaments. You can actually put just about anything on a tree and it will look spectacular. You don't have to have enough lights to make your power bill climb. You really can have a nice 5 foot tree with only two strings of lights, a couple strings of tinsel, and a bunch of mismatched homemade ornaments. I know because we do every year. We spend only $12 on our real tree. A local charity group sells the tree so the proceeds go to charity. We decorate the tree using LED lights and homemade ornaments mostly. When Christmas is over we put the tree out in the snowbank where a local recycling business picks them up and shreds them. They truly go back to the earth. I'm sure your fake tree won't.
So please tell me what's the deal with so many fake Christmas trees? I'm not just asking for myself but for our environment.
A fake tree just seems like a big old monstrosity that is supposed to look like the real thing. Why not get the real thing? Are we really so time challenged that putting on a few lights takes way too much time than we have? I'd say it takes on average 10 minutes to put on lights for our Christmas tree give or take a few minutes depending on the size of the tree.
Hey and guess what a tree doesn't have to have coordinating colors!! You don't have to spend a fortune on ornaments. You can actually put just about anything on a tree and it will look spectacular. You don't have to have enough lights to make your power bill climb. You really can have a nice 5 foot tree with only two strings of lights, a couple strings of tinsel, and a bunch of mismatched homemade ornaments. I know because we do every year. We spend only $12 on our real tree. A local charity group sells the tree so the proceeds go to charity. We decorate the tree using LED lights and homemade ornaments mostly. When Christmas is over we put the tree out in the snowbank where a local recycling business picks them up and shreds them. They truly go back to the earth. I'm sure your fake tree won't.
So please tell me what's the deal with so many fake Christmas trees? I'm not just asking for myself but for our environment.
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