Christmas Tree Tips

It’s that time of year again, you know putting up a Christmas tree.  Did we hear a groan?  Maybe this can help with the choosing of your tree.

Measure the door and the wall where the tree will go.  It makes sense that if you have a 6 foot ceiling, a 7 foot tree won’t fit.  Same principle with the width of your door, if your door is only 5 feet wide, keep the tree a little thinner.  I know this sounds logical, but you wouldn’t believe how many times I’ve heard people say in the store “oh it will fit.” Only to have them come back with the brute, and I get the tree for 25% off.

Decide if you want a real live tree or an artificial tree.  A live tree is nice, has a great smell to it, brings the outdoors into your indoors and neighbors will praise you for the natural way you are celebrating Christmas.  However, live trees need to be watered daily and though they still get watered they drop needles like nobody’s business and, bugs sometimes live in these things and come out by the droves because the dead tree is not given them the nourishment they need.

Choose an artificial tree.  Now these artificial trees though they may be a bit more expensive than a live cut tree, the expense is a onetime deal  as you can use it over and over again each year.  The down side of the artificial tree is that you have to put it together which can take days, or a divorce whichever comes first, and when Christmas is over you have to fold the thing back up and for some reason the box has shrunk.

In the old days, ancient days actually, people used table trees no more than 2 feet tall and placed them on a table for each person of the household.  These trees were of course live cut trees, because the women’s movement of the 70”s hadn’t come around yet.  So what’s great today is that you can go to a craft or hobby store and get these little trees and there’s no hassle.