Best place for artificial Christmas trees.....

Liquid_Entity said:
I've tried this, never anything left after Boxing day and no way I go outside on Boxing day after copious food and booze on Xmas Day.
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It's certainly a gamble. I actually by chance was looking right at the end of December and they only had 25% off at that point. On a £300 tree that didn't seem like much of a deal. A couple of weeks later I thought I'd check and see if anything was around and a few they had stuck big discounts on.
 
cheesefest said:
The more top of the range artificial trees are more time consuming to put up as the branches are individually numbered/colour coded. Whereas most trees bought from Argos, The Range etc are in 2-3 pieces. Plus the former take up more space when dismantled.

As an asthmatic I find the smell of real Christmas trees overpowering. Same applies for Christmasy scented candles etc which are pine scented. Also many of the spiced berry fragrance are not good. Though got a few Yankee Candles. Some Christmasy smells I have are Glittering Star and Christmas Morning Punch.

Fortunately, the relatives who had real Christmas trees are no longer around. When visiting friends and they have a real tree, I sit the furthest away from the tree or those who know about my asthma, we sit somewhere else.
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Even newer top of the range trees just come is 3-4 parts. All you have to do now is feathering - I believe it's called.
 
Intrested recommendations too, i've had a christmas tree that "i've"* reused for 20+ years now and its looking a little old in the tooth. Want to get a decent one now that we've got a toddler excited for christmas

*My family used when we were young, that i've inherited and kept using :D
 
On the environmental front, I wonder which is worse actually; obviously a plastic tree is eventually going to become landfill and has a manufacturing footprint, but is a plastic tree that lasts 10+ years worse than acres of land set aside for intense farming of trees (and all the fuel used in their care, transport, etc.) for them to then be burned or left to rot, releasing co2 in the process, for those 10 years?

Obviously the £20 ones from Argos etc. which last a single year should definitely be banned...
 
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