Went Artificial after years of Live trees. Love it.
The tradition w/family of cutting live tree, hauling, watering, tree eventually drying, needles falling, picking/sweeping them up, hauling out to trash combined with the frustration of starting the Christmas season with paying out the wasso(?) for a live tree ...
HAS NOW BECOME A TRADITION OF the family picking an evening, sorting the Artificial tree limbs, putting it together and decoration w/bulbs, etc.
MUCH more fun and enjoyable.
The yearly price increases are what really got to me for a live one.
**SIDE NOTE: Heard on some entertainment show a month ago that in Europe the FASHIONABLE trees are now BLACK??? Kinda like when it was fashionable to hang them upside down?
