My family hasn’t bothered with a tree for over a decade. Neither plastic nor real.
Lights and gifts work just fine without an ornamental plant in the house.
Plus Hans Christian Andersens christmas tree story traumatized me as a kid, so I never really warmed up to the idea. (The real original version, where an anthropomorphised fir slowly withers and dies when removed from the forest, and eventually is turned into firewood.)
My family hasn’t bothered with a tree for over a decade. Neither plastic nor real.
Lights and gifts work just fine without an ornamental plant in the house.
Plus Hans Christian Andersens christmas tree story traumatized me as a kid, so I never really warmed up to the idea. (The real original version, where an anthropomorphised fir slowly withers and dies when removed from the forest, and eventually is turned into firewood.)
Christmas trees are best in the woods. No lights, no tinsel, no top. Big, old, bare tree.