My favorite part of the holidays is trimming the tree while listening to our favorite Christmas music! We keep our Christmas stuff in storage at my grandparents house. On Thanksgiving we dig it out, take it home and then the day after Thanksgiving the decorating fun commences!
Well, this year my Mom went to take out our old faithful plastic tree and I could see the look of dread in her eyes. "We went crazy last year trying to get this thing together!", she says. Sitting on the floor looking very confused with two sad branches in her hands I hear her cursing below her breath, "Ugh this thing has got to go." She refused to try to put the thing together. I don't blame her, the letter coordination system was all screwed up and some of the branches had definitely seen their days.
So here we are - Christmas music on - but no tree to trim!
Enter the Internet.
I never thought I would be typing in "Christmas Trees" into a search engine, in my life. But alas here we were trying to find a new plastic tree on a budget at about 6pm on none other than the Saturday after Black Friday aka Retail Weekend of Hell. I did not want to step foot into a store! Especially the dreaded Wal-mart!
After surfing the webz for a couple of minutes we found two options in our budget that were available in stores at you guessed it; Wal- Mart and Big Lots. Target did not have one affordable tree. Tisk Tisk Target.
Lets just take a moment to recognize how RIDICULOUS it is that a plastic freakin tree is upwards of $100!!
So we all pile into the car and head out to explore the Wal-Mart tree options.
Once in the store we spotted the Madison Pre-Lit Tree that was on the website for $40. Equipped with 600 branches and 400 lights we thought this could work when we saw it online. However, when we saw it in the store I was less than impressed.
Lets just say this thing looked like it was naked! So bare and pathetic looking. You could see it's crappy plastic trunk because it had no branches! No, we would not be spending money on this little thing. This does not a Christmas tree make.
So now we are forced to look at the other tree's available; weird overly tall flocked tree, small black tree, really horrible plastic imitation Douglas fir with no lights, Insane smart phone operated tree- $400! $68. $98, $120 etc. Out of our budget for sure.
We didn't find anything we liked. Then we realized that their real tree is only $27! We wanted a real tree anyhow! Screw these lame over-priced plastic imitations!
We ended up walking out of there under $50 with a real Noble Fir and a tree stand. We had to shove the tree through the back of my Mom's Ford Sedan but it made it home!
It is so nice to have a real tree. I understand they are a little messy and could have bugs in them but lets just be honest, the tradition of bringing a tree inside your house is already super strange!
Here is our final product. We like the typical overly cluttered tree. :)
Making spirits bright,
<3 Sab
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