This year I took the plunge and purchased a real christmas tree rather than a plastic reproduction one. Which is the best christmas tree, a real one or a man-made one? From a purely financial point of view the lovely fake Canadian grey spruce we bought in 1985 was a great buy. It still looked OK at Christmas 2009 and has a lot of festive family memories attached to it. It was starting to look a bit faded though, so we thought we would go for something different this year.
If we had known back then, what we know now about greenhouse gases we would definitely have bought real christmas trees over the years combined with christmas tree delivery to conserve our gas and save the holiday traffic hassles. Also, if you buy a real tree each year, you don’t have to worry about trying to find somewhere to store the tree in between times.