Important Points about Artificial Christmas Trees:
1. Save money in 2-5 years.
2. Convenience - Setup and take dwon are the same every year.
Transcript
Today we’re talking about how to select the perfect Artificial Christmas Tree for your home.
One of the things that you need to decide is which tree is right for you? Is a fresh tree right? Or is in fact an artificial tree right? Let‘s talk about it.
From the fresh tree perspective, you’d want to stay with the fresh tree if you like the process. If you have a strong family tradition behind, packing everybody up in the car with a hot chocolate, pop corn etcetera and going to a tree farm and everybody picks out a tree and maybe you even saw down the tree yourself, putting it on top of the car and bringing it home.
Lots of families, they’d love that process. It’s a great process. I remember doing that when I was a little kid and I thought it was great.
Next is, if you like the scent and the aura that the fresh tree gives in the house, there’s definitely something to be said to that.
Next is pruning the tree. If you like to buy the tree and prune it in a certain style that you really like but you can’t match on the artificial side then pruning is for you.
And then lastly, there are lots of people they like to take care of the fresh tree. They like to water it, they like to clip some of the ends when they turn a little bit different or turn a little off color.
The fresh tree side, I really believe that a lot of people in spirit, most people in spirit would love to have or prefer to have a fresh tree in their home but for whatever reason they’d make the decision to go for an artificial tree. Now why would they make the decision to switch from a fresh tree to an artificial tree?
First is convenience. After the first year you bought the tree, you like the tree, you built new family tradition around the artificial tree, then moving forward it’s the same process every year. You take the tree down, you can set new family tradition around setting up the artificial tree and going through and decorating it’s always the same process. So you achieve continuity.
Next is cost. Depending on what height, width and what part of the country you live in, the payback for buying an artificial Christmas tree is really an investment. You can really get paid back in as few as 2 Christmas seasons. But in some cases, it may take 4 seasons to recover your money but in my opinion you will always get the pay back by the 5th year.
Next is just what you can do with artificial tree? With artificial tree you can extend your season. And what I mean by the is that you can set the tree up prior to Thanksgiving and then you can keep the tree up until sometime into the New Year which is really becoming popular to have the tree up before Thanksgiving and then taking it down after the New Year you get more use out of it, you get more run into your Christmas.
With that, those are really some of the high level pieces or the high level views one might take to make the decision between staying with using a fresh tree or moving over into an artificial tree.
One more point, if you want to have that scent, you can always go buy a candle or other things that will make your home smell like a fresh tree.
With that, the next piece that we’ll talk about is the lights. What are the different types of lights that we might use for either a real tree or a fresh tree?
