After several crazy years of trying to get live tress I finally decided to break down and buy an artificial tree last year. It was a hard decision to make having had live trees for 8-9 years (even when I was single). I didn't however relish the hassle of picking the tree out with 2 small children in tow, needles all over the house, trying to get it balanced in the stand. watering daily, cleanup, etc, etc, etc. This year we went to get the box neatly stored after purchasing it (and never opening it). This is what we found. I gasped not remembering how "flat" artificial trees can get. I'll have to "fluff" this thing forever I thought to get it to look right. My despair was quickly replaced though when I saw how easy this thing was going together. 3 parts easily into the stand. We could be done in 10 minutes I thought, not 1 hour like a live tree. Then we realized we should probably connect the prelit lights together. A bit confusing, at first and then it hit.... a strand was burned out. "No problem." said my resourceful husband. It's probably just a bulb. 1 hour later we still were without lights and I was mumbling under my breath how we would have had a real tree up by now. David finally found a wire snapped... probably not fixable. Now mind you with 800 lights you would probably not notice the 50 or so burned out... but I did and I was frustrated. After working on this for 1 1/2 hours we finally went to bed.
The next day I was in a better mood and again ready to handle the fake tree and fluffing required. Over the weekend the ornaments went on and the tree took shape. I came to realize the fluffing is not a bad feature as you can bend limbs as you want to support ornaments and the lights were not as noticeable once ornaments went on. So we have become an artificial family(at least for now). I must admit I like the look of the tree and not having to water everyday.
Fluffing anyone?
Samuel's first look at the tree
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