Get Real: Artificial Trees To Avoid
There has been an increasing trend for years to move away from the hassle of a real Christmas tree in favor of the ease of an artificial tree. They don’t need to be disposed of, don’t drop needles on the floor and can be stored in the attic until needed.
Through the years, there have been many variations and gimmicks used to be the most cutting edge, including pre-lit trees and mimicking the different types of real trees. While many have been a success, some have crashed and burned. Avoid these trees like the plague.
Fresh Pine Scent
There have been trees created which will either have pine-scented needles or a refillable rubber tube that you can fill with pine scent and spray on the tree with the quick push of a small bulb. This is just a terribly bad idea. Your whole house ends up smelling like a cheap cologne or like Pine-Sol exploded in your living room. Odds are you’ll smell more like pine than the actual tree. If you’re looking for a natural pine scent, then buy a natural pine tree.
Fiber Optic Christmas Trees
There was a period in the 1990’s where everything was about fiber optics. They are incredibly useful for the transfer of energy and information, but a unique trait was their ability to allow a light source to travel from one end to the other, nearly unimpeded by resistance. So, you could have a green light at one end of the fiber and the light will shine on the other end with almost the same brightness. Most trees put a bunch of these filaments at the end of the branches so they could twinkle with various colors and create a cavalcade of colors. Too bad it just looks tacky. The lights don’t actually brighten anything, the ends just light up. They’re great in a completely dark room, but at normal brightness, good luck seeing anything.
White Christmas Trees
The invention of artificial Christmas trees meant you could literally have a tree of any color. While many have come and gone, there are still plenty of white trees on the market. I assume the goal is to simulate snowfall on the tree limbs, but to me it just looks like someone bleached out a pine tree. It’s like a tree left over at Chernobyl or Three Mile Island. A tree should not be devoid of chlorophyll, it’s one of those nature things. I know there are some people out there that absolutely love white Christmas trees, but don’t put it in a window overlooking a snowy yard. You might not be able to see it.
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