This artificial Christmas tree is adorned with festive trimmings, such as frosted tips, pine cones, and holly berries scattered across 1,398 branch tips. The tree is also pre-lit with 550 incandescent lights, making it the perfect wintery backdrop for all of your Christmas celebrations.

Real Christmas trees are festive, but they can require a lot of daily work and tend to create a mess with shedding needles. That’s why an artificial Christmas tree, which can be set up quickly, reused each year, and looks convincingly real, can be a great alternative.

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With the holidays right around the corner, now is the time to upgrade your old artificial Christmas tree or invest in a new one. Many retailers are offering deep discounts on Christmas trees for Black Friday,

Things I love: holiday music, twinkly lights, ginger cookies, Home Alone marathons, snow flurries (a distant dream since I moved to Florida). Suffice it to say, I fall firmly in the camp of “it’s the most wonderful time of the year”—but there is one thing I could go without.

THE festive season is fast approaching, but nothing marks the start of Christmas like a tree dressed with twinkling lights and ornaments. Real Christmas trees have started popping up at