Real Christmas Trees to Avoid

When it comes to picking out a Christmas Tree, you will need to make very wise decisions. You cannot simply pick out any Christmas Tree that you might find in any old parking lot. You want to make sure that your tree is an appropriate size for the room you are placing the tree in. For example, if you are placing the tree in a room with 20 foot ceilings, you will want a very tall tree. If you have a room that only has 6 foot ceilings, you will need to make sure that your tree doesn't exceed that maximum height.

You also need to take into account that your Christmas Tree will be about one foot higher than it is normally because of the stand. Make sure that you pick a tree which is nice and full with pine needles. You don't want to get the tree home and find that all of the pine needles are falling off of the tree. Before you pack up the tree to take the tree home, they will usually shake out the needles from the pine tree. Make sure that the needles aren't light brown or very really dry because that could cause a fire hazard.

You also want to make sure that the Christmas Tree is not crooked or leaning. If you place the tree in a stand it will eventually fall over. You do not want hundreds of dollars of decorations to crash and break on the floor. I would always suggest placing your Christmas Tree on the carpeting rather than on ceramic tile, just in case the tree happens to fall over. Your cat or child might get something caught up in the tree and knock it over. You would be really surprised to see how many Christmas Trees are knocked over each and every year.

Trees that you will want to avoid are trees that are light brown in color. You also want to avoid trees which are leaning to one side. Avoid trees which look like they have very large bald spots because these spots will only appear to be larger. You will also want to make sure that the trunk on the tree is not a double truck or too large for the stand. If you have a double trunk you cannot place this tree into a regular stand and you will end up with a tree that you cannot use because it will most likely tip over.