| Christmas is stressful. It doesn't seem to matter how | | | | vacuuming cleaning the pines you will get less careful |
| much you are or aren't doing towards the Christmas | | | | and more of your children's toys will end up in the |
| festivities, stress seems to be everywhere. | | | | vacuum cleaner bag! |
| Deciding to have a Christmas tree is the tip of the | | | | If you are thinking about the environment, you may |
| Christmas tree iceberg. Should you go artificial or real? | | | | want to look for a local farm where the trees are |
| Well, artificial means that you can take it out year in | | | | grown. In many of these farms you can actually go |
| and year out, but are you saving the world? Is it bad | | | | and choose your tree and they will cut it down for |
| to have a real tree and then to dump it after a | | | | you there and then. This means that your tree is |
| couple of weeks? Now there is so much awareness | | | | fresh so the pines should last, it means that the tree |
| about the environment that most Christmas trees | | | | has not been sprayed with chemicals to either |
| come from Christmas tree farms. Here the trees are | | | | preserve the pines or enhance the smell, and it also |
| always replaced, so the woodland is not being lost. | | | | means that it has not been carted around the |
| Also once it is cut most councils have a recycling | | | | country via trucking several trucking depots and |
| facility, so your tree is not just dumped. Hopefully | | | | warehouses before it gets to the outlet where you |
| this means that whether you opt for the real or | | | | purchase it from, so your tree would have a smaller |
| artificial, you will not be doing any harm. | | | | carbon footprint. |
| Let say that you have decided to go real. Now you | | | | So now you have the tree, you just have to |
| have to work out what sort of tree you are going | | | | decorate it. Obviously if you have chosen your tree |
| to get and where you are going to buy it from. | | | | with care you don't want to hide it in a mist of |
| Some trees will drop their pines more quickly than | | | | chemical artificial snow, you will want to respect it! If |
| others; some trees will smell longer than others. If | | | | you really are interested in natural you can look over |
| you have small children it may be best to choose a | | | | the history of tree decorations and find many which |
| tree which does not drop too much, firstly you don't | | | | are natural and you can even make you own. |
| want to have them eating the pines or getting stuck | | | | Obviously instead of shop bought chocolates you can |
| in their soft toys. The other problem with pine | | | | have homemade biscuit decorations, but there are |
| needles and children is that once the tree is coming | | | | also dried fruits and paper decorations which can be |
| to the end of its time and you have really had it with | | | | just as striking as anything you can buy in the shops. |