I’m Dreaming of White Christmas Trees
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 | Shopping
I own and operate a successful little bed and breakfast on Cape Cod. Business booms through the summer months, as everything does on the Cape, but slows down to a more serene pace in the winter months. We do still get some guests though, and so we go out of our way to decorate the place and make it look especially festive and inviting.
One of the challenges of living on the Cape year-round is the difficulty in finding Christmas Trees. You can buy them easily enough around some of the bigger cities like Hyannis, but the rest of us often find it easier to buy Artificial Christmas Trees instead. Besides, in some of the historic towns like Provincetown, which is pretty much built entirely out of wood, everyone is especially aware of fire hazards so real trees are frowned on by many residents. I don’t have to tell you that finding really good Artificial Christmas Trees can be a challenge. I like shopping just as much as the next guy -maybe even more- but trying to find a premium quality tree has always seemed like an exercise in frustration. Stores seem obsessed with stocking trees that cost a hundred bucks, maybe two hundred tops, and at that price point they just don’t seem able to find a supplier who can provide Artificial Christmas Trees that can actually convince someone that they might be real. I don’t know if you’ve ever been to the Cape before, but trust me, we don’t have a whole lot of choice when it comes to department stores either; you probably have a better selection at one mall in Michigan than we have in all the towns and villages combined. Not that I’m complaining, I’m just pointing out the fact that it makes finding Artificial Christmas Trees a little more challenging for us.
Thank goodness for the Internet. After a depressing drive to Barnstable and back (no Christmas Trees I’d be willing to buy there), I was surfing around and reading about the new methods they’re using to make Artificial Christmas Trees look more realistic (like PE injection molding on needles), when I stumbled across christmastreemarket.com and suddenly had a screen full of some of the best looking Christmas Trees I’d ever seen. Many seemed to be sale priced and there was a huge selection of sizes, shapes, colors and ultra realistic Artificial Christmas Trees that looked like a photograph of an actual tree, even when I checked the close-up photos. I found White Christmas Trees that somehow managed to look like they were actual trees even though they were clearly not. After some clicking around, I bought three. A towering, nine foot tall Douglas Fir, pre-lit with 800 clear lights for the front foyer and two elegant White Christmas Trees for the covered front porch; they were shipped out the next day and delivered to my door.
My Artificial Christmas Trees look fabulous, they were easy to assemble and no maintenance to worry about.
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