Nice little price hike just before black Friday so they can be ‘discounted’ to their normal price.
Gotta love that Black Friday “sale”
So you can get a good deal if you are willing to settle for a bottom of the barrel tree and enjoy it for only the week of Christmas? Now that I think about it that actually sounds like a terrible deal.
In Canada, you can pay the government like 10 bucks and go out to a Crownland forest and cut down any Christmas tree up to 3m tall and take it home.
I remember when a tree was $40. I eventually bought a very nice LED pre-lit artificial tree. I thought it would take me years and years to break even but looking at these average prices, I may have already done so.
No needles everywhere, no fire risk, no time spent struggling with lights on Christmas day, just pop it out of the attic and go. It’s great!
However, I do really miss the smell of a christmas tree. I’ve tried the artificial christmas tree smell sticks, but they aggravate my wife’s asthma.
My buddy inherited about 70 acres that was lousy with Douglas Fir trees he needed thinned out and partially cleared for fire prevention and agriculture purposes.
I told him to charge people $50 per tree at Christmas to come cut their own.
He really pissed off the local tree people by upsetting the market and didn’t really get the job done, but it was a hilarious couple of weeks watching people pay him to do what he was going to pay someone else to do.
Who are these people buying them just after christmas? (I’m actually guessing it’s fake trees people are buying at a huge discount for future years, but it’s still humorous to me.)
Depending on where you live; look for a permit to cut down your own tree.
$20 for a permit for up to a 20’ tree if you cut it down yourself.
More fun for the family too.
It’s malpractice not to design this chart so that those spikes are Christmas trees.
Its sad but I had to go artificial. Couldn’t keep paying 160 for a real tree. We’ll just lose all our traditions to capitalism so a few guys can do rockets
My mom used to work with a guy who would literally only buy his trees on Christmas eve so he could get them at the cheapest price since they are almost giving them away at that point. Then, about 15 years ago the lots (small lots, chain stores, etc.) stopped reducing the prices. Buy it day before or weeks before, it was the same price. He just stopped getting a tree since artificial also didn’t go on sale after the holidays.
Not shown is a third chart where the farther to the right you get, the more likely your tree would be featured in the future live action adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas.
I’m sorry, you lot are spending A HUNDRED DOLLARS on something that’s just gonna die and drop needles all over your house, and end up in the gutter in a month-ish?
I mean, you do you, but that seems ridiculous to me.
Feels like it’s wrong to keep prices filled in below the line.
![[OC] Christmas tree prices and quantities sold from November to December 2023](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/qi2agtg74a3e1-1220x1024.png)
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Data source: Square transaction data [https://squareup.com/us/en/press/christmas-tree-trends](https://squareup.com/us/en/press/christmas-tree-trends)
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Nice little price hike just before black Friday so they can be ‘discounted’ to their normal price.
Gotta love that Black Friday “sale”
So you can get a good deal if you are willing to settle for a bottom of the barrel tree and enjoy it for only the week of Christmas? Now that I think about it that actually sounds like a terrible deal.
In Canada, you can pay the government like 10 bucks and go out to a Crownland forest and cut down any Christmas tree up to 3m tall and take it home.
I remember when a tree was $40. I eventually bought a very nice LED pre-lit artificial tree. I thought it would take me years and years to break even but looking at these average prices, I may have already done so.
No needles everywhere, no fire risk, no time spent struggling with lights on Christmas day, just pop it out of the attic and go. It’s great!
However, I do really miss the smell of a christmas tree. I’ve tried the artificial christmas tree smell sticks, but they aggravate my wife’s asthma.
My buddy inherited about 70 acres that was lousy with Douglas Fir trees he needed thinned out and partially cleared for fire prevention and agriculture purposes.
I told him to charge people $50 per tree at Christmas to come cut their own.
He really pissed off the local tree people by upsetting the market and didn’t really get the job done, but it was a hilarious couple of weeks watching people pay him to do what he was going to pay someone else to do.
Who are these people buying them just after christmas? (I’m actually guessing it’s fake trees people are buying at a huge discount for future years, but it’s still humorous to me.)
Depending on where you live; look for a permit to cut down your own tree.
https://www.recreation.gov/tree-permits/
$20 for a permit for up to a 20’ tree if you cut it down yourself.
More fun for the family too.
It’s malpractice not to design this chart so that those spikes are Christmas trees.
Its sad but I had to go artificial. Couldn’t keep paying 160 for a real tree. We’ll just lose all our traditions to capitalism so a few guys can do rockets
My mom used to work with a guy who would literally only buy his trees on Christmas eve so he could get them at the cheapest price since they are almost giving them away at that point. Then, about 15 years ago the lots (small lots, chain stores, etc.) stopped reducing the prices. Buy it day before or weeks before, it was the same price. He just stopped getting a tree since artificial also didn’t go on sale after the holidays.
Not shown is a third chart where the farther to the right you get, the more likely your tree would be featured in the future live action adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas.
I’m sorry, you lot are spending A HUNDRED DOLLARS on something that’s just gonna die and drop needles all over your house, and end up in the gutter in a month-ish?
I mean, you do you, but that seems ridiculous to me.
Feels like it’s wrong to keep prices filled in below the line.
There’s no “volume” there.
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