While choosing a live tree can be a fun holiday tradition, artificial Christmas trees are so much more practical.
It’s a one-time spend that will last for years — my family has had the same faux tree for upwards of a decade, and it still looks stunning. So, to add a little je ne sa quais to my New York City apartment this year, I opted for this National Tree Company Artificial Christmas Tree from Amazon: It’s so perfect, I don’t even think the Grinch could find fault with it.
National Tree Company Artificial Full Christmas Tree, Green, Dunhill Fir, Includes Stand, 6.5 Feet
Amazon
Standing at a whopping 6.5 feet tall, this artificial Christmas tree towers over most of the sidewalk-sale live trees I’ve passed around the city. It arrived in a compact box in three sections that I easily put together in about 45 minutes. It would have taken less time, but I…
