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Undoubtedly, the most beloved and long-awaited holiday - the New Year - will come very soon. His meeting has long been accompanied by a number of integral attributes, one of which is the Christmas tree. It is impossible to imagine this holiday without her, dressed up and sparkling with garlands, covering gifts with her fluffy branches.
That is why, on the eve of the New Year's celebration, many people often ask the traditional question: which Christmas tree to buy?
Some are very categorical and persistent in this matter. Some consider the appearance of an artificial Christmas tree as an encroachment on the inviolable traditions of New Year's celebrations. Others buy only an artificial Christmas tree, choosing a high-quality option in the Mebel-Mebel store http://mebel-mebel.com.ua/eshop/iskustvennie-elki/, where there are a lot of excellent options, due to the rejection of mass and often barbaric pre-New Year cutting down of living symbols of the holiday and the subsequent contemplation of their pitiful remains near porches and garbage cans. And there are completely non-categorical people who, every time when choosing a Christmas tree, are guided simply by their own mood, or by the conviction that it fits perfectly into the interior of the place of celebration.
What kind of Christmas tree should I give preference to?
Both options - both a live Christmas tree and an artificial one - have advantages and disadvantages.
Advantages of a live Christmas tree.
1. Filling the house with unique freshness and coniferous aroma. They are associated with the magic of New Year's holidays and attract the most positive mood and expectations. If there is no money to buy a live Christmas tree, or if you don't want to cut it down, you can achieve a similar effect by hanging it around the apartment and decorating it with Christmas tree branches.
2. The emergence in adults of an indescribable feeling of returning to the most beautiful time - childhood, because in the old days, artificial Christmas trees were practically not put up.
3. No need for proper further storage for many years.
4. Many useful properties of the smell of needles.
5. Use of funds from the sale of Christmas trees for activities on the protection and proper maintenance of forests.
Disadvantages of a live Christmas tree.
1. Often a poor choice in terms of fluffiness.
2. Difficult transportation and installation, time-consuming maintenance.
3. Abundance of debris in the form of crumbling needles.
4. Short-lived pine aroma.
5. High risk of fire.
6. The need for increased caution when operating in rooms where there are small children and animals.
Advantages of an artificial Christmas tree:
– the widest assortment in terms of color, height, fluffiness, fastening of branches and trunk, presence or absence of LEDs and completeness;
– ease of transportation and installation;
- a long service life, which, undoubtedly, contributes to the economy of the New Year's budget;
– comfortable storage during long inter-holiday periods;
- minimum amount of garbage;
- preserving the life of at least one live Christmas tree for every hour of artificial operation;
- absence of danger of fire when the Christmas tree ignites due to its manufacture from harmless materials;
- possibility of advance purchase.
Disadvantages of an artificial Christmas tree:
- the absence of a coniferous aroma, which, however, can be quite successfully compensated for by placing several spruce branches in different corners of the apartment, or by using the appropriate aromatic oil;
- the high toxicity of such a New Year's symbol, because it is made, as a rule, from polyvinyl chloride, which contains compounds dangerous for humans;
– the need for accuracy in assembly and disassembly and compliance with storage rules, as any damage to parts can lead to the impossibility of further use;
– rather high cost, which, however, is compensated by many years of operation;
- the probability of not feeling the holiday when repeatedly contemplating the same Christmas tree.
It is easy to decide which Christmas tree to give preference to. At the same time, it is important to take into account one's own mood and preferences, adopted in the close environment of tradition, as well as the interior of the room in which the long-awaited and unforgettable meeting of the New Year is planned.
