We were planning on getting a living tree for Christmas this year, so that we could keep it for a couple of years, and then plant it. But it turns out that the smallest ones we looked at were $50 and then my mom offered us their old tree for FREE it kind of just worked out that we snagged the free tree. Their old tree is an artificial 7.5 foot some kind of coniferous looking beast, which in their place totally works, but in our apartment would loom. Menacingly. So I just set up the top half…
