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The popularity of faux firs is soaring as the look becomes more convincing. But it isn’t necessarily good news for the environment.
Last year Charlene Truong Launer, a social media content creator, bought a real Christmas tree from a seller on a sidewalk in Manhattan.
Ms. Launer, 29, and her husband carried the tree 15 minutes to their apartment in TriBeCa and spent hours setting it up. “I was so excited,” she said.
The next morning, however, it all came crashing down — literally. “Our Christmas tree had toppled over, and all of our ornaments broke,” she said. “I was so devastated.”
They put it back together, but the tree headaches didn’t end there. “The whole time we had the tree the pine needles were all over the ground,” she said. Ms. Launer added that when it was time to toss the tree out, the collection team scattered pine needles everywhere after dragging the tree out of her apartment building.
She vowed never again.
Instead of shopping for a Christmas tree in person this year, she ordered a fake, nine-foot fir from Home Depot. “It arrived in a box, and I popped it open, and it was perfect,” she said. “It even came with lights.”
@charlenetruong_ This is the most beautiful faux Christmas tree ive ever seen 😳 #homedepotchristmastree #fauxchristmastree #christmastree ♬ original sound - Charlene Truong
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