Christmas trees in your area $

[robin]

What are the prices of trees in your area i'm in rural NJ and the farms around the corner are anywhere between $45 and & 65 dollars when i moved here 25 years ago they were $25 would much rather spend that much on some bling for the VALK and enjoy it all year long!!!!
BAAAAAAAAAAAHUMMMMMMMMMMBUGGGGGGGGGGG

[Gavin_Sons]

Between 20 and 45 here in central indiana. Depends on what kind and size you get. I paid 22 for an 8 foot normal old pine tree, nothing special, basic model

[The Anvil]

Downtown Derry, 30 to 60 bucks. 1/2 hour north in Hooksett, BEAUTFUL trees for 25 max.

[Fatboyman05]

Paid 33 for a pre cut one (5.5ft) from Michigan at a tree farm. Almost cut one instead but liked the color of the one we got.

[Bob E.]

We've been going to a local tree farm where the trees are around $30.  They sell Norwegian Firs for $45 I think.  But this year, we cut one down in the back yard for free.  We had some that were planted too close together as saplings and now they are growing into each other.  So we need to thin them out a bit.

[art]

$5 for a permit to go an cut our own about 4 mile from my house in the caskade mtns.

[alph]

we got ours a few years back, paid $100, came with four strans of LED lights (there's something about LED's and me.....) and a whole bunch of orniments.  it was an after christmass sale at the local "BIG BOX" store.   

we bought a real tree once, didn't like watering it all the time, vacuuming up fallen needles, or dealing with the bugs that thawed out once we set it up in the house. this one should last about eight more years and stores nicely in the attic.... (to each his own)

[Michvalk]

We went artificial many years ago. But, trees here in central Michigan start at about $10.00 and go up from there.

[MacDragon]

Paid $36 for mine last week... The wife insists on "real" and puts 500 lights on it.  Smells good. 

[Chrome]

Hey Robin Been a couple of years since we bought a Christmas tree but when we did,they were always live, potted trees that I planted in the side yard the following spring. Got maybe 10 there now. Back then ,they cost about 40 bucks but worth every penny now.
Adrian

[Tim H]

From Wikipedia

The custom of erecting a decorated Christmas tree can be historically traced back at least as far as 15th century Livonia (present-day Estonia and Latvia) and 16th century Northern Germany. According to the first documented uses of a Christmas tree in Estonia, in 1441, 1442, and 1514, the Brotherhood of Blackheads erected a tree for the holidays[clarification needed] in their brotherhood house in Reval (now Tallinn). At the last night of the celebrations leading up to the holidays,[clarification needed] the tree was taken to the Town Hall Square where the members of the brotherhood danced around it.[9] In 1584, the pastor and chronicler Balthasar Russow wrote of an established tradition of setting up a decorated spruce at the market square where the young men “went with a flock of maidens and women, first sang and danced there and then set the tree aflame”.[2] The Christmas tree became widely adopted by the Estonians themselves only in the 19th century.

That sounds like a new tradition that would be fun to start to harken back to the original days of what is known about the Christmas Tree.

We did our first live tree last year and I loved it.  We had artificial growing up because of my Dad's allergies.  $40 for a Fraser Fir.  They're $20-100 depending on size and type.  Scots Pine, Douglas/Fraser Fir are most commonly sold in my area.  Occasionally the awesome looking Noble Fir.  Our summers are too hot for firs to do well so most are sold as cut.  I love Chrome's idea, but we don't have the space.

[grandpaweaver]

My wife is a decorating nut, she has 7 trees in the house and 3 outside so far, always talking about more. If we had live trees it would cost a fortune. But I think they're around $50 here.

[flamingobabe #44]

we went looking and $30 and up.....so we purchased a live tree for $35....it's not to tall...maybe 5'....but in a few years it will be a beauty.....

[0leman]

USFS permit is $5, trip to the woods got get a tree priceless.

[BIG COUNTRY 23321]

They are starting at $35 around the Hampton Roads area of Virginia going as high as $100 for the Bigger Trees. When I lived in New Orleans we always got a live tree about three weeks before Christmas....After Christmas we would take off all the lights and christmas ornaments and put on Purple, Green and Gold Ornaments with Gold Tinsel. It would be our Mardi Gras Tree and we would not throw it away till the day after Mardi Gras. That tree looked so pitiful days up till Mardi Gras but I was out on Bourbon Street Partying so really didnt matter. 

Big Country

[fudgie]

Ditto to what gavinsons said.

[~ Timbrwolf]

. ....being an X jersey boy...I feel your pain...having spent years negotiating the price for a ..dead tree...with the corner lot conivers...that used to sell their wares to unsuspecting Holiday revelers...I had over the years...developed a "system"....Id wait until the very last full week before Christmas ....then Id take a drive over to the lot that had a few trees that I saw from the road..and coveted....stop in...look around....prices were as you say....30 bucks for some ratty half dead throw away that would make Charlie  Brown grimace....to around 60 bucks for the fie looking blue spruce from the Dakotas..(so they said).....pick out the one (usually the 60 dollar one)...and Id haggle a bit...they usually would say something like...well...since its so close to Christmas..."I,ll let you have it"...and we both know thats what they meant...for 5 bucks less. ......Id wait patiently for that moment...smile...and reply...exactly.....5 daze till C Day.....look at all these trees you still have sitting on your lot.....25 bucks is the limit I,ll spend on a....dead tree....no more....they would with out fail *scoff* at my offer and tell me no way....to which I would reply...Okay...thats my offer...but look at it this way....you can put 25 bucks in your pocket right now....and have one less tree on your lot....or you can eat it on the 26th ....at a total loss. .....they usually thought for a second while watching me fish for my car keys in my pocket....and agree......


....last time I tried this trick was on some Grinch on Rt 130 up in Delran....he had an entire lot full of Beautiful trees....but his prices were 60 bucks...up to 100 dollars.....I offered him 25 dollars for one of his "dead trees"....instead of negotiating with me...he abruptly turned....walked across the lot ....stopped...and glared at me....Chili was with me this time....it was the last Christmas that I would spend in good ol jersey.....we got in my Blazer and left to a near by lot where I gave the guy the same spcheel....and drove home with a 25 dollar tree......on the 26th  we were driving by the guys lot who had the 100 dollar trees and he was standing out in his ...still full lot of trees....and I put the window down...slowed up....honked and waved....


....now...when I moved up to Northern Michigan...I figgered...Hell...Im up here in Christmas tree Heaven...they must give ya a free tree for fillin up your gas tank ! ....But to my surprise...they wer right around the same price !....30 to 60 bucks ! ....I was out raged....theiving bastids !....so I was forced to fall back on my ol....I,ll give ya 25 bucks for yer dead tree...or eat it on the 26th....being from New Jersey..I sort of had an unfair advantage....sort of like shooting fish in a barrel...if yanno what I mean.....I was still gettin my trees for 25 bucks...a week before Christmas...but I was dismayed that my fantasy of buying a locally ..fresh cut tree....for minimum investment....was not to be....but two years ago a friend of ours told us of an "old gent"...who lives out in the middle of farm land...surrounded by the woods.....so we rode out there and pulled into his place and were greeted by hos old waddling beagle and had a look around....much to our delight...most of his trees were 25 bucks...a few "expensive ones"...were 30 bucks....so for the next couple of years we went there and greeted the ol gent and his faithful beagle and got our trees for 25 bucks...last year the base of the one we got was so wide it took both Chili and I...her pushing from the outside...me pullin from with in...to finally get it on the house !

...Well.....this year we rode over to our favorite Christmas Tree place...only to find that....he was no longer in business.....we obviously bummed...but...as we passed his neighbors horse farm...we noticed that he now had a sign out for trees...so we turned around and headed up the muddy road to his huge modern horse stables...and introduced ourselves...we told him our story about buying from his neighbor and he told us the old guy was only doing it to help his grand daughter through college...and last year she graduated....so we wandered into his big ol barn and he and his wife had 10 stalls up front with a horse in every one....trees in the back...so ofcourse we had to stop and say hello to all the horses....the first being "Vicky"....the second one was named.."Sticky"...I joked while petting him...asking him how he came to have such a name ?....The wife said that he was the off spring of Vicky...and Steve....so they named him...Sticky....we wanedered around for a bit and picked out a fine 8 foot tree for......20 bucks...the first week of December.....Ohhhhh  Yeeeeaahhhhhh....Chili will tell ya that I just dig getting a "deal" on anything...but I just LOVE getting a deal on a ...Christmas Tree....he even trimmed the end...wrapped it in the machine...and loaded it Chili,s pickup.....we shot the breeze for a while and admired their horse farm and the laid back life it afforded them, before saying our good byes and Merry Christmass,s....before slowly riding back down their muddy road to civilization.....we stopped along the back road so I could pick some kind of branches full of red berries for Chili...so she could make a Christmas Wreath for the house..


..we drove home feeling very much....in the Christmas Spirit..


.....Merry Christmas to you and yours my friend..  

[Hoser]

I got one for free from my brother in law's pasture.  Hoser 

[Bearinthehouse]

Since I live in the Christmas Tree capital of the world.....5 To ten bucks from thr tree fram..

[mhallock]

Hey Robin,

We've been supporting a local grower on Lake Owassa (Rt 521) for many years now. Currently $45 for any tree on the lot. Many nice trees.....large and small.....nice guy.....always chat with him, play with the dog (except she was not around today when we went. Old dog so I didn't ask where she was)

Always enjoy picking the tree and cutting it down. It has become a tradition.

Merry Christmas to you and Judy!!

Mark

[GotValk]

Just Cut ours today, $38.75 for a 7' Fraser Fur.
Merry Christmas!!

[DarkMeister]

Paid $35 for a giant, solid 8-footer+. Last year paid 50 at a different place. I sort of hate the thought of killing young, healthy trees, but the wife wouldn't even consider anything else. Part of me agrees with her, though.
When the kids were younger, there was a place nearby where getting the tree was part of a package - all for twenty bucks! Sleigh-ride to the "killing zone", choose and cut your own, sleigh-ride back, cup of hot chocolate in a barn next to a woodstove. Kids loved it.

[Ice]

We got lucky this year, normally its an all day affair finding a decent tree and not spending $80 on it. This year I was at Home Depot of all places and they had just received a new shippment off the truck, and I picked one up and there it was perfect shape and size, 8' and the price was $29.95, cant beat that with a stick.....

[DIGGER]

Coming back from my deer lease yesterday I passed through Giddings Texas and the Boy Scouts local troop had a Christmas Tree lot going as a fund raiser.    I loved their sign,

SORRY, WE DON'T SELL HOLIDAY TREES.....JUST CHRISTMAS TREES