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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We buy precut trees at Lowe’s or Whole Foods. Some years we’ve gotten trees that stayed nice for weeks. Some years we’ve gotten trees that looked fine at the tree lot, but never drank a bit of water (even though they do cut off the base of the trunk at the time of purchase), and they dried out immediately. Most years, the tree is getting dry by Christmas but still looks okay. If you’re making sure the tree stays watered, using strings of lights that aren’t old, and making sure the lights are unplugged when no one is around the tree, the fire risk isn’t that high. When the lights aren’t even plugged in, the tree is not going to spontaneously burst into flames.[/quote]

Endorsing this whole answer. We usually get our tree the weekend after Thanksgiving (so first weekend in December) but the trees usually still look fine by Christmas and only a little crispy by New Years.

The main issue for me is that as the tree dries out, it will drop needles more aggressively, and I start getting tired of needle clean up. Our tree generally comes down on New Years and by then I'm really happy to be done with it. But I don't really worry about the fire hazard -- it's mostly just getting tired of it shedding more and more needles and wanting them out of my house.[/quote]

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