PEOPLE spoke with an expert about everything you need to know about buying a real Christmas tree this holiday season Skyler Caruso is a Writer and Reporter of PEOPLE Digital Entertainment. She joined ...

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Sure, real Christmas trees will make your house smell nice, but there are a lot of benefits to using a faux tree for the holidays. With an artificial tree, you don’t have to worry about sticky sap or ...

There are many perks to using artificial Christmas trees during the holidays. They are a one-time investment, can be easy to assemble, are available in different colors and don’t need to be watered.

Curtis VanderSchaaf is an assistant professor of forestry at Mississippi State University. Every year, Americans buy somewhere between 35 million and 50 million Christmas trees, and many more pull an ...