FOX: Add Christmas trees to the list of items facing shortages and higher prices this year.
Several factors are driving the trend, Newsday reported, including over-the-top sales last year during the first Christmas during the COVID-19 pandemic and supply chain issues this year.
Experts said tree buyers should expect to pay between 10% and 30% more for both live trees and artificial trees this year and also have a smaller selection to choose from.
“Prices have gone up significantly,” John Mohlenhoff, secretary of the hook and ladder company for the Huntington fire department, told the newspaper. “We’ve had to compromise on what types of trees we’re getting, sizes, everything.” more
Just like all the other lumber…
Believe it or not, the recession 12 years ago led to fewer trees planted, and the result is fewer trees available the past couple of years. If you want a tree, plan to get there earlier than normal.
Bugs for dinner and a Charlie Brown tree is good enough for those peasants we haven’t managed to kill off with our injections
Nope, not here. Still $10.00 for one, as it has been for the last 11 years. Of course, you have to go into the forest and cut it yourself, but that is part of the fun!
I guess I’ll just use the same tree that I’ve been using for the last 17 years.
Doesn’t affect me. The tradition in our family is to buy a live 6-7 ft. tall tree that is sometimes, but not necessarily, a “Christmas tree”. Then we plant it on January 1 (early spring in South Florida). We’ve had various evergreens as well as an orange tree (with oranges), multi-trunk date palm, bougainvillea (with purple flowers), and others. Pretty and different. Only mistake was one year the kids picked out a strangler fig that had to be cut down a few years later.
Rake out the garbage inthe white house, We can’t afford nottoo