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> Depending on your point of view it is either genius or a depressing idea…

I’m in the latter camp. This is depressing.

I used to do this with my artificial tree when we didn’t have a ton a space. I only puts enough of the branches on to cover the front when pushed in the corner. Then i hung a green sheet on the wall to keep all the white from showing through. Worked great and couldn’t tell it wasn’t full. Saved a TON of space!

100x better quality of life.

I will live in a pod. I will decorate half a tree. I will have a Merry Christmas happy holiday.

That's exactly what I thought lol. Selling you less for the same price and pretending it's a good thing.

No worries, I didn't realise that they came in other formats.

Not really sad. You dont need a whole ass house for one person.

Wanna know whats sad? The fucking insane diffrence between having clean drink water run out of your pipes and needing to go to a well or a shop to get water.

Be happy you didnt grew up in flint.

That’s interesting, thank you for sharing! Your description makes total sense. I may have to look into that style because it sounds so much more versatile.

Mine, and others I've had, has a central lower half pole with bits/holes for putting the branch clumps in, so there's 4 layers of branches each with their 8 branch clumps which you fluff up, so each layer has spokes of branches so to speak. But you can put as many or as few in as you want, and they don't have to be on their specified layer. I make the bottom of mine oval to fit the gap by just switching this round a bit. The top half is just one big bit that I fluff up.

But it's just a cheap 6 foot (they lie it's nearer 5 foot) Sainsbury's tree.

Hope that's made some kind of sense.

Can you elaborate on what you mean by “don’t put some of the branches in”? Because the fake trees I’ve seen are split into 2 or 3 sections along the trunk. Each section, however, is a full circle. The branches fold into the trunk like an umbrella, and I can’t just fold some of them down— they all are up or they’re all down. Are there artificial trees structured differently than that?

r/hailcorporate

Why was this story a Reddit notification????

Or doing it for environmental reasons. Smaller the better. One of the many reasons I sold my three bed/3 bath suburban hell hole and moved into a condo in the city.

Just don't put some of the branches in on a normal fake tree, so it's 3/4 at the bottom, and once you're half way up, it won't matter that it's a full round again.

Why is this a thing now? Artificial trees used to always come in 2 parts. You had to assemble the top to the bottom. Which was easier to decorate everything but the lights on the top portion.

Yup, I make mine oval at the bottom to fit the gap it needs to fit in, then can round out once it's past the sofa arm.

I live in a reasonably sized house, but there is only like one corner that makes any sense to put a tree with how our living room is set up. The issue is, that corner is pretty small. I would love a 3/4 corner tree. That would fit perfectly!

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It’s neat, but the article makes is sound dystopian.

I hadn’t heard of it so I thought it was cool.

I’ve a fake tree that I build each year. Last year I only made the top half to take up less space. This year I’ll just build the front of the top half. Now I have way too many baubles.

Yes, I live in a room where space is limited, a half tree to hang on the wall (or the back of the door) sounds pretty good!

I just put up my Charlie Brown tree like a normal peasant.

People with fake trees have been doing half and quarters (to fit corners) for decades. This is just a dumb article sensationalizing normal things.

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