Good point. I think I got my fractions wrong there

No couch moving for me this year

You should go with a 1/4 tree…a 3/4 tree will just take up the same amount of room as a regular one

I wonder if you can actually do something like that. Just need to epoxy the cut or something. Or at least remove the back branches altogether. Make wreaths out of them or something.

Last year I went with a friend to get a real tree from federal land that allows cutting for a $5 permit. We got it from a windy part of the forest edge, and about half the trees were bare on one side. That’s where I’m going to go get my tree this year. Of course an easier option is just to buy one and prune the branches off of one side

🤣🤣🤣 we've had ours almost 10 years. Nothing new!!!

Place it against a mirror and get a virtual full tree and double-sized living space!

The suffering Olympics don’t really benefit making real progress towards class consciousness globally they just cause us to have petty arguments with each other.

While access to reasonable housing is not as bad in relative terms as not having safe drinking water both bode ill for the future of humanity as a whole and both need addressed and not swept under the rug. We can be upset/outraged at more than one thing at a time and hold different levels of outrage for each and this is not a conflict of values or hypocrisy it’s just the complex nature of human suffering and reality

Ya I would definitely use that.

Baubles in a tall glass vase or a big platter/bowl. You can pick up a fancy silver bowl for nothing at Goodwill… ours doubles as the Halloween candy dish

Actually this is better than normal tree because we all put trees by the corner back to the wall. It’s just dead space and a total waste anyway.

I wouldn't mind a 1/4 tree that fits nicely into a corner.

Anyone else call that a chanakua bush growing up?

It was nice to have, but we were always out of down day of Christmas on vacation, but totally a nice memory.

Just tell me I’m not the only one

Just take it to Home Depot and ask for a rip cut. /s

Just go in hafsies with your neighbor and cut a real tree in half /s

This is not a new thing at all

It's selling well because the British live in some of the smallest houses in Europe. Developers cram as many houses onto a plot of land as possible.

Regarding the toddlers and cats problem you should try hanging the tree upside down off the ceiling.

Ever before? How far back are you looking?

I get that but it's not like it's a new "wow" breakthrough or anything. That's my point, that goes back to 60's/70's at least.

I have a big ass house and this still seems like a good idea. We’ve always had our tree either near a wall or in a corner where there’s always dead space in back. Only problem is my wife and kids like the real trees.

I live in a pretty normal 2 bed terraced house, it’s not so much that I don’t have enough space it’s that I don’t keep a large area clear for 11 months just to put a tree up for one.

This is disappointing. They're only a hit because it's impossible to find anywhere big enough to put a traditional sized tree

Because it takes up less space...

>/r/funnyandsad people are living in smaller homes than ever before

Eh, sort of sad. In the Netherlands square metres per person has increased over the past decades. But that's because we are living with less and less people per household.

Of course, homes themselves might still have gotten smaller.

Since I’m on Reddit, I try to act like a real redditor and avoid reading the article at all costs.