Good Post topic!
our building has a 'no live tree' policy, so we went out for a drive the other day, stopped in the country and found a windfall birch branch on the side of the road. We brought it home, set it up, and have started to decorate it. Total cost = $0!!!
Personally, I love our 'Charlie Brown' tree. We are Charlie Brown kind of people.
I shake my head at the people who are supposedly living a 'green' lifestyle, recycling their eyeballs out, but support an industry which cuts down a perfectly good, oxygen producing, live tree, so they can stick it in their living room for 2 weeks after which they toss it out on the curb to be turned into landfill.