OK, I was out with a friend of mine today and he was pricing some trees. He wants a good sized one, at least 8 feet but could to to 10 foot.
So we went by the tree stand at 50th St and 8th Ave in Manhattan.
Cost for said tree? Somewhere between 2 to 3 hundred dollars, depending on how full they are.
My friend had bought a tree last year and he didn’t seem to blink at this so I guess that is near what he paid last year for a tree.
Personally I have fake tree, and now, I love it more than ever.
So how much does a tree cost in your area? Tell use where (city and state) and what size you got.
About $90 here in Norfolk, Va. for a 7 footer. I about crapped my britches when I moved down here from CT. a saw the price of tress. In CT. you can get a 12ft fat tree for 45 to 50 dollars.
You can get a 7’ Doug Fir for $20 on a lot. Portland has a lot of Christmas tree farms in the area. OK funny story time. When my dad and his wife moved up here from San Bernardino, she had prepaid for a christmas tree from “her favorite christmas tree vendor” before they moved. She also paid to have it shipped from CA to Portland. What the hell? It was the first thing out of many stupid things I saw her do. What’s sad is more than likely the tree grew up in Oregon, was shipped to CA for sale, only for her dumb ass to send it back up here :smack: I’m sure her $400 tree was totally worth it.
The average if you watch where you buy from is $20 for something running up to about 6 feet. There are tree farms that ship them scattered all around here. Wisconsin.
They’re cheap around here, primarily because the Christmas Tree farms are very local. I got a huge tree - at least 11’ tall - for $55 this year. A normal size tree is $25-$40.
When I lived in Colorado, trees were way more expensive. $100-$150 was the norm, for moderate size trees.
We paid $40 for a 7 footer from our local fruit stand. The 7-8 foot ones are $55, and I don’t remember them even having a sign for anything bigger than 8 foot this year. They could probably order you one in, but I imagine the price would shoot up sharply as you get into the specialty sizes. (And yeah, anything bigger than 8 foot is a specialty size, because you can’t really fit anything bigger under a standard 9-ft ceiling.)
Tell your friend to come a bit further up the island. We got a 4 ft tree and a stand to go with it for $40. I think the full size trees were going for like $100 where we picked up our tree.
Long Island NY - 7 footer - $60. Can be had for less since we buy from our church’s fundraiser so there’s some padding there. Also, for some reason, their trees never lose their needles, even after a month.
Our usual grocery store is selling 6 footers for $25 and 7 foot trees for $30. Only caveat - these are grocery store trees. Nothing special, not even really nice, and they are not able to trim off the end, net it for transport or even nail on a cheap stand. I don’t think they even have any string to tie it to the top of your car.
It varies wildly. The lot where we got ours last year was selling 6-7 foot trees for $50-70. I happened to look at Lowes, and got a really nice 6 foot Frasier Fir for $19.99. I like to support local businesses and all, but I just couldn’t go that far for the nice people at the lot.
We went to a cut your own tree farm a couple of miles from our house, and it was $35 for any tree out there. We have 8’ ceilings, so we didn’t get a super-huge tree, but we could have gotten a 15 footer for $35 were we so inclined. Our tree (first in 4 years–no room for christmas trees in our Okinawa apartment).
I never looked in Montreal, since we have an artificial tree because we are rarely actually at our apartment over the holidays.
My parents get a tree from a tree farm. By this time of year, the farm has made all its money by shipping the majority of its trees to the States to sell them for several hundred dollars a piece, so the owner practically gives them away to locals. We drive out there, wander around the property until we find one we like, he chops it down for us, and we take it home. I think he generally asks about 5$ to cover gas for the tractor and sled, but we pay $20.
We went ‘up the hill’ and cut one down from a tree farm; the cost was either $40 or $45 for anything up to 12 feet. Not sure how much the taller ones were.
A Forest Service permit is $5.00 and one can cut their own tree up to 12 feet tall as Gary says. If we cut a tree from a local tree farm, a 6 foot Noble Fir would run about $40.00 to $45.00.
The price difference is one of convenience, and safety. When we’ve gone to a local tree farm, it’s an easy hour or two roaming flat ground among the groves (Doug Fir, Noble Fir, Grand Fir, and various pines). There are lots of people, free hot chocolate, free sleigh rides, free petting zoo, catering to kids and all thumbs types of people.
However, cutting a tree in a National Forest is an all day affair, and then some. One has to daily check the weather, talk with the Rangers ahead of time about the best places to look, road conditions, etc. You pack hot food and hot drinks, extra blankets, etc. Carry chains, spare batteries, real GPS units, cell phones, several hand saws (no chain saws). One might walk several hours until you find just the right tree. Great views, lots of wildlife, practically no one else for miles. An ever-present danger you could fall, get hurt, never to be seen again.
