Monday, November 30th 2009, 6:22 pm
By Jennifer Pierce, NEWS 9
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Consumers have been looking to save money any way they can this holiday season and now that has included cutting back on their Christmas trees.
Stores like Home Depot and Lowe's have scaled back on artificial trees because of an increased demand for real trees. The large chain stores are predicting shoppers are trading in the long-term benefit of re-usable fake trees for the short-term savings of a cut tree, and that's good news for those in the Christmas tree business.
Charles Bullock, the owner of Coffee Creek Christmas Tree Farm, said he is happy to see Oklahomans make a return to a holiday tradition.
"Let's face it, you can't replace what we had years ago with the false stuff now," Bullock said.
Bullock said the weekend after Thanksgiving is the start of his busy season.
"The next two weekends will be probably real busy," Bullock said.
And Bullock said business will likely start really booming soon since there are more first time real tree buyers this Christmas.
We threw our tree away last year," said Dorothy Way, a first time live tree buyer. "The beauty of having a real tree is what I'm looking for."
Dorothy said she is not only making a change but making memories with her 4-year-old son.
"Having an experience rather than pulling a tree out of the attic every year, I though it would be something really neat," Way said.
Bullock said he has also seen more people buy two or three trees at a time this year.
Cut trees will cost consumers anywhere from $10 to $100, while the fake ones run anywhere from $80 to over $250.
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