going to get the tree this weekend. We get a real one every year and I love it. Never had that until I met dh. We don't have any problems with needles dropping because we get some sort of "fir" tree. I really like the frasier fir. One year it was too snowy to get out in the tree farm
(I'm disabled)so we cheated and got it from home depot. it was up over a month and had no problems. It was 7ft for $35. not bad!