How many of you have real Christmas trees in your house? I am talking about real deal Christmas trees - the kind that you have to water, that have needles that fall on the floor, make you sneeze and give you raspy throats. How many of you have artificial trees, fake trees, or counterfeit trees? You may be interested to know that this year, about 24.5 million real trees will be sold during this Christmas season and about 10 million fake trees.
Christmas trees are a big business (as you can imagine) in this country. Thirty-six million Christmas trees are produced in this country every year and more than one million acres of land have been planted in Christmas trees. Over 100,000 people work full time in the Christmas tree industry. More than 1 million acres of land in this country are dedic…