It’s time to buy a Christmas tree, but which one to choose, and at what price?
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The tree is the essential Christmas decoration, but you don’t want to break the bank. Advice from Fanny Guinochet.
franceinfo: what are the tips for finding one that is not too expensive?
Fanny Guinochet: In general, they are the cheapest in supermarkets, Carrefour, Auchan; they can cut prices by playing on volumes. Franprix, for example, offers 50% off Christmas trees on certain weekends with the loyalty card.
Many brands make commercial offers, such as Intermarché or Lild. For many stores, the Christmas tree is the ‘gondola head’ product, it serves to attract the customer. It can be a good plan to have a standard, classic tree: a 1m40 Normann tree, the average price is between 20 and 30 euros. Be careful, however, it goes away quite quickly.
There is also Ikea, the furniture store, which has for several years been offering a full refund system for the purchase of a tree, in the form of vouchers, valid from December 26 and until March. 2024. This is a very interesting formula provided, again, that you do not want a particular tree.
What about garden centers?
This is also an option that leaves more choice, but it is more expensive. Some also make offers with vouchers. Sometimes, if you bring the old tree back to the store, sometimes when it is in a pot, they replant it, it’s more ecological.
You may also be in an area where you can go directly to the producer. It might be worth it, provided you don’t travel miles, obviously, to find the one closest to you. Look on the website of the French Natural Christmas Tree Association, which brings together more than a hundred producers throughout the country.
Finally, there are online sites, such as Rapidsapin, which can deliver potted fir trees to you. There, you have a choice, between spruces, Normann, Nobilis, etc., but it is more expensive.
Other possibilities?
Yes, we don’t necessarily think about it, but more and more town halls are setting up systems for selling Christmas trees, they order them in groups, for their decoration, but also for their citizens, which allows them to have better prices. .
Finally, remember that a tree is very beautiful, but for it to last as long as possible, we keep it away from the heat source – this is also more prudent! And then, after Christmas, a tree doesn’t just leave itself anywhere on the sidewalk. This is punishable by a fine of 150 euros for illegal dumping of garbage.