Rocking Around The Plastic Tree
For some families, the search for the right Christmas tree is an annual event.
However, as Statista's Felix Richter reports, for large shares of Americans and Brits though, this search may have ended a long time ago - the perfect tree already sitting safely in the attic or garage, ready for its glorious but fleeting return to the living room.
As new survey data from Statista Consumer Insights shows, it's a different story in Germany.
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There, at the home of the Christmas tree tradition, the practice is still very much alive - 42 percent of adults said they would be putting up a real tree this year, compared to 26 percent in the U.S. and just 20 percent in the United Kingdom.
It's nice to be able to put your tree up when you want to and not have to be concerned about it drying out, pine needles everywhere and a fire hazard on top of that. The real tree smells lovely but in this day and age the artificial ones look very real. So it's a win-win for a "plastic tree."