The Best Choice Products 6ft Tree: $60, Unlit, and Honestly Pretty Good
Hi darlings, Wendy here.
Every year somebody in my family texts me a picture of a tree they found for sixty dollars and asks if it’s a scam. It isn’t. It’s this one, or something very close to it, and I’ve had enough people ask that I finally bought it and put it up in my own living room.
Here’s what sixty dollars actually gets you, and what it doesn’t.
What you’re actually buying
A 6ft artificial pine with hinged branches and a metal base. Unlit — that word is doing a lot of work, and we’ll come back to it. Hinged means the branches are already attached and swing down when you set it up, rather than the old style where you poke two hundred individual limbs into a pole while your coffee goes cold.
Assembly is three sections and a stand. Fifteen minutes if you’re slow about it.
Key features
🌲 Classic pine shape — Traditional silhouette that takes any style of decorating you throw at it
🎨 Decorate your way — Unlit, so the lights and the look are entirely your call
🌿 Full appearance — Dense branch tips designed to fill in once you fluff them out
🔧 Easy assembly & fluffing — Hinged construction, three sections, no branch-by-branch build
🏠 High-quality design — Metal stand, PVC needles, packs back down for storage
The thing nobody tells you about an unlit tree
Unlit is why it’s sixty dollars. That’s not a criticism — it’s the whole deal. But it means you are buying a tree, not a Christmas tree, and the difference is about six hundred lights.
The rule of thumb is a hundred lights per foot of tree. On a 6ft tree that’s 600. Most light sets sold as Christmas tree lights are 100 count. So you need six of them, and at ten dollars a set that’s another sixty dollars.
Your sixty dollar tree is a hundred and twenty dollar tree before a single ornament goes on it.
I’m not telling you that to talk you out of it. A pre-lit tree at this size runs a hundred and fifty and up, and when the lights fail in year three — and they do — you throw away the whole tree. With this one you throw away a light set. But go in knowing the number.
Where it’s honest and where it isn’t
Buyers love this tree and say so constantly. The words that come up over and over are beautiful, easy to assemble, easy to take down, and a rich green color that doesn’t read plastic.
Three things get mixed reviews, and they’re worth knowing.
Height. A number of people say it isn’t a true six feet. Measure your ceiling gap before you assume you need the next size up, and if a few inches matters to you, size up.
Fullness. Some say it fluffs out beautifully, others say it isn’t as full as the pictures. Both are true, and the difference is time. This tree needs real fluffing — every branch bent out and up, not just shaken. Give it twenty minutes and it fills in. Skip that and it looks exactly like the disappointed photos.
Durability. Most people report years of use. Some report branches breaking off. At this price it’s a reasonable gamble, but it isn’t an heirloom.
Who it’s for
Somebody decorating a room they haven’t decorated before. A first apartment, a guest room, a second tree for the kids to hang their own ornaments on. Anyone who wants control over the lights instead of accepting whatever the factory installed.
It’s also the right pick if you like changing your look. An unlit tree in a plain green takes farmhouse one year and glam the next, and that’s harder with a tree that’s pre-lit in a color you’re stuck with.
The bottom line
This is a good sixty dollar tree and an honest one. Fluff it properly, budget for six sets of lights, and measure your ceiling first. It won’t outlive you, but it’ll do five or six Christmases without complaint, and for most people that’s exactly the deal they wanted.
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Stay trendy, stay warm.
— Wendy 💛
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