The sound of compromise

I think we are going to break down and buy a fake Christmas tree. I'm usually pretty opposed to the fake tree route, partly because it's fake and partly because you have to store it the rest of the year. However, I'm not sure of buying a real tree down here and whatever they have down here probably won't compare to what is available back in Michigan (especially for freshness). Being a huge grower of trees Michigan has some nice choices. We went to Target to look at trees and a lot of them look really really fake. There was one tree they called cashmere or something on which they had frayed the ends of each 'needle.' It was totally hideous. The other one I hated looked nice except they had glued on glittery goop to the ends of certain branches' needles, the effect was... trashy. I'm trying to look on the bright side, no getting it to stand up in the stupid tree stand (plus we got rid of our tree-stand rather than move it), no needles to vacuum up, possibly pre-lit (possibly not - how the tree looks is more important to me than whether it has lights). I'm thinking we should decide soon before the stores don't have a good selection.