by Kirsty O'Lone

Created on: November 18, 2010

Most people in modern society lead very busy lives, especially leading up to the festive season. There is just so much to do in the lead up to Christmas, you have gifts to buy and the Christmas dinner to plan and prepare. Of course as well as all that you have your decorations to find and put up and then there is the tree which will no doubt take some assembling and will likely fall down more than once while you try to decorate it.

One solution that is becoming popular is a pre-lit tree, with these you simply take the tree out of the box and plug it in. there you have it a beautiful tree with almost no effort on your part! But is a pre-lit tree really the best idea for you, sure it saves time but there is something magical about decorating your tree each year.

Of course buying a pre-lit tree saves you plenty of time when it comes to putting the tree up and taking it back down after the holiday season. Decorating a traditional tree can take a significant amount of time, especially if you have a large tree. You have to find all the tree decorations and ornaments, carefully take them out of their boxes to ensure you don’t damage them, and then try to decorate your tree so that it looks good and the ornaments are evenly spaced. After all you do not want to have one side of your tree with lots of decorations on it while the other side looks plain.

Then there are the lights, Christmas tree lights can be a nightmare no matter how carefully you put them away last year they will always be tangled to some extent. You could spend ages simply untangling your lights before you even start to decorate your tree. Almost every time you take your lights out of the box there seems to be at least one bulb that is not working and sure as fate you wont be able to find the spare ones that came with the set when you bought them, sure you can buy spares but you will need to find somewhere that sells the right ones first.

Of course after the festive season is over you need to take your tree back down, this means taking off all those fiddly ornaments and putting them away carefully in their boxes to ensure they are kept in one piece for next year. Then of course you have to take the lights back off the tree doing your best not to tangle them, and they never, ever fit back in the holders they came in so of course you put them in the box without the holder causing them to be tangled again next year.

Having a pre-lit tree takes all these problems away, you can get some really nice

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