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This Tree Will Steal Your Soul
For the love of all that is good and holy at Christmas time, do not buy this tree.
If you enjoy decorating and all things Christmas, you will be on the edge of a Christmas Horror Movie by the time you get this thing up and looking decent... Let alone if you have no patience for decorating.
The tree arrived well packed. I opened it outside because I've had a flocked tree before and it's typical to have some mess. This was a little more than typical. It's like it never stopped snowing. But that's probably due to the flaw in the spraying. Whoever sprayed this did not do a good job. There were gaps. The worst part about the spray was that it appears most of it was sprayed upside down because all of the snow was on the bottom side of the branches. I had to take a wire tool and literally turn the branches upside down to get the green sides on the bottom. And I had to do that on most every branch I touched at least to one but most often to several they were also sprayed together so they had to be pulled apart and that left no spray in the middle.
I have fought with this things for 3 hours. That's not including the clean up. This spawn of Satan is made of the things that come from the dark place which grows Scrooge's and Grinches and the Shinings.
Setting this up without pulling it out of the house and setting it on fire in the back yard while screaming curse words with your children crying in the background is the biggest challenge. You are looking at them trying to explain why they they can't help you put this piece of trash together, on the outside being calm and composed while on the inside wishing they were a year older so you could tell them Santa isn't real, go out for a snack down at the 7-11 never to be heard from again.
This tree... This one... Is what makes snow white padded rooms seem more appealing than being out here dealing with this crap every single crappy year. And I love Christmas. Imagine what kind of rampage this will send someone who doesn't love it in to?
I had to buy the canned snow to fill in the bare areas and this was after twisting branches upside down to expose the white areas. Fortunately, this piece if f-ery arrived just shy of getting any black Friday or cyber Monday deals on Christmas trees so here I had to ask myself after giving away a perfectly good tree after I ordered this, which I could have dyi flocked.myself and saved the time, money and sanity, did I have time to return and get another tree or did I want to salvage this the best I could? In hindsight, I would have just went and bought a real one and sent this back but I was already over an hour in before the notion hit me.
Please save yourselves and all the people in your neighborhood that you might wish to kill in their sleep after putting this thing together and go to hobby lobby or Walmart and buy something you can see first hand.
I hate to even share these pics because it would not have looked this way without blood, sweat, tears, brain cells, more money spent and the part of my soul it took to get it to look this way. I did however get a pic of part of the bare area before spraying it I will include.
But I just had to have it.
Please search elsewhere.
December 2019 · Home and Kitchen · verified purchase