Seasonal & Holidays
Real Christmas Trees To Cost More This Year
You're going to have to shell out a few more bucks your Christmas tree this year thanks to a shortage and higher labor costs.
LOS ANGELES, CA — People looking to have a real Christmas tree this season will be paying more as prices continue to go up.
The average cost for a Christmas tree last year was $78. The year before that was $75. This year, prices could creep up to $81. And some tree lot owners said they were having a difficult time finding 10-year-old trees between 8 feet and 10 feet tall because many growers were hesitant to plant Christmas trees during the Great Recession.
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Home Depot also reported an increase in prices, with some of their Christmas trees costing $5 more this year, but they said supply was not a problem.
“We have seen an increase in prices,” Tanya Farmakis, owner of Farmakis Family Farms in San Juan Capistrano, said. “And on opening day, those are the ones that people are lining up at our gates for, believe it or not. And it’s first come, first served.”