Oh Christmas tree...how lovely are your branches

When I think of Christmas trees, I think of big, bold trees that stand proudly in the living room and fill the entire house with a festive Christmassy spirit. And there's the other kind. The kind so small and spindly you have to perch them on a box just so they can be seen. The kind you hang everything you can find on to camouflage the fact that you can see the plastic centre because half the fake leaves fell off when you got it out of the box. The kind that you pay $8.99 for and even that feels like a rip off. The kind like this: