I'm sure someone on this side of the Atlantic is doing this - but if not, maybe someone should!
The deal is, in London, England, one can rent a Christmas tree, one all potted up and ready to go home for the holidays with an adoptive family. Said family will water the tree and return it to the tree lot after the holidays, and then... "We just say it's 'rent, water, return'. After Christmas, return it and we put it back into the irrigation," said Jonathan Mearns, who runs London Christmas Tree Rental.
Mearns, a counter-terrorist police officer in his younger years, started this rent-a-tree deal in 2017, and now has regular repeat customers renting trees he brings down from a tree farm in the Cotswolds.
"It started off as I think what some people would have said was a crazy idea -- but it has grown over the years and more and more people are interested in renting a Christmas tree," he says. "There's big growth, big growth in it. We're not saying we have perfect trees what we say is we have real trees," he added.
No one expects to find the *perfect* tree. They just want to find a tree that's perfect for them...for a while!
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