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Where do most people buy a real tree and can you still buy the old style bubble lights somewhere ?

I've found superstore has the best trees, they're beautiful. If for some reason it's not, you can get your money back.  
I have no idea where to get bubble lights though. They sound cool

Bubble lights  
 
https://www.amazon.ca/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_3_12?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=bubble+christmas+tree+lights&sprefix=bubble+chris%2Caps%2C234&crid=255RZR33F8KPS

https://www.walmart.ca/search/bubble%20christmas%20lights

That's what bubble lights are! I remember my parents had some on the tree when I was a kid. Beautiful. ...but I heard they were a fire hazard?

I think the they were considered a fire hazard.  
 
Probably made differently, better, energy efficient now.

Don't jump all over me, I'm just expressing my opinion politely. The real trees that are sold took at least 10 years to grow that beautiful and they are chopped down to sit inside living rooms for 2 weeks out of the year until they get tossed out with the trash. All I'm saying is I'd rather see them living and thriving and growing more beautiful every year as opposed to ending up in a wood chipper for this reason. It just seems such a shame to kill such a beautiful tree when there's so many other alternatives. I've had my beautiful prelit tree for over 10 years now and it looks just as pretty as any real tree.

Been buying trees at Lindenbergs for 40 years. Some traditions can not be broken in our house. Traditions are real important in our family, keeps us close. Sorry but will not apologize for this one.

Always a real tree in our home as well. Not really a waste, as most of these trees are grown for that purpose, and likely wouldn't have been planted otherwise. Try to look at it as bonus oxygen.

Love real trees, we bought ours at Home Depot! Nice selection their!!

they were kinda neat. not sure if they were a fire hazard or not, not any more so than the old style c5's or what ever they were. you always had to make sure they were not touching the needles.  
 
lots of the stores will have trees. Homedepot, CT, by the Dairy queen, green spot maybe.  
 
if you put up a tree early you need a good one, pay extra if you put it up for 2 weeks only, just about any of them will last that long with ample water supply before they loose the needles.  
 
after alwasy having a real tree we went with an artifical a couple years ago, in my opinion was a mistake, but I am not the boss around our house.  
 
as far as the environmental foot print real versus artifical ?? i am no expert but the tree farms are environmentally sound as they plant young trees that take up Carbon Dioxide. when cut they replant. you take the tree to the land fill done and they are chipped up and reused for planting beds, walkways gardens etc.  
 
a fake tree uses plastic that comes from the oil industry and metal that comes from mining. and when your tired of it in 5 or 6 years you land fill it where space is limited and the plastic lives on buried almost forever.  
 
real tree all the way.

We've had great luck with the trees from Superstore past 5 years. Never had a bad one yet.