Sheesh, I appreciate I'm talking to the wrong crowd here, but could there ever be a more prudent example of how broken capitalism is as a system?

Trees grown for 10-15 years to be cut down and sold for 1p. Bloody awful, companies should be fined for this sort of behaviour. Financial profits at the expense of all else in its path. All for a bigger number on a sheet somewhere.

Any discount codes?

I went to B&Q today and bought a 1p Christmas tree. The assistant asked me, "Will you be putting that up yourself?"

I replied, "No, you saddo. I'll be putting it up in my living room."

Which will mostly all end up at council tip in garden waste and shredded down for compost...where as all the broken, no longer wanted plastic trees will end up in landfill as they are mixed material and won't be recyclable.

Christmas trees sold by large retail come from sustainable tree farming...more are planted each year than cut down....

If anyone should be fined it's council's that actually collect them with household waste. As long as the trees are responsibly recycled there is no harm in having a real tree

got this on christmas eve at B&Q Paisley for 1p
thanks op

They were £2 last night in Chelmsford. Had quite a few but they were being snapped up. Just a shame the smaller potted trees were not so cheap.

remember these trees do not have roots so you'll need a bucket & soil/bucket decoration. I asked yesterday how much their tree stands were..... £17 ...... gulp!

£1 sorry.not 1p

Just pad £20 for my short range xmas tree. When you live in London these deals sell out before they even make it to 1p. The guy who actually sold me the tree said he bought 500 from B&Q last year and made a killing

4ft tall

Just bought a tree for 1p at B&Q (Beeston,Leeds)..beautiful bargain

Are they available anywhere in leeds?

Sheesh, I appreciate I'm talking to the wrong crowd here, but could there ever be a more prudent example of how broken capitalism is as a system?

Trees grown for 10-15 years to be cut down and sold for 1p. Bloody awful, companies should be fined for this sort of behaviour. Financial profits at the expense of all else in its path. All for a bigger number on a sheet somewhere.

Small ones £1 large £5 in Colchester this morning.

They're £3 in B&Q New Malden this afternoon. Some small ones with roots in pots and a fair number (30 or 40?) bigger ones (5'?) without roots

Priced between £3-£5 in the Peterborough store. Picked up a nice 6' 6" Norway Spruce for my hallway :stuck_out_tongue:

Anyone been into the Slough branch by any chance? I would try to ring them, but previous experience tells me they'll take at least 20 mins to pick up the phone and then be of no help whatsoever when they finally do...

£1.00 for 5 foot low drop in b and q wigston , leicester, tree stands 18 quid though!

All trees £2 at the B&Q in Great Western Retail Park in Glasgow.

Ho Ho nice find op

I don't see your point, if they are sold for 1p the public sector (ie the council) picks up the tab for disposal (when they are taken to recycling centres) rather than B&Q incurring the costs and that's a good thing? For B&Q yes, but not for council tax payers. Unless they are chipped and used to heat buildings as mentioned in another post.

Old Kent Road is selling them for £5 & £10 but no tree stands available

did anyone else actually manage to find one at this price

cold for me...wont fit in my Zonda

Not nationwide this is a store discretion

Just got back in the country - so have very little time to get Christmas organised.
Thanks to this thread, i popped down to my local B&Q and got a 6 ft tree for £1.
Not taken it out of the net yet......so fingers crossed it is ok.
The one I got last year (also £1 I think) was absolutely gorgeous.
Probably the best real tree I have ever had....... and some I paid a fortune for

1p at B&Q St. Neots, they had loads at around lunch time today!

I went to B&Q today and bought a 1p Christmas tree. The assistant asked me, "Will you be putting that up yourself?"

I replied, "No, you saddo. I'll be putting it up in my living room."

Just called Witney store only half price - £10 to £40 :disappointed:

Squashed mine In to my Mini.

went to my local B&Q in cricklewood, not a single xmas tree left :disappointed:

Also at Rochdale branch

This depends on store stock and managers discount. Differs in each store.... Ours are still a fiver but we don't have many left so can hold out s bit longer!

Does anybody know how much they are at Homebase now?

Well, if they only sold them with roots they could be donated to a nature project..

Ah, it's not that simple!
Where I live the council chips the wood and then uses it to heat its public buildings such as schools. Cheaper than buying in the pelletised wood and much more green!

£5 in my local B&Q

​Aside from the various chemicals used in growing them (I'm assuming), the nylon netting they use to "package" them and the associated emissions from logging & transport equipment.

It's still far greener (sorry) to have a real tree than a fake one on a single year basis but bear in mind most people will have an artificial tree for years if not decades.

Personally I'm more offended by cheap nasty electronics being churned out that doesn't work well/properly (really cheap tablets for example) where the planets resources are being flushed down the loo on stuff that's terrible.

Not to mention the rapes, decapitations, forced labour etc in places like the Congo to mine rare earth minerals by Warlords & used in smartphones etc.

Also far worse than Christmas trees is the amount of Pumpkins grown, carved then binned when it's a food item & we have people starving & most of an edible food ends up in the bin.

Oh also the house of Commons bins so much food every day that tax payers have paid for which could also be feeding homeless londoners

Get in, bought 50 to sell next year on the car boot sale, easy money. Think i will treat myself to a Large doner tonight

Actually, it must be store specific coz we didn't get 'round to getting one last year until Christmas eve... if kids weren't coming round the next day we wouldn't even have bothered at that point. Anyway, good ol B&Q had them, but for £1 not 1p... but hey, who can complain about that. I'm happy to pay a fiver as it goes.

I like my granny use to say, its only a bargain if you wanted It :smiley: as she loaded up her trolley with 50 tins of reduced dented dog food, shame she never had a dog, bless her :smiley:

Called up my local B&Q this morning; they're a fiver now. Thought that was good but, for that price, you could get five hundred!! Clearly, they're out to rip me off!!!

So the council picks up the disposal cost, rather than the retailer.

B&Q should be paying the customer to take them away!

its up to the store itself to say what price they are.

Fantastic deal.

Will there be any left by Wednesday though, or will they be BOGOF? :smiley:

Oh how I wish I looked over 60.

Perhaps I'll get the wife to get a card.........................she'd probably pass. :smile:

Any discount codes?

TCB/Quidco? :smiley: