The Boston Globe, December 5th, 2004
ABINGTON After 28 years, Tricia Ford has finally convinced her husband to scrap a Christmas tradition: a real tree. This year they will buy a fake one. Naturally-grown trees are such a bother to set up, said the nurse from Weymouth, who's also tired of sweeping up dried pine needles. And she's seen a few trees fly off car roofs. "Every year I have to sit there driving slowly so we won't lose it!" Ford said. In the long-running war between fake and real, Ford and an increasing number of other Americans are lining up on the fake side. In 2003 consumers spent $660 million on the new models, large...
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