As Troy mentioned, we bought a fake Christmas tree while in Oregon and saved money on sales tax. It's a 7.5' Douglas Fir tree that came with white lights already on it. It's sort of nice we didn't have to bother trying to put on lights evenly, but I'm not sure what we'll do when I get sick of white lights. The lights are well tied around each branch, so it would be difficult to take them off and probably even harder to get them on. I guess we'd just have to add colored lights on top of the white ones and have both on the tree at the same time, unless we leave the white ones unplugged, but you could probably still see them unlit.

We looked at several places for a nice tree skirt, but they were all so cheaply made, yet fairly expensive, and tacky. We finally bought a cute tree skirt from Macy's on sale. It's white with a red border and has holly on the outside edge too. We bought 6 boxes of ornaments with about 9 ornaments in each box. We got red, green, and frosty white ornaments, some in different shapes, and some with glitter. We also put our ornaments we made last year on the tree, as well as our first Christmas ornament we got from our friend last year. We also tried to find a tree star that would light up, but the one we found didn't fit the tree well at all, so we went back and got a plain silver one that doesn't light up. I think our tree looks pretty nice and it's cool since we finally bought our own Christmas decorations.