We got our first Christmas tree! He's really big on getting real trees as opposed to fake ones, so we had big plans to go out and chop one down - until we discovered that you have to pay $70+ to do that around here! Yikes! Needless to say, we weren't fans of that. Next we decided to buy a pre-chopped tree from a local open-space organization... but even those were a minimum of $45. Finally, he gave in and we went and picked one up at Lowe's. With a 25% off sale (yay recession?) we got it for only $18. And it's a good looking tree!
The only sad thing about our nice fat tree is that it has only 4 ornaments on it. He insists that it's okay, because then we'll have plenty of space as we get more ornaments over the year, but I think we might need to go buy some cheap balls or something! We did buy a very pretty gold star to put at the top. He had originally found a light-up Santa to top the tree, but I decided it would be sacrilegious to crown our tree with anything but a star or angel!