So, DH and I have this tradition

For the last 20 years I've been using the same live containered tree as the Christmas tree. It's a bushy Norfolk pine with 5 separate trunks growing out of the one root system and I keep it pruned back to just under 6 feet tall. It goes outside in early spring when all risk of hard frost is over and comes back into the house in mid to late autumn before hard frost sets in. So since it is always spending the winter indoors it is perfect as the Christmas tree and those sweeping feathery branches look very nice all decorated.

I can't imagine winter without skating, sledding, and skiing. When we have warm winters with not much snow, I'm miserable. It's snowing now, so gonna have fun this weekend.

I don't like perfectly sheared Christmas trees. They don't look natural somehow.

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That's sort of our new tradition. I don't use the same one every year, but I pick out a nice, not too big to carry, one from the property. We keep it live in a pot, root and all, until after the 1st and then re-transplant it somewhere else. It's usually one that sprouts up near the driveway
and will have to go one day anyway.
When I was little, the Forest Dept. in Florida would let you go out to a section of sand pines that they planted and cut one.
I know the store bought ones are pretty (pretty expensive that is) but there's something about doing it yourself and interacting with nature that is like a "gift exchange" with the earth.