Argos is selling an alternative Christmas tree with customers asking ‘just why?’

The Christmas histrion is simply a festive contented that dates backmost much than 200 years successful the UK.

It’s a classic, an icon, and 1 that needs nary alteration. Right?

Well, not according to Argos, who are offering up a antithetic enactment for 2024. Enter, the Umbrella Tree.

For the somewhat startling terms of £157.50 (currently reduced from £175) you tin prime up the 8ft Umbrella Tree, described arsenic a ‘special style’ and a ‘different enactment to the accepted shape.’

The unsocial plan by Premier Decorations is meant to beryllium decorated from the top, with the decorations hanging down.

There are nary layers of fir branches here, instead, the ‘tree’ is concentrated precocious up (as per an umbrella) with a benignant of fake-needle covered rod fixed into a basal connected the floor.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, shoppers person been baffled by the antithetic creation.

The ‘questions and answers’ conception of the merchandise leafage – usually wherever customers inquire queries related to a circumstantial point – reveals overmuch confusion.

‘Where is the remainder of it? You are joking, right?’ asked 1 confused person. While different simply asked: ‘Just why?’

Others were stunned by the terms tag asking: ‘Why does it outgo truthful much?’

But not everyone seemed to beryllium wholly against the Umbrella Tree, with 1 asking for styling tips: ‘Can a representation beryllium added showing however this would beryllium decorated please?’

It’s besides not the lone alternate histrion offered by Premier Decorations connected the Argos website.

There’s besides the 7ft Standing Upside Down Christmas Tree which is, you guessed, your accepted histrion but turned connected its head, besides costing £157.50.

There’s besides a 6ft Crescent Moon shaped histrion and Argos besides merchantability a Grinch-esque 6ft Curved Top Slim Christmas Tree.

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