Yes, You Can Buy Real Christmas Trees (and Santa Outfits) on Taobao

Not sure where to get your Christmas trees? No forests near your apartment buliding? You can get your real (and living) Christmas tree on Taobao.

After Reddit user redditsavedmyagain posted this slightly decrepit but otherwise festive picture of their newly-bought Taobao tree, we discovered these two Taobao sellers: one and two. Prices range from RMB 0.25 to RMB 360. God knows what type of Christmas tree you'd get for a quarter of a kuai, probably just half a needle? Or something like the tree in the photo below but withered and dead upon arrival.

The bigger trees look decent and are likely to come from greener pastures than Beijing. JD.com even sells tree skirts if you'd rather the floor doesn't get covered in pile needles, and plenty of baubles to satisfy all of your Christmas dreams. 

Alternatively, you could be both warm and full of Christmas joy for only RMB 22.20 in a Santa outfit set that includes a hat, a beard, a jacket, a belt, trousers, and a present bag, embroidered with a picture of yourself wearing Santa's suit. Meta. RMB 255 (in the same listing) will get you a more intense and furrier outfit, it all just depends on your dedication to the cause.

Women's outfits go for RMB 53, but they don't look like they will keep you warm enough, unless you're planning on spending Christmas in South Africa, New Zealand or Australia.

Or if you want to take your living room Christmas spirit to a whole new level, you should be getting this reindeer kit (three reindeers and a lit up sled, which can double as a couch, for RMB 1,410) into your house. There are truly no limits to what you can buy via the Chinese Internet.

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Photos: JD, bostonmagazine.com, Taobao