15 Problems Only People Who Hate Christmas Will Understand

12. Horrid Looking Fake Plastic Trees

Don't want to deal with the hassles of a real tree? Spend a few hundred dollars on a fake plastic tree which, nine times out of ten, no matter how "lifelike" they're advertised to be, will look just like the crappy hunk of plastic it really is. On the bright side, if your cheap string of electric lights shorts out here, the tree will perhaps melt rather than burn, leaving you with a lovely puddle of toxic goo and a carpet that badly needs to be replaced. Which is better than a house fire, maybe. It's more likely than you think; the tree above looks ready to melt down at any moment. Is that thing nuclear powered?

Or this happens.