'Tis the season for Christmas trees, and why not cut your own and make getting the tree part of the adventure of Christmas? 
Heading to a Christmas tree farm is a fun way to get outside and get some exercise. Cutting and hauling your perfect fir will burn some calories too! For twenty minutes worth of effort, you will burn about 120 calories. Here is a great website for finding and cutting your own tree: Pick Your Own Christmas Tree.
Now if cutting down a tree for the Christmas season is not your style, you can buy a live tree to plant later. Digging a big hole after Christmas will burn some calories too. Say your average Christmas tree is a little over six feet tall, it would probably take you about 40 minutes to plant it. According to the iVillage calorie calculator, you would burn around 150 calories!
Either way you go with your tree, you are going to have to get physical! Happy decorating.
Buti
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BDL by Ben de Lisi
Be careful about thinking you can just buy a live tree and plant it in your backyard. These are BIG trees! Just be sure your backyard can accomidate it!
1Anyway, I wish I could go cut my own tree it reminds me of my childhood. Unfortunately I live in the desert now and we only have palm trees
The only Christmas tree farm in my area grows a pine I don't care for. We went to a garden supply center ans I chased my two-year old in and out of giant Noble and Fraser firs. It was great. He had fun and I got a little cardio.
2Getting my artificial tree up from the basement and assembled is quite a work out as well.
I
don't even know how many calories I burn doing that bit.
3I cut down my own tree this weekend. We do it every year and it is quite a workout. Luckily in the Hill Country of Texas there are a few Christmas Tree farms so the options are good.
4My parents use to make us hike up a mountain and drag it down the mountain. It was a crazy workout.
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