Shoppers crack up at $5 'Charlie Brown Christmas' tree at Five Below

August 2024 · 3 minute read

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Oh, brother, another holiday hack.

TikTokers are championing the bargain store Five Below for its $5 spruces measuring at only four feet tall. But there’s a catch: The faux firs are so bare that they’ve been likened to the infamous Charlie Brown Christmas tree.

On the platform, the search for the company’s $5.55 tree has garnered over 112 million views, with people brimming with Christmas cheer encouraging viewers to “run” to purchase it.

“Don’t walk BUT RUN it’s so cute a little ugly but in a cute way I think,” one creator captioned their TikTok video, which featured footage of the tree being decorated with disco ball ornaments, garland and a bright, red bow.

Five Below also carries the artificial tree in different heights and colors, which users have hailed as a more affordable option than its pricier counterparts on the market.

Five Below’s viral $5.55 faux Christmas tree stands at just four feet tall — and it’s drawing comparisons to Charlie Brown’s puny fir. United Feature Syndicate
The thin frame appears fuller with lights and ornaments. TikTok / @addieleannee
TikTokers encouraged everyone to “run” to Five Below to purchase the bargain tree. TikTok / @addieleannee

“I cannot believe some of ya’ll are falling victim to that $600 Home Depot tree,” TikTok user @gigixelle, who goes by Gabrielle online, said in a video.

The footage shows Gabrielle assembling her three trees from Five Below, which she claimed only cost her around $30 total.

“Now, these trees do need a little bit of extra love, because they are, for lack of a better word, cheap,” she admitted.

“But we’re gonna work with that, even though these trees are a little Charlie Brown Christmas.”

One creator likened the tree to the spruce in “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” TikTok / @diaryoftroubledskin
The viral decor stands only four feet tall and costs $5.55. Five Below

While it takes extra work to string lights on the branches and give the boughs a facelift with garland, tinsel and ornaments, Gabrielle praised the affordable trees for helping her save money during the costly holiday season.

Some festive creators are filling the boughs with an impressive collection of twinkling ornaments, but others were left disappointed by the skeletal spruce, which lacked the volume of a real tree or a higher-end artificial one.

“It’s giving Charlie Brown Christmas,” snarked one person as she unboxed the Five Below tree.

Charlie Brown’s barren Christmas tree in the cartoon is famously only adorned with one red bulb. © 1965 United Feature Syndicate

But one TikToker created the illusion of full branches by adding green garland from Dollar Tree, while another recommended buying two, pushing all the branches on each tree to opposite sides and fastening them together with zip ties to appear like one, bushy tree.

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