The reason why I am posting it and alot of the other trees I have currently been posting, is because there is alot of talk that I am just belittling people and not offering up any actual advice on how to help folks. Which is not the case.
I am more than aware that not everyone will have the luxury or the $$$ to be able to purchase or find world class material to work on. Me and the wife have had to payout in the last year more money than I can possibly imagine on medical expenses, so much so that it has equated to highway robbery!
So, then what to do? You just gotta be creative and make what you can afford into the best that you can. And yes it is possible to come up with a nice tree off of crappy big box store material.
This is a project that I have done on a little over a hundred dollars. The trees were all bought from home depot. They all cost $9.99 each. Ideally it would of been better if I had put them together, grown them in the ground, letting them grow out and fuse together faster, as well as thicken up. However, I understand that alot of folks will not have the ability to put them in the ground, because of where they live and cold. So, instead I chose to do this without putting them in the ground because of this reason.
It will take longer to do, but that's ok, I don't think it really matters. The tree is still cool as it is. Hopefully, some others will try it... it is a nice way of making crap into something kinda nice. And obviously, this could of been done with less trees... one could do a really cool tree with half of the number I chose.