We recently purchased a Christmas tree skirt and it made me ill to have it in the house. After that, we found two other Christmas tree skirts in our basement and those also made me feel sick. I believe that tree skirts had this effect on me because they are probably loaded with the toxic chemicals found in flame retardants. Some people even spray flame retardant on their Christmas trees. I don't want to "[h]ave a holly toxic Christmas this year," so we used a sheet to make a tree skirt. :)
