How Big is a 10ft Christmas Tree?

It’s the sort of question that we get asked a lot more often than you would imagine!

This week we brought in Evie, one of our several occasional office dogs, to help give a definitive answer. Now, we know that any self respecting fan of the Big Bang Theory is going to say something along the lines of “a border collie is not a standard unit of measurement” but the point is this: by relating products to objects which we are familiar with, we can get a much better feel for how big they are in real life.

So, one of our 67mm baubles is around the same size as a tennis ball, or perhaps a large apple, while a 40cm bauble is smaller by a what is, visually at least, a surprisingly large amount – the same size as a ping pong ball. The bare numbers really don’t tell the story in a way our brains can handle very well!

By now, of course, you’re desperate to know the answer to the 10ft Christmas tree question. You could say 3m tall, but does that get us any further down the line? Not really.

What if we said: “a 10ft Christmas tree is about four and a half times the height of a border collie called Evie”.

Much better.