Convenient Handythings Christmas Tree Stand: Holds Up to 8-Feet Trees with 1.3-Gallon Water Capacity! Review

I have a 6.5ft center stand tree that claims to hold up to an 8ft tree except the screws don't even reach the trunk but you can't tighten properly due to the brittleness of the plastic. It's garbage. I put cardboard and wood spacers around my log to keep it from falling! Now I have to get myself a tree stand.

Fits most Christmas trees, although our garden tree was too thin for screws, the only reason for 4 stars. It's big and clearly meant for big trees, but I don't see any reason why the screws couldn't be a little longer. Our tree this year is one we pulled from our backyard and we just wrapped it in duct tape to make the trunk thick enough.

I bought a similar coaster from Home Depot about 5 years ago and decided to buy the same one. When it arrived I noticed that it was a lot lighter and felt a lot cheaper than my previous one. As I placed the 8ft tree in the stand and lifted it up, I heard a crack. The stand broke almost immediately along one of the seams on the bottom. What junk. I decided to go to Home Depot and buy the tree stand I got last time. Guess they have the exact same coasters as this one. So the company that sells…