I've always had real Christmas trees, and real, freshly cut garland that I often cut and wired together myself, so I was expecting to be a little disappointed with my first artificial garland, but these are great! They arrived yesterday, and I put them up indoors. I purchased 2, and have them in different rooms at the moment, but they can be plugged together for an 18 foot length. Very happy so far! And no dropped spruce needles for me to clean up from behind the bookcases in January this year! Yea!