This little tree was a perfect COVID tree.  Will use it again as a door decoration or in another room, but for COVID, with no family coming into town and a local family member very ill in a nursing home, we were not going to put up a full sized live tree.  The base was heavy and looked pretty good as is, so no need to cover it with a tree skirt.  The branches needed to be opened up and bent into a pretty shape but that was pretty easy and they support a lot of weight without drooping like a natural tree.