This is how things look here right now, how about at your place?

Do you protect the one real tree from the dust? Or do you mean the rest of the year, when it is in the attic? It is in the box in which it was delivered.

The rest of the year.
Thought it would be kept fully decorated.

No, of course not. It's just an artificial tree. The rest still belongs to it. So set it up, decorate it, etc.

The real ones are usually stored and transported in netting as well.

A few more have just been added:

I only know one who had an artificial one. He had taken the string lights from the socket and placed the tree in the attic.

Our €10 Aldi tree. The best we have ever had...

This year we will probably have the last tree. Next year there will only be a large vase with branches.