The Pizza Box Tree is for people who don't want to be tied down to the responsibility involved in keeping a plant alive. It's non-organic, and quite easy to make, relying as it does on a person's natural laziness, and actually does grow.
What you do is, you get an apartment near a pizza place, near enough so that you can pick up a couple of slices in a box every couple of days. You stack the empty boxes in a corner, until they are too high to add another box without standing on something.
Then you need to spend the next couple of months using the stack of boxes as a kind of open air filing cabinet. You stick notes, important paperwork, and correspondence into the gaps between the boxes, far enough so they will be held firmly but still able to stick out a bit. Eventually, you will end up with a thick bodied tree in that corner, with foliage, or actually 'foliage', of various colors brightening the room.
If you're into the bonsai thing, you can make sure that larger paper is near the top, and smaller paper near the bottom, for a more naturalistic and harmonious canopy effect. One tall friend of mine had his Pizza Box Tree set up near his desk and phone, and would always add 'foliage' while sitting down. This gave him a tree that had it's 'foliage' all at about stomach height, with the 'trunk' rising bare above it. He ended up with an interesting effect we dubbed 'Martian Penis'.
Remember, your Pizza Box Tree should reflect you. Don't let anyone else tell you what your Tree needs, or that it's unsanitary. The bugs are all part of the great Circle of Life, after all.
Enjoy!
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