Fake or real Xmas tree...?

[tanya]

Which do you perfer a fake Christmas Tree or a real one?

I myself like real ones but last year I put up our very first fake one. It was nice!

[cherokeered]

I like a real tree...but normally put up a small fake one...I leave the lights on and just pack it away at the end of the season...lol


no fuss...no muss

[Kissie]

I like real ones but not putting one up at all this year.....

[WandaRing]

:sc real is nice but it takes a lot of work to keep it from drying out...fake sometimes looks fake but its less work and fire safe...:sc hey wait this thread sounds like my sex life:lmao :lmao

[tanya]

:sc real is nice but it takes a lot of work to keep it from drying out...fake sometimes looks fake but its less work and fire safe...:sc hey wait this thread sounds like my sex life:lmao :lmao

Hi AnnieGeee! Hope all is good!! This is nicely put!:lmao I so hear ya there!!

[Wil]

cut my own...the kids dig it...and they hump it to the truck...the smell is nice too...:ch

[scoobertina]

I prefer real, the smell fills the house... this is my last year for real though, next year I will be doing the fake thing..

[Han Solo]

Fake AND Pre-lit!............No watering, No vacuuming needles and NOW?? No stringing all those damn lights and untangling them.

Yep! I'm a mean one...MR. GRINCH....I really am a heel, I'm as cuddly as cactus..........well, you know the rest :D

[Sneaky]

Yeah. Those pre lit ones rock.

Until you take it out the next year and the middle section doesn't light up! And then the warranty expired.

And you can't find the broken light!

So you end up having to cut off all the lights with wire clippers!

[My_Secrets_Kept]

prefer real, but I also prefer to be able to breath for the month of December (allergies), so a fake tree it is!

[spare_change]

Always fake -- they are not as picky, and I hate picky places to hang my balls .... (oh, and lights, too)

[Han Solo]

Yeah. Those pre lit ones rock.

Until you take it out the next year and the middle section doesn't light up! And then the warranty expired.

And you can't find the broken light!

So you end up having to cut off all the lights with wire clippers!
Oooooo.........Kay! :sc Why is it I get the feeling that the Carolers just go ahead and skip "crazy wire cutter lady's" house every year??.....just sayin' ;)

[My_Secrets_Kept]

Always fake -- they are not as picky, and I hate picky places to hang my balls .... (oh, and lights, too)

I assumed yours was a live one ;)

[Iwantutowantme]

I had been putting up christmas trees for alot of years. Then I last year I came to the conclusion that they belong outdoors only. I do have 8,000 lights outside with the trees though..............

[spare_change]

I assumed yours was a live one ;)


Oh, it's definitely a live one --- but the tree is fake.

[OICurready4me]

I like the smell of a real tree but they aren't worth the effort it takes to go get them, put them up, keep them watered, and then the damn needles....the hell with it, went with the pre-lit one from Walmart this year

[Jezabella]

I grew up with a really awful fake tree with about 2 feet of space between the various layers of branches. Every year that thing came out of the attic and we decorated it. It was a real Charlie Brown Christmas tree -- the wilty sad one before the decorating and then the happy 'after' one. Oddly, though, the fake ones make me all nostalgic -- so while I like to keep it real, my tree is gonna be fake for sure!

[Pebbles]

The last few years...a fake tree has been in my sitting room!

[dirtyjeeper]

As a child it was a tradition for my family to go get the tree for Christmas. Know that I have my own family we continue to go to the same tree farm I went as a child. Our Christmas tree outing has all the bells and whistles hay ride, pony ride, hot cider and a ginger bread man, topped off with a visit with Santa. Although I cheat and also have two artificial trees.

[RedVixen]

I love real trees but we put up a fake one. Having cats & dogs in the house...need I say more :D

[fishon]

since I was a kid, I've always had real trees and it just wouldn't feel like Christmas if I didn't go out and get a tree. I suppose I like the tradition.

[flamengo130]

I grew up with a really awful fake tree with about 2 feet of space between the various layers of branches. Every year that thing came out of the attic and we decorated it. It was a real Charlie Brown Christmas tree -- the wilty sad one before the decorating and then the happy 'after' one. Oddly, though, the fake ones make me all nostalgic -- so while I like to keep it real, my tree is gonna be fake for sure!

LOLOLOL. Nostalgic is great! The last three years I have put up an aluminum tree from the '50's. Found it stored away in the attic, still in the box, with all the paper sleeves for the branches. Even have the rotating colored light thingy! Think I'll break down and buy a new artificial tree this year...and a box of pine scented air fresheners..lol.

[Cotties]

real...real plastic that is

[Torin]

We use a fake tree. I would love to have a real one one year, just to see what it is like.

[Cotties]

flamable probably:sc We use a fake tree. I would love to have a real one one year, just to see what it is like.

[WandaRing]

Fake AND Pre-lit!............No watering, No vacuuming needles and NOW?? No stringing all those damn lights and untangling them.

Yep! I'm a mean one...MR. GRINCH....I really am a heel, I'm as cuddly as cactus..........well, you know the rest :D


cuddly as a cactus?....funny, I don't see you as a little prick...smart ass maybe but a prick, no way, never!:na :lmao

[WandaRing]

I love real trees but we put up a fake one. Having cats & dogs in the house...need I say more :D


when I was a little kid, I had a dog that hated to go outside in the winter, I swear at Chirstmas time the dog thouht the real Christmas tree was his own personal toilet....he got smart, he'd pee behind the tree aiming for the can:lmao

[lilolekimba67(f)]

Use to get real ones all the time ... but the past couple years the price has gone up so now I have a fake one... actually its pretty good

[p.J]

Love the smell of real ones.


I have read somewhere that artificial 'Black' Christmas trees are being sold and selling like hot cakes.

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2005/11/blacktreePA151105_350x450.jpg

Looks rather stunning...

[tanya]

Love the smell of real ones.


I have read somewhere that artificial 'Black' Christmas trees are being sold and selling like hot cakes.

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2005/11/blacktreePA151105_350x450.jpg

Looks rather stunning...

When we were kids we used to get a real tree, because my mom liked the smell of real ones too!! Thanks for the memory!!!!

[nwmo4fun]

One of each actually...

[Sweetdreams069]

This is the first year I ever had a fake one and I have to admit, I really like it. Looks really good :ch

[Missy38]

We have always put up a fake tree....

[cheerymissy_34]

This year i have a real one...but there r some really nice fake ones though

[Huzyerdaddi]

Christmas trees are like breasts. If I can touch it and feel it in my hand, it's "real"

[chasezee]

I like real best the smell the feel fake jus doent cut it

[unctarheel_32]

I like the fake ones myself

[oldandnaked]

The prelighted fakes ones look quite real these days. No muss no fuss. We hang a real wreath indoors to provide the smell. Even though I know the real trees are grown specifically to be harvested for Xmas, it still bothers me to kill such a thing of beauty for a couple weeks of pleasure and then have it carted off to the landfill. When I was a kid, my Dad used to buy a live evergreen (with a root ball) every year and then plant it after the holidays. Guess that's where I come by my "tree hugging" ways.

[Shiane]

Heck fake or real doesn't matter, I'de just like to have mine up already. It doesn't look like it is on my agenda today either. Oh well maybe I'll have time next week... I hope!:whee:

[MCat]

Time for a Norman Rockwell moment....we always had the biggest best Douglas Fir or Balsam Fir christmas tree when I was growing up.

Every year as long as I can remember my grandparents sold Christmas Trees on their farm. Starting a couple weeks before Thanksgiving my grandfather, my dad and my uncles would start heading north and hauling Christmas Trees home.

Grandpa would string lights around the garage and along the barnyard fence. We set up a gift shop in the garage, spending the weeks before making cookies,peanut brittle and inexpensive gifts to sell. Thats how we kids earned money for Christmas. If we helped sell the trees Grandpa would pay us a couple days before Christmas so we could go shopping.

It wasn't till many years later I discovered the real reason they did all this work...I always thought it was for the fun of it....they did it to pay their land taxes each year.

Last year was the first year in my whole life that trees were not sold on the farm. Was heartbreaking to see the end of a tradition....the family refused to pass the job onto the next generation....we would have carried it on...I have lots of fun memories.

Unfortunately we have had a fake tree for many years because our kids had allergies.

[Shiane]

Sounds wonderful Mcat!

[Annie]

We have a fake, pre-lit tree. We just got tired of having the mess every year. Now if we want that pine smell, we just hang those Christmas tree car air-fresheners as ornaments!

[tanya]

We have a fake, pre-lit tree. We just got tired of having the mess every year. Now if we want that pine smell, we just hang those Christmas tree car air-fresheners as ornaments!

:lmao :lmao

[rainbowhigh]

We have a fake tree. I haven't had a real tree since I was a little girl when we lived out in the country. I remember that I loved the smell, but that they were hard to take care of and messy. It's just easier for us to put up our fake one every year rather than try to buy a real one and try to find a way to get it home without making it look like Charlie Brown's Christmas tree. lol

[jasonmnusa]

I love real trees but we put up a fake one. Having cats & dogs in the house...need I say more :D

We do real trees. True story, my cat eats the needles, and the end result is a pine smelling litter box. Odd, but better than the alternitive I guess.

The other plus of a real tree is they make a hell of a bon fire!!!!

[wall-flower]

We do the fake tree thing. Real trees are too messy and too much work. I do buy a few branches from the tree lot. That way we get the pine smell without the mess.

[PlayfulMale69]

Heck fake or real doesn't matter, I'de just like to have mine up already. It doesn't look like it is on my agenda today either. Oh well maybe I'll have time next week... I hope!:whee:

If you still need help next week when I get back, let me know and I will come by and help put it up. :D

[noodlegurl]

I prefer the real christmas tree's but this year I put up my great grandmothers silver christmas tree, I have a house for of pups that kept undressing my other tree.... LOL.......

[dartgirl]

We always do a real one. The fake ones are looking good enough I wouldn't mind having one but the kids don't like that idea. But then they are not the ones keeping it watered, cleaning up the needles as they fall off and cleaning up the mess after christmas either when you have this trail of dead needles poking my feet when I walk barefoot in the house. Bah Humbug!

[duanehofner]

No tree this year, but last 2 years we had real trees, No time to decorate a tree this year.