Do you prefer having a fake or real Christmas Tree this time of year?
Im a huge fan of real trees however, i think this year we're going to be getting a pre-lit fake tree for a change.
Also, how many of you already have your trees up?
Regards,
Lee
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Do you prefer having a fake or real Christmas Tree this time of year?
Im a huge fan of real trees however, i think this year we're going to be getting a pre-lit fake tree for a change.
Also, how many of you already have your trees up?
Regards,
Lee
The Christmases I remember as a youth we had a silver aluminum tree. So a few years ago, I bought one on ebay to go with my kitchy retro interior.
I like the fake ones that feel and look real.
Real trees dry up, shed and are sticky and messy. I have a fireplace and don't feel like taking the chance in my new place. So getting a new fake tree, the ones that look and feel real, for a few hundred bucks. Should last a good 5 years or more I 'recon.
Our tree is going up Wednesday :bunny:
I'll prefer to have no Xmas tree at all. As always I'm just glad when 'the season' is over again. :crazy: :bullcrap: :boring: :evilgrin:
Real. I always go with the 2 foot tall Charlie Brown tree :)
Always wanted one as a kid but my parents always got the giant tree. So now I get 1 every year.
Getting the little guy today :)
Merry Xmas!
--Chubbs
We try to get a live tree that we can plant each year. Our 3 foot Austrian Pine Tree (in a nice blue pot) went up yesturday.
We either plant them in our backyard or at my moms house each year.
Last year we went to a special National Park cutting where you could cut trees they had marked for clearing out of the forest. It was fun to tromp through the snow, find a tree, cut it down, strap it to a sled, etc.
I think that real trees, cut or live in pots, always smell better and look nicer than fake trees.
We could never have real trees when I was a kid, because I'm allergic to pines.
It was hell for my parents when I went to my grandmother and grandfather's house. I was always running off to play in the woods and climb the huge trees they had on the farm.
As I grew up, I exchanged that allergy for cats, but I've still never gotten a real tree. Maybe next year.
REAL all the way!!!!!! It's all about the smell :) - At least at home; have a small fake one on my desk.
Both my trees were up last week! I love xmas :santa:
We used to have a fake tree, but then the dogs chewed it up. Then we started buying real trees, but they'd die too quickly or get knocked over by the dogs or cats, so then we started to buy real trees but we would use dental floss and suspend and attach them to something stationery. End result, we got rid of the dogs and started buying Norfolk Pines. They are similar to Charlie Brown's Christmas tree heheh.. a little healthier looking.Quote:
Originally Posted by chubbs
Real Cats or Fake Cats..... is there even a solution? :santa:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kushiel
I'm a purest. I like the fake ones. Nothing spells Christmas like a fake tree covered in so many lights, ornaments and tinsel that you can't even see it. :)
We've bypassed the tree altogether this year and got menorah instead. It's less hassle, more presents, and i score mega-brownie points with my bf's mom. ;)
For us, real and only real. We love the smell, the touch of the leaves, the eccentric angles of the branches. We're never buy one until after the Feast of the Immacolata (the 8th) and take it down on the Feast of the Epiphany (January 6). I think Christmas is the one time of year where tradition trumps just about everything!
real trees have that wonderful smell that says "holidays!" to me :)
we're getting ours this weekend - can't wait!
:square: Fake
I'm allergic to real cats. I've found maybe three cats, ever, that I've not exploded in a swath of sneezes and hives from, each a different species, but apparently an exception from that species since I'm allergic to other ones.Quote:
Originally Posted by helixcash_sean
About the best I can do is dope myself up on Claratin quick desolve tablets and pray the place has been vacuumed and the cat doesn't decide it likes me.
It's sad, because I've always loved cats... ah well, there are plenty of other animals to shower my affections upon.
We have a fake one that lives in a box for about 50 weeks of the year until we pull it out, plug it in and that’s that. Simple. Bah humbug!
Wait.. a fake cat that lives in a box? Neat!Quote:
Originally Posted by luke preston
Fake for us.
reasons:
Fake and real trees cost about the same but fake ones last a lifetime.
Fake ones dont have all those pesky needles
you can adjust the branches to make the tree look perfect , real ones if there is a gap you have to live with it
at the end of the season you dont have a big brown igly thing sitting out on your sidewalk waiting weeks for the garbage people to pick it up
No tree. Our cat will eat anything that isn't nailed down.
Michael
Not to mention that fact that they plug it in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kushiel
I like the smell of real trees but you can get the glade candles now that smell like the damn tree and not have to clean up all the mess hehe!
We always had a real tree when I was growing up and the smell was always so wonderful. Problem was that my mother always had to have a 10 foot high, FULL BUSHY tree that several families of squirrels could live and feed of of for a year.
I still remember the agonies that my father would go through getting that damn tree with all its weight to stand firm. In that time, tree stands were not as sophisticated and so cinder blocks and heavy rocks, along with a few hidden wires nailed to the wall from behind the tree were used to keep it standing.
It was always fun though for my brother and I to watch my mother place the ornaments on the tree. Of course, my brother and I got to help -- after all, someone needed to carry the boxes up from the basement :whip: