Real Or Fake?

[Colin]

We go to the farm and get our own...Christmas just wouldn't be the same with a fake tree IMO.

[petal*pusher]

O.K.....I admit it.....my trees are artificial. Used to only use fresh trees......(mmmmm.....those Frasier are wonderful; the "Cadillac" of trees!) and I used small Hemlock on both the front and back sun-porches......but last year I broke down and bought an artificial for the living room. This afternoon I purchased 2 little fake 4 footers for the porches because I'm anxious to get them all up!

I've been decorating customer homes for over forty years......so it'll be exciting to get mine done early! I bought fresh cedar roping for over the fireplace and outside.......and a 30# box of fresh mixed greens to make arrangements thruout the house.......LOVE this season!!.......p

[Pro-Storm]

I got my Silver Tinsel tree last year thanks to Pro-storm!!

Cool Hurricanegirl....Glad to be a factor in your selection. We just love our "old fashioned" tinsel tree!!

[streetsoldier]

We have an artificial tree that looks like the Black Forest uprooted and dropped into our living room....it may prove too big for our new apartment, though.

[stormy]

I love the smell of a real tree! Two years ago, I came home from work and found a snake under the tree. Turns out sometimes they get in the trees and then fall out. Yucky! lol

i would have been screaming sunnyday.
well 9 years ago my husband talked me into it because of all the needles falling everywhere. i do not like fake trees and want a real one back, but the one we did get is beautiful and so full. it looks just as good as the year we bought it and it was the display.
hey guys with a fake trees they have spray that u can buy and every year we spray the tree and it keeps its scent.

[hunter84]

Always get a real one. usually about 10'

[blizzard]

I never thought that I would allow anything in my house other than a real one, but lo and behold for the last ten years or so, we have had a fake tree. Although the one that we have, you could never tell it was fake. We even spray pine scent on it to make it seem more real.

[azsnowman]

REAL by ALL MEANS We ALWAYS go out the day after Thanksgiving while all the other folks are hitting the stores for bargins galore...we pack a picnic (mainly beer LOL!) hike the high country trying to find the PERFECT Blue Spruce......"AH, the SMELL of a fresh cut Blue Spruce!"

Dennis

[Rainband]

Fake, I have allergies too and even if I didn't We put our tree up sooo early that it wouldn't look to good after a while.. Tony's mother gave us a tree and we gave our old one to my mother..the one We got from tony's mom ..you would never be able to tell it was fake. Maybe thats why she paid over $300 dollars for it

[breeze]

"A-MEN" for my 4' fiber-optic tree!!!

It doesn't need decorating - you just shape it and
plug it in! Wow - a workin' girl could be so lucky!

[StormCrazyIowan]

I haven't even seen a fiber optic tree in someones house before! I think they are sooo pretty in the catalogs though!!

This was a hard question to anwser since I have two families (divorce will do that!) Since I live with my mom I anwsered for this household, which is fake, we have a HUGE fake tree because our ceiling is 15 ft and we can! At my dad's house, we get a real tree every year though, so I get a bit of both! I tell ya though, it is plenty easier to clean up the fake!

[David]

I always got a real one before the family farm we bought from went out of buisness (the guy died. )

Now we have this cool fiber obtic one!!

[vbhoutex]

OHD, this ole fart thought the same thing at first!! I guess that was why I was so quick to open the thread!

Chad get a smaller tree and put it up on a table. We did when our kids were young! You only have to do it for a year or two.

[firefighter16]

I go out every year right after thanksgving to a farm and pick a tree, then cut it down. It's tradition for me. It brings back a lot of memmories of years gone by.

[CajunMama]

Fake.....used to do real but I got tired of paying $100 for a decent tree. I'd rather spend the $100 helping out an underpriviledged child who wouldn't have any Christmas at all.

[azskyman]

When the price of real trees started jumping toward $40 back in Illinois, I did the math. An artificial tree bought AFTER Christmas at half price would pay for itself in 3 years or less.

So artificial it has been since the early 1990's.

But our Christmas spirit (with the exception of last year) is always alive and well.

[bfez1]

Real---love going to the tree lots and picking out the perfect tree. And oh, the smell of a real tree.

[azskyman]

I have to admit that when I first opened this post, I thought perhaps it was referring to the status of our breasts!!!

Here in Scottsdale (AKA Snotsdale) Arizona, it is common to give high school graduates breast implants for graduation (mostly for the girls, I hope!).

For the record, mine are real but our tree is not.

azskyman

[JCT777]

Real. My family had a fake tree for several years, but I never liked it. Even though a real tree is more work, I think it just looks and smells much nicer. Plus, I know of a place that has a wonderful selection. You cut your own and it's $25 for any tree between 6 and 8 ft. in height.

[Amanzi]

I have to admit that when I first opened this post, I thought perhaps it was referring to the status of our breasts!!!

Here in Scottsdale (AKA Snotsdale) Arizona, it is common to give high school graduates breast implants for graduation (mostly for the girls, I hope!).

For the record, mine are real but our tree is not.

azskyman

ROFLMAO..

I always have a real one! I would rather not get any gifts than have a fake tree. Need to smell that smell... it just takes me right back to childhood and the excitement of christmass. I want my kids to enjoy the same tradition I did growing up.

This year hubby has ordered a whole truck load of tress to sell at the nursery... I get the pick of the crop, and we have an a frame house with gigantic ceilings... so the sky is the limit for my tree this year (now I just have to save up money for ornaments!)