Always had fake growing up apart from 1st year living in Australia, when we were given a real one and as nice as it was ouch ouch pins in feet and mum said never again!!
fake. I cann't bring myself to kill a beautiful tree just to use as a decoration at christmas. I don't have anything against people who do - they look beautiful, and i have considered it. But i just cann't bring myself to have one.
Ohhh I love real ones. The smell, and imperfectness...however - dh was the one who had to squeeze it in the car, and put it up and then take it down and get rid of it...and since he's the one who actually does the Christmas tree, he wants what is easier for him, which is fair enough! Helps that he grew up with a fake one...whereas I grew up with a real one and ohhhh that smell. Mmmmm...
FAKE: the real ones are too messy and invite too many crawlies into the house.
Can't handle the huge spiders that live in a real tree!
And I can pack up a fake tree by myself. I used to hate waiting weeks for DH to get rid of the dry old skeleton of a christmas tree out of the loungeroom.
Real here! Never had a real one till DH, initially we had the fake one, but then we found a Christmas tree farm where you could go and pick your own. Thankfully we found another farm down this way when we moved. So now it is a little Christmas ritual each year to go and pick the tree. Each year it is the same thing, me going one that the tree is too big and DH going ahead anyway. Then we get this HUGE tree, that he suddenly admits when we get it home that it was too big.
I have no issue with the mess. The only thing is that decorations need to have a string, rather than the small metal loop, other wise they cannot be hung.
We always had a real one!
They were so funny most years...they never looked like the ones in the movies ...they would have 4 or 5 big branches and they would go brown within a couple of days but the smell was beautiful.
We now have a big fake one!
somone should invent christmas tree smell in a can x
Fake. As a kids we had the real ones and I remember one yr my little brother cried when he realised the tree died so we had a real one but it was this tiny tiny sparce thing in a pot lol...was a bit ugly!
Some of you might be surprised to know that is it more environmentally friendly to have a real tree than a fake one. The tree gives good stuff to the atmosphere during its life and then gives itself back to the earth once we are finished with it. The fake ones pump a lot of CO2 into the air during the manufacturing process and then sit in landfill.
Last edited by Astrid; November 27th, 2009 at 06:12 PM.
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we have an artificial tree - as much as real trees are lovely, i find that pine smells give me mammoth migraines - i can only visit friends who have real trees for short periods of time. pine cleaners and candles do the same thing... sucks big time cos it smells so good - but it knocks me on my butt every time
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fake or real??
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...... No ' real ' tree here as DP & i both get hayfever from real ones, soooo fake all the way in our home, LOL
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