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  1. #1
    Registered User

    Nov 2006
    brisbane
    3,975

    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

  2. #2
    Registered User

    Nov 2004
    Melbourne VIC
    1,733

    Fake for the last few years. Always used to have a real one, but I was over the mess and then having to get rid of it after Christmas.

  3. #3
    Registered User

    Feb 2006
    Newcastle, NSW
    4,219

    Fake. I don't like the thought of killing perfect trees and I don't like that they turn brown anyway.

  4. #4
    smiles4u Guest

    Smile

    ............. me too Tinks, wahhhh ...... No ' real ' tree here as DP & i both get hayfever from real ones, soooo fake all the way in our home, LOL


    Mine cost me $80 on special from BigW about 15years ago, Xmas trees are heaps cheaper now then those days & much nicer ones you can get now too !!

  5. #5
    BellyBelly Member

    Mar 2005
    Limestone Coast, SA
    2,671

    We had real growing up, til we started getting hayfever

    Fake in this house due to my hayfever and DH phobia of spiders and our combined laziness.

    We actually dont have a tree yet, I am planning on getting a fibre optic one when I find one on sale

  6. #6
    BellyBelly Member

    Oct 2006
    Queensland
    2,039

    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!

  7. #7
    Moderator

    Oct 2004
    In my Zombie proof fortress.
    6,449

    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. : correct word

  8. #8
    Registered User

    Dec 2006
    In my own private paradise
    15,272

    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

  9. #9
    2013 BellyBelly RAK Recipient.

    May 2007
    Brisbane
    5,310

    Fake here, but we always had a real tree growing up.

    Sometimes dad would go chop a massive eucalypt branch, stick it in a pot, and decorate that. Those were 'traditional Aussie Christmas' ' he would say, but I suspect it was because they were free hehehehehe
    It was doable as my parents put the tree up on Christmas Eve, so it barely got time to go brown before it was given back

  10. #10
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    Jun 2003
    Ubiquity
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    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 itself 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.
    Awesome point. And not just that but the trees are farmed, they aren't cut down from areas of wild trees.