fake - but I used to have a Norfolk Pine tree in a pot until xh decided it would be good in the garden and one of the neighbours cut the top off it for their own giftmas tree
when I move, I will have one in a pot again for my giftmas celebrations :)
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fake - but I used to have a Norfolk Pine tree in a pot until xh decided it would be good in the garden and one of the neighbours cut the top off it for their own giftmas tree
when I move, I will have one in a pot again for my giftmas celebrations :)
Fake.
Ours is black, and we deck it all out in silver decorations... it looks pretty speccy actually.
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 :lol:
Real here! We had a fake for many many years, but last year we had real... and I don't think we'll be going back to fake!
fake here so I can put it up early & take it down late, I put the tree up on the weekend of the Christmas parade & DF has a go at me every time, but my excuse it I have to clear the presents that Ive bought all year out of my wardrobe so I can start on next years present shopping :p
Good question. growing up mum always insisted on a real one, but you know it made such a mess! and now days if I had a real one (cut down like back in the old days) I'd have to answer to all the environmentalists :hide: explaining what Astrid said on how the fake ones make more CO2. I guess it would be nice to grow one in a pot but it wouldn't suit my garden... So I've got a fake 6ft thick green one :D
Awesome point. And not just that but the trees are farmed, they aren't cut down from areas of wild trees.:
We have a fake one, but as kids we had a real one... You know I was only thinking about this the other day... I think I'd like to have a real one this year... should mention that to dh when I pick him up from work. I'm sure he's going to say no. Ours isn't up yet.
We had real growing up. I love the smell, but not the mess. I hadn't thought about the effect on hayfever sufferes - DH has ahyfever. Anyway, a real one wouldn't fit in the car and we don't have a trailer. I'll go get a fake. one
Teagz - a black one sounds cool - where did you get it?
I'm doing red and silver decorations this year, so that would work well.
Last year we got our first fake one ever, growing up & in our first 7 years of being married we'd go to the Christmas Tree Farm & cut our own down. Our problem was that it was getting too expensive at $40 a year when I could buy a nice $120 fake tree that will last 10 years.
I really do miss the smell though :(
As little kids we always had a fake one, then for a few years we did real, but its just too messy. When I moved out of home I went back to fake. I brought a new fake one last year and I'd like to think that it will last us for as long as we need a tree. I think I'd be divorced if I ever brought a new one ROFL. I did marry the Grinch though ;)