REAL TREE ? or FAKE TREE ? Your Tree Timeline

[Johnny]

In the sixties we had a Jimi Hendrix tree. It was fantastic. I used to tie a bandanda around the top.

In the seventies we had a Led Zeppelin tree. It was great. You could play it with a violin bow.

Then a friend told me as trees go they were both overated.

So we stopped using them.

Merry Christmas.

[Hector]

Sometimes fake, sometimes real.

This year...we have a small real one.

[wayne foundation 07]

Have had a fake one since we've been married, works out best since we have cats.The damage to the fake tree is sometimes bad enough a real tree wouldn't stand a chance.We put it up just after Thanksgiving and is down by the 1st of the year.

[Captain]

Back on the farm we always had a real tree.

Since 91' I have had a fake tree...the same one in fact. Looks real, and its more than paid for itself over the years. Have to admit I really like the idea of the pre-installed lights that most of the newer fake tree's have...may move up to one, one of these days....For now, my 91' Noma has become as much a part of Christmas as the old flocked Santa ornamant my Mom gave me when I was four.

Really miss the great pine smell of a real tree, but dont miss the needle drops, twisted trunks, or other negatives.

[Meule]

Growing up we always had a real tree, now I have a fake tree. Having to clean up all the needles of the real tree after getting rid of it, got real tiresome, so it's fake from now on

[UnderdogDJLSW]

My wife and I had always purchased a real tree until 2004 when our then 1 year old daughter almost pulled it down on top of herself. Since then it has been a very light but realistic fake tree.

[The Toyroom]

Always fake...I hate the smell of pine.

[Mikey]

I love the smell of pine.

Whenever I put my fake tree up, I always hang a pine car airfreshener up on it to simulate the pine smell

[palitoy]

fakey mcfake pants.

We had a shortage here one year, I was forced to buy a plastic one and well, my Scottish ancestry demands we use it every year.

Growing up was usually real unless we were going to Florida on Christmas day, which we did a lot as a kid. I think one year we just decorated a fern.

[Nostalgiabuff]

growing up we always had a real tree, and we always cut it down ourselves. I remmeber many years tramping through the woods with parents and 4 siblings looking for that perfect tree which always ended up being far too big for our living room.

I did the real tree we cut downourselves the first 2 years we were married but since my wife was pregnant I always had to drag the thing back by myself. Then we started buying pre-cut trees but the prices were going through the roof. I think when we hit $60.00 that was it. I went out the day after Christmas and bought a fake one at half price and that is what we still use. I also do not miss the mess of all the needles. They get everywhere and you are still finding them a year later when it's time to put a new tree up.

[Gorn Captain]

Go for fake trees.
We need the real ones for breathing...

[Earth 2 Chris]

REAL baby, forever.

It's a family tradition for me and my dad (and my grandfather before he passed on) to go Christmas tree hunting. My son, nephew and brother-in-law have joined us in recent years. We cut down cedar trees that farmers will plow over eventually. Not surprisingly, most of the people we ask tell us to take as many as we want.

One year, when I was still at home, we were forced to buy a tree, after hunting and hunting. They were all brown that year, due to drought that summer.

I told my wife if we ever buy an artificial tree, just ram it straight through my heart, cause I'd be better off dead.

Chris

[Adam West]

I grew up with the silver tinseled fake trees although I do remember having a real one once that we planted after Christmas. Although we have all left my childhood home, the tree was still alive the last time I checked (about a year ago).

After I got married in the early '90's, we used to go to a nearby Christmas tree farm and pick out a tree, cut it down, decorate it, etc. My wife really isn't into Christmas decorating so I always found myself doing all the work and my wife was not happy about the needles. We would buy the more expensive trees like the Frazier and Douglas firs but they were $60-$70. When I inquired why they were so much more expensive than say a Scotch Pine, I was told that they grew much slower than Scotch Pines.

I finally decided to buy an artificial tree and have had one for about 4 or 5 years. It works out well. Since I still do most of the work, I put it up on good Friday and usually leave it up until a week or so after New Years. If you really like the pine scent, you can always buy a Pine/Cedar scented Yankee Candle and light it on a table somewhere near the tree and it smells just as good as the real thing without the needles and sap.

Plus the artificial trees do look very real now if you buy a nice one. If you get it after Christmas, the tree will pay for itself in a year or two.