Real OR Fake?

I love what my grandma used to do: She had a 3 foot tall tree which she decorated once, plugged it in, and when she was done for the year, would unplug it and stick it in her closet until the next year. I get my lazy side from her.......

I do hang up live wreaths to get the pine smell in my house. The cats manage to jump up on it at least a couple times during the season and hang on it, so it is securly tied to the door.

we dont do a tree anymore, the first year we had blackie and stripey, they were about 6 months old and it was a diasater, they were awful, so i said then, no more!! lol, i was afraid they would get hurt and the tree wasnt that important

My roomate got a fake tree for us because of the fiasco with Tiger and Patches last year

No tree, no wonderful pine smell, no pretty ornaments....waaaahhhh!

But I have four cats, completely unappreciative of my great sacrifice *big dramatic sigh*

We have a three or four foot (can't remember precisely -- DUH!) artificial tree. Whether it goes up or not in any given year, depends on the ages of the current feline population and whether we'll actually be here on Christmas Day.

Well, we will be here on Christmas Day, and we got away with it last year, so we'll probably put it up this year, too -- if I can only remember where it got stashed when this computer got set up

The thing sits on a table in the front wondow, and we decorate sparsely in white/clear/gold, though last year we used only lights -- lots of the tiny ones -- because we were still concerned about Fawn's attraction for dangly things. She seems to be outgrowing that, so maybe we'll use ornaments again. Dunno.

The years that we don't do a tree, we put up lots of garlands with pretty ribbons on them. It actually makes a pleasant change, though I do miss the tree when we don't do it.

Haven't done a real tree for years, for a variety of reasons, not least of which is the environmental impact.

No tree so far. The way Heather's talking we prob aren't going to get one. I may get a little baby one to put on the table top though. We really should have one since it's the first year in our new house.

Originally posted by Kiwideus

I don't like the idea of cutting down a tree and killing it just to make my living room pretty for a few weeks, the environment needs trees more than I do.

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I totally agree with you!

I love real trees, but I agree with other people I don't want to cut a tree down just for me. We grew a pine tre in our bakyard four or five years ago and we had a huge backyard, which backed onto farm-type land and it was the only tree for miles and it was gorgeous and we decorated our own pine tree, we had to chop it down when we sold the property.

However for safety reasons we now have a Fake tree incase the cats try and eat the pine. We decorate it to the max and it always looks gorgeous! My cats have never even touched the tree.. Like Tammie said on a thread before persians must be lazy?

Kiwi, once again we are in agreement. I have never understood the concept of "ok, there is a beautiful tree, LET'S KILL IT." I can understand decorating one in your yard or something, but it just bugs me to kill perfectly good trees.
We had the ugliest silver fake tree in the universe when I was growing up, I think they finally just threw it away when my daughter moved out of the house.
I am not a holiday kind of person, so I am not decorating anything.

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Originally posted by Kiwideus

I don't like the idea of cutting down a tree and killing it just to make my living room pretty for a few weeks, the environment needs trees more than I do. [/b]
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I totally agree with you!

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But these trees were specifically grown for this purpose. If there is less demand, less will be grown so...

on that note, I saw some nice ones that weren't too expensive outside of a local WalMart today... I might consider getting one, we'll see!

We put up a live tree. A friend has a tree farm, and since he already has them cut, I don't feel as guilty as I should.

I love the smell of the live tree, and so do the cats. They were pretty good about not climbing the tree we had last year. When Faile was a kitten, I caught her in the tree a few times though.

Originally posted by jugen
No tree for me either. I can just see one day coming home and seeing a cat or two hanging entangled in the lights looking pathetic all the while trying to act like they didn't do anything.

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But Jugen.. that would make a purrrfect "caption this" photo!!!

I can agree with the majority.. in saying I really do love the real trees.. but I hate the thought of chopping one down just to display in the house for a couple weeks.. but i will probably end up doing it anyway... I mean.. they do keep planting them year by year.. for this purpose.. my boyfriend is also allergic to trees.. which.. hmm.. i should really compensate to that.. but.. sigh.. what to do. I am making some outdoor wreaths on the weekend with just some bows from the trees which should give me that nice tree smell throughout the house. I just don't have the $$ to buy a tree this time of year! maybe after christmas when they all go on sale. They're just too perfect too. i like my trees to have character! Where there is a gap, fill with a big ornament! I don't know how the gurls are going to react to the tree this year.. LOL should be interesting.. Their cat post is around the same height as a tree... hope they don't get confused and start climbing throughout, eating my ornaments!!!

Can we rename this thread - as soon as I saw something saying Real or Fake - I had my hopes up about what it may be about,..I had Pamela Anderson on my mind. I was seriously optimistic there!

Kev

With the poll title I thought you were asking about sertain body parts!

We have a fake treee due to allergies and the fact we want to protect the cats from the needles and the water for the tree!

I thought this was going to be about fur...

But since I came in....

Fake tree. I don't like the thought of a tree being cut down purely for decorating and letting it die after the festive season. I'd rather see trees being planted permanently in rehabilited zones of land.....*sigh*....

I think I've turned into a greenie without realising it.

No tree here-I have a small apartment and a very nosy cat.

I do get my real tree fix when I go home to visit Dad, however (the trees come from a local farm dedicated to Christmas trees). He's got his ornaments very well organized, so that all the soft and cat-safe ornaments go on the bottom (Dad's cat Pumpkin thinks the tree is her personal playground) while the glass and ceramic ornaments go up high.

No tree for me. My cats would knock it over. I put a wreath on my door, but most of my decorating is done at work.

Can't have a tree around here with all the Kitties!!
I used to have a small living Norfolk Pine that I decorated for Christmas, but the Kitties did that in.

I was raised having a real tree every year . . . so I still prefer a real one!