Christmas tree poll

Just wondering for those who celebrate Christmas, do you have a real tree or artificial. Or are you going treeless this year?


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You have a poll Diane!

We have a fake tree. Earl would like to get a real tree, but until he's prepared to vacuum every day, we'll stick with the fake one.

I'm Jewish. I can't have a tree so I had to click no tree. I still like looking at them however. Sparkly!

Originally Posted by valanhb

You have a poll Diane!

We have a fake tree. Earl would like to get a real tree, but until he's prepared to vacuum every day, we'll stick with the fake one.

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Thanks Heidi!!

We have a fake tree. When I was in the 2nd grade our tree dropped like every needle. We've had fake ones ever since. I dislike plants and the trees are so prickly and everything too!

In my family, we put up not one, not two, but FIVE fake trees. 2 big ones, 3 four foot ones (one for each kid).

FIVE.

It's true.

I have a very small fake tree. I don't have room for a full size tree... best I can do is one that is small enough to fit on top of a small table.

I really really wish I could have a real tree though. I walked by the farmer's market the other day and they were unloading the Christmas tree truck. It smelled SO good!

Originally Posted by lionessrampant

In my family, we put up not one, not two, but FIVE fake trees. 2 big ones, 3 four foot ones (one for each kid).

FIVE.

It's true.

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Holy cow! I would love to see your families' house! Pretty...sparkly... (I'm like a kitty when it comes to sparkly Christmas trees. )

Originally Posted by lionessrampant

In my family, we put up not one, not two, but FIVE fake trees. 2 big ones, 3 four foot ones (one for each kid).

FIVE.

It's true.

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Whoa! Where do you put them all?

We have a 4 1/2 foot fake Douglas Fir, that sits on a lamp table in the front window.

We don't really have the right space for a big tree, and I've gotten over the desire for a real one, for a number of reasons. Yes, they smell wonderful. But that's not enough to compensate for the waste of a living thing. We tried having a small live tree a couple of years, but it didn't fare well being indoors at a point in its year when it was supposed to be in the cold.

Then there's the fire hazard, which is less these days than it was when I was growing up -- since the lights are lots cooler, and the wiring safer, and all that -- but it's still a consideration. And of course, the needles....

But that's OK. "Tim" is a handsome little fellow, and once decorated, the only giveaway is the lack of aroma.

Fake pre lit tree... real ones are to messy and to much of a fire hazard. I have never had a real tree and never want one.

dont have one yet. but it is always real.

Originally Posted by lionessrampant

In my family, we put up not one, not two, but FIVE fake trees. 2 big ones, 3 four foot ones (one for each kid).

FIVE.

It's true.

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I don't know what's more shocking, 5 trees or 5 kids. Well, I guess that's not to far from me. I plan on have four kids some day.

We have a fake one-we live in an apartment and they won't let us have real ones! When I was growing up we always used to have big real ones tho!

I LOVE real trees though since we've had this teenie tiny apartment we don't put up a tree at all!!!

It breaks my heart to see so many real trees cut down, so I always get a small potted tree to decorate. I feel like that's safer, too -- since it's alive, it won't dry out so easily and burst into flame!

That happened to a neighbor of mine a few years ago, with a tree that he'd put up only four days earlier. He and his son both jumped off the balcony and were all right, but their puppy was penned in the kitchen and died of smoke inhalation. Poor little guy.

Real trees are pretty and sentimental and all that, but they are costly, high-maintenence, messy, and potentially dangerous. We finally bought a fake tree last year, and I will never be sorry.

No tree, this year, as I'm moving but, I have a 6-ft artificial one. Next year, in my own home - I'm decorating.

Originally Posted by stormy

Whoa! Where do you put them all?

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Hehe, one goes in the family room, where the fireplace is, so you have the biggest tree (a 7 footer, I believe) and the pretty mantle.

The next biggest one, our 6 ft prelit baby goes in the big bay window in the "piano room" that faces out onto the street.

As for the 4 ft ones, one goes in my former-bedroom-but-is-now-a-storage-and-home-office-place, one goes in my sister's room, one goes in my brother's room.

ALL of our normal tchotsky's get taken down and put away. Everything from figurines to table cloths to plants are replaced with X-mas themed counterparts. We're sort of like the Griswolds', only it would be like 'The Griswolds go to Pottery Barn'. We don't do much outside...just put white lights on the bushes and those icicle lights on our front porch.

This is what we do the day after Thanksgiving. And we listen to Robert Goulet and Nat King Cole and it is one of my favorite parts of Christmas.