Real or fake Christmas tree?

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Every year, the family and I drive out to a tree farm and hunt for a Christmas tree. After finding one that conforms to my mother's stringent requirements, we get on the ground and saw it down, wrap it up and haul it back home. I really enjoy it and plan on doing it as long as tree farms still exist.

Still, it seems like we're kind of in the minority (though it helps that the county I live in is largely rural and tree farms are only a 30 minute or so drive). So what about you all? For those of you who put up and decorate a tree during the holidays, what's it made of? Did you buy a plastic tree and keep it in the attic, or do you get a real tree every year?

If you do get a real tree, do you hunt for it or buy a pre-cut tree?
 
We used to do real trees every year – and since we have 12 acres, my dad would usually buy potted trees so that we could plant them after Christmas was over. But about five years ago, we realized that they were just killing my and my mom’s allergies, so we started using an old fake tree.
 
We have a fake Christmas tree. We got a black one, just to show how against the grain and non-conforming we are.
 
Real! In the few years before I moved out, my job was to go out to the country and find a wild on, saw it down, throw it in the car and bring 'er home. We had high ceilings, so I had to pick out a huuuge one and just trim it down later on. We've got some land here and there, so it wasn't a problem finding a nice one and chop it down.

13 foot tree in a 13 foot long car? No problem.

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Nowadays I've got one of these:

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My parents get theirs from a tree farm, my mom's parents get theirs from their property, and my dad's parents have a fake tree.
 
When I was young, I’d visit my Grandparents every year in Hungary. My Grandpa would take me out and we'd cut down a real tree. Now that I’m older, I miss having a real tree and the wife & I opt for a plastic tree. As awesome as it is having a real tree for Christmas, they are damn expensive here in Australia and when it comes down to it, buying myself some funky new toy or whatever usually wins when pitted against having a real tree.
 
We have one of each in our house. The big, real one goes in the living room and my sisters fight over the little, fake one, although I think that usually goes in a common area too.
 
Tree?
 
Wow that's awesome!...wood flooring:dopey:
 
You're right, it isn't! How silly of me. :lol:
 
Fake, about 1.3m tall...who cares, does the job...when the presents don't all fit it makes the presents look like there is more quantity.

Here it is, sorry about the quality, night mode on a phone, we all know it isn't that fantastic.




EDIT: You would have thought it would have resized to a better quality...oh well you get the picture.
 
Fake. I can't ever remember having a real tree. I don't know why anyone would want one either, they are a mess and just get needles everywhere. When I get my own house I think I'll be hard pressed to even have a tree.
 
Fake this year but have had real ones the past couple of years. Real trees won't drop their needles if you keep the stump in water. They also get spayed so they don't drop. We got a real one 3 Christmases ago that got dumped out back on it's side afterwards and largely forgotten about. When i eventually got around to hiring a skip 18 months later, although it had gone brown it still hadn't dropped it's needles.
 
we haven't decorated for 20 YEARS. everybody but me generally goes to work on Christmas day. after all, Hospitals don't close, and deliveries still have to be made. besides, Christmas is for the grandkids and GREAT grandkids, anymore. plus, with none of us being religious, that element is out, too.

one year, we did bring in a deliberate "charlie Brown" tree...rootball and all it's still alive almost 30 years later.

I'd say, if your going for a live tree here in the states, consider a Hemlock for a change of pace. at least you can see the needles when the fall of on a cut tree :P
 
We've done the real tree thing every year since I've been with my wife. They grow them in North Carolina, and haul them to the supermarkets and home improvement stores in the area right after Thanksgiving.

They're a nuisance to set up, trim, and getting the sap off is a chore, but after an hour or two, you forget all that, and it smells great for a month.

We have to go small this year, since Bailey's able to wander over to the tree and climb things.
 
Got a fake one, average sized... just easier that way and still looks just as good as any real one, especially when you plaster on the decorations anyway.

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Fake. I can't ever remember having a real tree. I don't know why anyone would want one either, they are a mess and just get needles everywhere.
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Uhh, spending quality time with your family, the spirit of Christmas when you go out and fetch one yourself then bring it home, set it up, decorate it. Then the house smells amazing for a while. As a man, you've also got the chief engineering duties of orchestrating the dimensions and stability of said tree. It's an experience, and it's the central part of many people's holiday traditions. This thread is full of stories of people getting real trees, which I see far more valuable than going down into the basement and hauling up a dusty box full of plastic branches.
 
Fakity, fake fake fake for me.

The slimmer version of this one covered with these and these. Real picture later.
 
We picked up this 'real' beauty just last night. Now If I wouldn't have left all the trimmings at the ex's I'd have a good looking tree going on.

 
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We should have a seperate discussion for us Real tree enjoyers:

Real or cultivated?
 
Theirs a woman up my street that sells real Christmas Trees, so we get them there. A bit of sawing is sometimes involved. The Tree goes after a few weeks, but the Needles stay all year round!
 
Um Wild?.... because your going to go off into some national park in the middle of the night and hack down a tree...:rolleyes:
 
Well my grandparents get a "wild" tree every year from their yard (they have 240 acres with plenty of pine trees to pick from).
 
For us is pretty arbitrary whether or not we get a fake tree or not. It isn't out of laziness, because everytime we get a fake tree we buy a new one, saving precisely zero energy or money. This year we are getting a real one. Last year we had a real one (that didn't die until March!). The year before that we had a fake one (one of those awesome ghost white ones, with blue lights). The only real difference is how long cleanup takes after we take it down.
 
Depends on which house I'm at. Living here in my townhouse, we go for the small-ish fake trees. Out at my Dad's, in the "country," he nabs the 10ft real trees.

Personal preference? A well-kept real tree is alright, but I like them small. Problem is, that seems hard to find around here.
 
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