How Do You Like You Christmas Tree...Real or Fake?

[JMURedskins]

I grew up with a couple family members with bad allergies, so we always had a fake tree.

[WVUforREDSKINS]

Fake. I used to insist on real, but it gets to be too much hassle. The fake trees they make these days look MUCH better than when I was a kid.

~Bang

Aww Bang for once I disagree with you. Going out to the woods and cutting down a tree with my dad was one of my fav. parts of Christmas.

[SoCalSkins]

It is a symbol representing fertility. Do you prefer your symbolic penis to be made from organic or artificial materials?

[renaissance]

I've only ever had fake trees. I honestly wouldn't know how to keep up a live tree without starting a fire.

[Renegade7]

Real all day, but that's just me.

[GhostofSparta]

My wife grew up with fake trees, I grew up with real trees. She was really excited to get a real tree for Christmas. Last year we lived in a small apartment, so we got a 4 ft fake tree. This year, we got a real tree that she got to pick out, water, and decorate. She was quite happy.

[fullnelson9999]

Real.

Theres nothing like the nice scent of pine in the house around Christmas.

[Midnight Judges]

I prefer real, but fake is so much easier.

[brandymac27]

I like pre lit fake b/c they're easier to take care of and reusable the next year.

[Special K]

REAL! HELLO! I could never face my parents if I had to tell them my husband and I set up a fake tree at our house. Blasphemy!

Besides, nothing's more fun than freezing your butts off while Griswalding it out into the snowy mountains to cut down the tree that has been picked by GOD for your house that year! I felt like a total loser b/c my husband and I had to go to a tree lot this year to get our tree.

Plus, nothing beats the smell of a pine tree in the house over the holidays.

[CRobi21]

We've always gone real..

[Burgundy Burner]

Fake. It looks very real and no one notices. Just set it up every year and avoid the hassle of a real tree.

[CRobi21]

When keeping it real, goes wrong..

[81artmonk]

Love them real, however it just got too expensive to do real. Around my area they were getting up around $90. That's quite a few extra gifts. I can't see paying that much when it's going to die in a week or two.

I didn't mind paying $35-55 but when it starts getting that much I draw the line.

[Hubbs]

When keeping it real, goes wrong..

:rotflmao:

[Special K]

Love them real, however it just got too expensive to do real. Around my area they were getting up around $90. That's quite a few extra gifts. I can't see paying that much when it's going to die in a week or two.

I didn't mind paying $35-55 but when it starts getting that much I draw the line.

Where I grew up in Northern Cal., and where my family still hunts for trees, permits, I think, used to be free when I was really little. If not free, like 2 bucks. We'd have a bunch of families get together, go up in the mountains, sled and snowmobile, and haul our trees back down. Then it went to $5! THEN, it went up to $10 and we all balked at those outrageous permit prices. My dad was so pissed... "highway robbery" I think was his exact quote, lol.

Anyhow, with all the family friends and everyone who goes tree hunting with us, the permits probably cost less than $100 total for 7 or 8 trees we get, good sized trees too, around 7-8'. And my dad goes nuts and gets a 20 footer every year...that's always fun to haul out of the forest. Not.

[Kosher Ham]

Real trees. They make some good fake ones these days but the real ones and the effort to go get one is worth the hassle to me. Plus, every year you have a brand new tree... with a little different character.

[brandymac27]

Where I grew up in Northern Cal., and where my family still hunts for trees, permits, I think, used to be free when I was really little. If not free, like 2 bucks. We'd have a bunch of families get together, go up in the mountains, sled and snowmobile, and haul our trees back down. Then it went to $5! THEN, it went up to $10 and we all balked at those outrageous permit prices. My dad was so pissed... "highway robbery" I think was his exact quote, lol.

Anyhow, with all the family friends and everyone who goes tree hunting with us, the permits probably cost less than $100 total for 7 or 8 trees we get, good sized trees too, around 7-8'. And my dad goes nuts and gets a 20 footer every year...that's always fun to haul out of the forest. Not.

I wish we had a place like that around here. To get a real tree here, you have to go to one of those tree stands and they're very expensive, unless you wanna drive 6 hours to the mountains.

[81artmonk]

dad my dad goes nuts and gets a 20 footer every year...that's always fun to haul out of the forest. Not.

Sounds like NL christmas vacation. funny stuff

[81artmonk]

I wish we had a place like that around here. To get a real tree here, you have to go to one of those tree stands and they're very expensive, unless you wanna drive 6 hours to the mountains.

Yeah I agree. Wish we had a place where we could get a permit and go cut your own tree.We used to have quite a few christmas tree farms where you can pick/cut your tree fresh. However for whatever reasons, economy,location, they are out of biz and now shipping in already cut(ie dead) trees for 70-80 bucks a pop.

Even the most expensive farms don't have trees to select from and if you find one expect around $90. And that's for a 6ft'r

Not to mention they no longer carry grants. Which are the one tree that really has a strong piney christmas tree smell. The others like douglas or fir are almost ordorless.

[Special K]

I wish we had a place like that around here. To get a real tree here, you have to go to one of those tree stands and they're very expensive, unless you wanna drive 6 hours to the mountains.

That sucks. The mountain we drive to is a little over an 1 hour for us, and that includes getting to our "spot" a good 30 minutes up the fire road.

When I spent a couple holidays back east in Baltimore, I went with my aunt and uncle's family to a tree farm where they were able to pick out a tree and cut it down...but it was like $100! LAME.

Even more lame, my husband and I got our tree from a tree lot this year and paid about $75 total, that sucked.

Real trees. They make some good fake ones these days but the real ones and the effort to go get one is worth the hassle to me. Plus, every year you have a brand new tree... with a little different character.

Yeah, that's what my family always says, and its worn off on me.

Sounds like NL christmas vacation. funny stuff

That's pretty much what it is. You will never know how happy my dad was when my sister and I started dating and getting married as we would bring our boyfriends as extra muscle to help drag the tree up to the main road.

[81artmonk]

That's pretty much what it is. You will never know how happy my dad was when my sister and I started dating and getting married as we would bring our boyfriends as extra muscle to help drag the tree up to the main road.

That's comedy.

[brandymac27]

That sucks. The mountain we drive to is a little over an 1 hour for us, and that includes getting to our "spot" a good 30 minutes up the fire road.

When I spent a couple holidays back east in Baltimore, I went with my aunt and uncle's family to a tree farm where they were able to pick out a tree and cut it down...but it was like $100! LAME.

Even more lame, my husband and I got our tree from a tree lot this year and paid about $75 total

Yeah, the lots are expensive here too, and the trees you get aren't even all that big. If it tells you anything, I've only seen a real Christmas tree farm once in my life and that was when I was in CT (where I was born) one winter.

The mountains are so far away from where I live that it's just cheaper to either go to a lot or buy fake.