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What type tree do you have?
Artificial tree 10 (40%)
Fresh cut tree 11 (44%)
Live tree 2 (8%)
No tree 2 (8%)
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Your Christmas Tree; fake or fresh?
Topic Started: Dec 7 2007, 07:53 AM (284 Views)
plays88keys
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We always had fresh cut trees until five years ago when a severe drought left the trees in our area so dry that the fire marshal condemned them all. Since then we've had an artificial tree that is so easy to use we don't miss the fresh trees at all (except for their fragrance.)

What do you use?
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jon-nyc
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No tree here.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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kenny
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This year fake.
Some years real.
Some years none.
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Mikhailoh
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Fake, but we've had it for so long now - all Lauren's life, that it is like a member of the family. Janet and Lauren put it up (sans lights and ornaments) in like five minutes flat last night. Lauren is a machine!

Not bad for $90 at Target 15 years ago, and it still looks better than any other artificial tree I've seen.
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Aqua Letifer
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I have a pole.

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big al
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We go to the same place each year where they cut the tree you pick.

Years ago, we bought a balled live tree each year and planted it in the yard after Christmas. Eventually, I ran out of places where I wanted to plant another evergreen. We've lived in the same house for 24 years, so some of those early trees are really big now.

I have a picture somewhere of me as a lad of about six standing next to a blue spruce at the home I grew up in. I and the tree are about the same height. I got taller, but so did the tree. It's easily 50 feet tall now.

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Jamie
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I'm somewhat blessed to have grown up in an urban environment that's just a hop/skip and jump from absolute wilderness, so for many years we cut our own tree(s).

However, about 7 or 8 years ago, we've opted for the artificial tree, and then two years ago, got even lazier and bought a new prelit artificial Costco jobbie. But we usually also put up a tree outside, which is au natural, so it's a little of both, really.
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Mark
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HOLY CARP!!!
Always a real tree fan because my parents always had artificial trees. Always the rebel I guess! :D

Anyway about 3 or 4 years ago after searching the tree farms for what seemed an eternity unable to find even a semi decent looking tree for a semi reasonable price, we gave up on real trees and purchased an artificial one. It has already paid for itself and then some.

It looks great too.
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Jamie
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Dec 7 2007, 08:20 AM
I have a pole.

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Nice to be able to put that strip club rehersal to good use... :D
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Daniel
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HOLY CARP!!!
Aqua Letifer
Dec 7 2007, 08:20 AM
I have a pole.

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Aqua Letifer
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big al
Dec 7 2007, 08:21 AM
We go to the same place each year where they cut the tree you pick.

Kind of reminds me of what we used to do. There was a HUGE Christmas Tree farm in my home town. It's three hillsides, just covered in Christmas Trees. My parents and I would take my father's pickup to the place, walk around and check them all out for a couple hours. They didn't cut them, though; you had to do it yourself which was half the fun. Mounting the tree on its stand and actually setting it up inside was the real task. With so many needles and that sap getting stuck to your hands it could sometimes take 20 minutes just to position it through the doors. After the needles were vacuumed and the tree was properly watered, my mother would spend the rest of the day putting up ornaments. (My father took care of the lights beforehand but if you ask me, that's the easy part of the job.) She has a huge collection of ornaments. Some were my great-grandmother's, others were from various countries, bought as gifts from their vacations or from someone else's. Others she got at yard sales and craft stores. Really all kinds; they were quite a thing to look at.

Now we do nothing.
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kenny
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Aqua Letifer
Dec 7 2007, 08:20 AM
I have a pole.

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Kincaid
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I'd be happy using an LED lit fake Noble fir, but it would have to look absolutely real and fold up in a way that it took up about as little space as Aqua's Festivus Pole.

We always cut a fresh tree and will be doing so this Saturday. (It's going to be muddy!).
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Rick
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Gotta be real. One local outfit gets the best looking trees from Oregon.

Some years I'll pick a Noble Fir, others a Grand Fir.

This year is the first time I picked a white flocked Grand. Looks outstanding with the new ornaments we bought.

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musicasacra
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HOLY CARP!!!
Real

We used an artificial tree sometimes when I was a kid -- I think the real is so much better.
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justme
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HOLY CARP!!!
We used to go to the same farm every year to cut our tree in Maryland. But Xmas tree farms are pretty scarce in Florida. This year the prices skyrocketed because trees have to be transported in. They bring them in on the day after Thanksgiving and by the end of Thanksgiving weekend they're dried out from being out in the Florida sun and heat.

This year we went to Home Depot because they were cheaper and fresher. Not very fun. And not very special.

We have some very fond memories of cutting the tree. One of my favorites was of course when the boys were younger. They were fighting over which tree to get and Nathan starts saying to Brian "Brian! I'll give you five bucks if we can choose this tree!" and Brian saying "Make it ten." And sure enough Nathan paid Brian $10 that year.

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RosemaryTwo
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Real -- from a local farm.

The sap, the needles, and the cursing brings the family closer.

I let my boys decorate it. The ornaments have no symmetry (sp?) at all.
"Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua
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Jack Frost
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We cut our own at a local farm.

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sue
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Fresh cut. I don't go for the hugely expensive cultured ones, usually get a fir; I like the sparse randomness of the branches. So much better for putting decorations on.

We've bought live trees a few times, but like Al, have no more room to plant trees in our yard!

Don't think I'd ever buy an artificial one, there's so many tree farms in this area, and it's just another commercial crop. they get chipped and put back in the ground after Christmas; it's all good. ^_^
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