here is my question:
Which Christmas tree do you prefer, a real or a fake one?
please use comment to answer and discuss. Miss Santa prefer the real one. D:
the real means a live tree, with its roots intact from a local grower, and then replant it in your yard once the holiday has passed. This is the most eco-friendly way to enjoy a Christmas tree is to buy a live tree.
the fake means plastic trees, they are re-used every year and thus don’t generate the waste of their real counterparts, but fake trees are made with polyvinyl chloride (or PVC, otherwise known as vinyl), one of the most environmentally offensive forms of non-renewable, petroleum-derived plastic.
and a song about little tree:
[little tree]
By E. E. Cummings
little tree
little silent Christmas tree
you are so little
you are more like a flower
who found you in the green forest
and were you very sorry to come away?
see i will comfort you
because you smell so sweetly
i will kiss your cool bark
and hug you safe and tight
just as your mother would,
only don’t be afraid
look the spangles
that sleep all the year in a dark box
dreaming of being taken out and allowed to shine,
the balls the chains red and gold the fluffy threads,
put up your little arms
and i’ll give them all to you to hold
every finger shall have its ring
and there won’t be a single place dark or unhappy
then when you’re quite dressed
you’ll stand in the window for everyone to see
and how they’ll stare!
oh but you’ll be very proud
and my little sister and i will take hands
and looking up at our beautiful tree
we’ll dance and sing
“Noel Noel”
I’m not keen on cutting down trees anymore–I have a fake one. It’s small but it’s pretty. And loaded with lights and cherished ornaments, it does the job. I have fake garland too. In spite of plastic, my house is warm, festive and inviting and so far no one has said “ewww, can’t believe you have plastic.” Maybe they are all being nice about it because I am old.
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We’ve got a fake one. It’s easier for me to climb!
we have both! I got a potted one and will put in garden after! xxx
Real, I’m sorry but I can’t take those plastic trees it just doesn’t smell like Christmas .
I don’t want a real tree for a simple, practical reason. I hate getting those dang needles out of the carpet. We had a real tree one year and 2 years later when we moved we were still trying to get the needles out.
But I do like the idea of buying one with roots and replanting. Nice idea I hadn’t heard of before.
I have a little white fake one but over the years have had real; both living and cut. The living is the best optiion but the cut ones that come from tree farms are not bad. The farmers plant new trees and rotate their cutting so while they are growing it’s good for enviroment, creates jobs, and in my community we recycle them for use in wildlife habitat and mulching. No matter the type we know they bring beauty and joy
I am all for a real tree. This year, it even has a strong scent! I can’t say I haven’t considered a fake for convenience– or even because it would be more economical but i just can’t do it. If I go fake, it would have to be REALLY fake and not a bad imitation of a real tree— you know silver foil or white– truly artificial. For Christmas, when my daughter was six I set up a bubble gum pink tree along side her bubble gum pink doll house and bubble gum pink Christmas accessories. She continues to set it up in her bedroom—it is about 3-1/2 4 feet.
So bring on the needles and watering maintenance, go real!!
We have a nice fake 7ft tree that no one ever guesses is fake. Even last night my in laws, who have seen our tree for 8 yrs in a row, had to ask if it was real or not. It’s easy to put up and put away, and we don’t have to really maintain it much.
Growing up we always had real trees and wreaths. I loved that smell throughout the house the first few days it was home. I miss it often times, but being the busy family always on the go, we take advantage of our tree. I do spray it with a pine scent that I love from Bath and Body Works, and it makes me feel better about the plastic tree.
I did see someone on TV talking about the real trees in pots the other night; bringing them in from outside a few days before the holiday, then replanting them back in the yard as soon after. It’s a lovely idea.
Perhaps when I am 99 years old. When I can no longer deal with needles and maintenance then I might, possibly, mebbe, well – I doubt it, have an artificial tree..
Loved your e.e. cummings poem.
This year, as every year, we will adorn a local tree. They have Christmas tree farms in this area and after the season is over our trees are recyled back. V.
The real one, but not cut (killed). My mum usually buys little ones with roots and then plants them in her yard.
I prefer a real one but for practical reasons, like so many others, we have a fake tree.
I will not spend my hard earned money on ‘Real Tree Scent’, as some will though!
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If I have one at all it must be REAL. Charlie is out searching for one even now. Fa la la la lah! Jo @ Let’s Face the Music
Real tree! For the smell…
Real. Smell, atmosphere of fairy tale, freshness.
At the risk of committing a pun, I pine for a real tree. The primary reason for not sticking to tradition is the small chap living in the house, who is extremely carefree and occasionally given to tipping things experimentally. Perhaps as his reason develops we’ll be able to get back on the preferred side of the line.
Self-defensively, I will mention that plastics are somewhat less culpable when the thing they’re made of is MEANT to hand around for long periods; shopping bags are the devils own onions, but durable household items are… marginally forgiveable. I hope.
I love the smell of a live one. The low lying branches we cut off and use for decorations on mantles and book shelves. Each year its different to decorate. Any holes bends just add character to the tree. As long as there are vacum cleaners for the needles I’ll take a live one.
Great post. We used to buy a tree from the boy scouts…you know, “support the cause”. Then we went eco-friendly and bought the “buy real but plant it out in the yard when done” tree. Then a few years ago we succumbed and bought the “fake tree” and just re-use it every year. We are teling ourselves that we are being kinder to the environment this way. Truth is, it’s just way “easier” to do this. On a side note, of the 6 or 7 times we tried to plant out the tree into the yard, we have had at least 2 “failures” where the tree didn’t survive. That hurt.
This year as my husband and I were slogging through the mud to cut our Christmas tree, I counted that we had been visiting the same tree farm for at least 32 years and possibly a few more. We started going to this farm before our three children came along and I have a picture of me in full glory at the tree farm a week or so before my December 4th baby arrived. That baby (my second son) is now 28 years old. I thought about all those years of fun with the kids and how with the passage of time they are all grown and off doing their various things. It has come full circle and we are back to the two of us again for the first time in years… until the grandchildren show up, I suppose. There is no substitute for a living tree decorated for Christmas. Real trees forever!
real tree all way the way
I definitely prefer a real one–the smell of the pine, the honest feeling of life…and often then death…being in your home. Also, we always had real ones growing up. But these days I don’t have enough space, nor enough time to clean up after the real thing, so I have tiny little odes to trees placed throughout my little space. But I was thinking of getting some branches or something just to add some pine-scented Christmas love to my home.
I love all christmas trees – even the cheesy tinsel trees. They are all fun! Thanks for the reminders to be environmentally aware.
I’m terribly allergic to the real deals, so put me down for the “realest” looking fake tree that I can find.
I’ve had both and can go either way. During the holiday season you go to visit loved ones, not their trees.
Definitely a live tree – my husband won’t have it any other way. We’ve got to get all dressed up in our winter coats, choose the perfect tree, cut it down, drag it into the living room and then meticulously decorate it. It’s all about tradition. Diane
Real for sure! Its a Christmas tree that grows outdoors year long and for the holidays it comes indoors pot base and all. I tell you the smell alone reminds me of cinnamon
When our kids were little we always wanted a freshly harvested Christmas tree. Now that they are grown we have a wonderful “fake” tree that looks real — my wife just sprays pine cone scent on the room before company arrives and everyone thinks the tree is real.
When I can I prefer the real deal, presently we have a fake though.Lovely poem,thanks for checking out my blog.Keep up the good work.
It has to be real!!!! The only debate is whether or not to flock(fake snow) it!
Real, real, real!
For me real tree is the right tree. We get our tree from my dad’s forest, so we don’t have to pay anything. It isn’t bushy kind. Bushy kind trees I see all the time on TV (shows made in USA/North America). Here in Finland trees aren’t like that. Not even if they are farmed. I don’t know why. In EU and therefor in Finland it could be forbidden to use some kind of things that are used in USA to grow trees.
But yeah! Real tree, that’s the one. And the smell is so good.
With Love SonyaBlue.
I don’t understand why people like the “bushy” kinds, how are you supposed to hang ornaments on them? We cut down a tree off of our familys property every year, usually taking out one that needs to be thinned out anyway. They aren’t ever perfectly symmetrical, but I don’t care, I love them!
We own an artificial tree (the word “fake” seems a bit too harsh, because our tree looks perfectly real, and it holds represents special meaning and Christmas spirit all the same). We have chosen this kind of tree because of the following reasons
1. Cost. We cannot afford to purchase a real tree every year. A cut tree that will die in 2 weeks costs $60. A live tree with a root ball costs over $100 and we have no room in our yard to plant one of these year after year. Our artificial tree (claimed to be made with some kind of new non-poluting product) cost only $70 on sale as a one-time cost to our family. In these hard economic times, we feel that was a fiscally responsible purchase.
2. Fire Hazard. Some good friends lost their entire home and their beloved dog due to a fire originating in their real Christmas tree.
3. Mess: Like others above have mentioned, a real tree drops needles all over and drips sap.
4. I Love Trees: Our world needs more of them, living and breathing and growing in nature, and not being “bred” for profit. Thousands of trees (whether cut or potted) die every year because of a one-day holiday. To me, this seems like a selfish and cruel waste.
Those are my main personal reasons. I respect others who love to have a real tree. I grew up with a live tree every year. It was a beloved tradition to go out and pick one and cut it down and drag it home every year on Mom’s birthday (Dec. 8). We loved the fresh-cut smell in our home. My mother insisted that was the ONLY kind of tree anyone should have. But, times have changed. She has a cute little artificial tree now that looks beautiful and does not require the hassle and stress of stringing lights up every year. She lights a pine-scented candle when company is coming over, and she is happy. In the end, a tree in our living room is not what Christmas is all about. It’s the true reason for the season, and our willingness to honor the Savior’s birth, that really counts.
What a great reply! Could not have said it better myself, so I will simply say, “AGREED” instead. It does seem to be incredibly wasteful, regardless of whatever recycling of trees takes place in January, to kill millions of trees each year. I’ve never had a real tree and can honestly say that I never will. It’s about decorating your tree as a family, and spending time together, that counts. I don’t understand the “smell” argument at all. My house smells like baking for a lot of the month, and on the day itself, Christmas dinner, and that’s plenty of “smell” for us.
In my opinion, the tradition of donating money or volunteering at a soup kitchen during the holiday season, to feed those in need nearest to us, is a far more important tradition to pass on to our children.
I prefer the fake tree because I can use it year after year:)
Since my wife has been faking her orgasms for almost a decade now, it’s really got me into the whole “fake-o-rama’ thing, and I’ll be buying a tree that doesn’t even try to be real, but still does just enough to make me believe it’s christmas. I’ll call the tree “Darling”.
We don’t have room for a tree (real or otherwise) especially at the moment as we are moving and there are boxes EVERYWHERE! But usually I have a couple of twigs painted white, in a vase, with tiny little baubles to decorate…
I guess you would say a fake one although my tree is not the plastic ones you speak of here. Mine is a wrought iron metal ornament tree that I decorate for all the different seasons so I use it all year long.
I love real trees, but I grew allergic, so we switched to a fake tree in the early 90s. We have the same one, and it has held up well.
Nice looking fake one!
I’ve always loved real trees, but as I’ve gotten older and starting thinking more about how to celebrate the holiday with my kids. We’ve started a new tradition in our family. Instead of trees and ornaments, we celebrate by decorating our home with lights and ribbons. So one year, we made a tree by hanging lights down from the ceiling to the floor in our living room. Then we have vanilla scented candles lit and drink warm cocoa or tea while sitting in the dark room with many twinkling lights. Its just a special reminder that this world is made of light, wonder and love all year ’round.
I prefer the live trees but my cat’s destroyed the last one. Fake for now although I’d rather have one made from recycled paper…nevermind
I would prefer a real one and afterwards, I want to replant it, too.
I like both!
Real! Take the allergy pill, teach your kid not to eat dirt, and appease the inner tree hugger by planting a tree in the new year!
What a zany blog you run, here. As for the tree: real. But I burn mine after use. Not because it’s environmentally friendly or safe, but because it’s fun.
the eternal Christmas question, sticky sap or truly ever green Christmas tree, I vote sticky sap
I love real Christmas Trees, but I like them outside with snow on, so my inside tree is fake. It is pretty though.
Although a real Christmas tree is very beautiful, but not environmental protection, so I prefer to choose the fake one.Merry Christmas!
You too!
I like a real tree. But, I have gotten to be allergic. So I can’t breathe for a few days out of the year. The price we pay.
It was really bad. But no matter how to be happy life, believe in god for you close a window at the same time will open doors for you. I wish you good luck.
Merry Christmas!
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Merry christmas!
That’s a really pretty poem! Loved it
I think I would prefer a real one, but only if I weren’t living alone and had someone to help me put it up, then clean after the holidays are over 
I’m OK with a fake tree, but my wife prefers a real tree, so we get cut Christmas trees. I had a real tree around 1997, I had bought my first house the year before and figured the backyard could use another tree and we could decorate it every year. Samantha, the dog had other ideas… she kept digging it up until it died!
Very sweet! I love that Charlie Brown picture! I do love a real tree, but I must admit we have had a fake pre-lit tree for a while now, it is easier. One day I will get a real one that I can then repot at the end of the season, which I never knew that people do that! I learned something new! thanks!
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Merry Christmas!
Thanks for the Blog visit and I love the real tree, but can’t get one every year so I have a fake one as well on the “off ” season…the real ones are cut, no replant, but I get to turn it in for a fresh sappling afterwards…
I’d still go with real, and be sure to plant one to replace the one I use this year. Still don’t have the tree up… Sigh
I love Christmas! My christmas tree for several years has been fake, but I do like the smell of real ones. They are just too big & expensive! Mine is there for me every year
hehe,Maybe you can plant a Christmas treein the yard!
Merry Christmas!
Fake tree here. We had a real one our first year, and spent most of the season removing the cat from it.
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Merry Christmas!
yeha, fake Christmas tree more save trouble, but I think more of its recycling.
Merry Christmas!
love that poem.
I’m glad you like it.Merry Christmas!
For most of our lives we always had a ‘real’ tree and thought we would never have considered a ‘fake’ one but alas came one year …the last we bought a real one ..when once again the needles were falling so fast even the first day we would bring it in. And then it became a safety thing where we would be afraid to leave the lights on very long as it would dry up more.
Now I do know they have Tree farms that especially grow trees for Christmas but we didn’t live near ‘cut your own’ tree down for many of those years.
Hence that next year we did buy an artificial…okay ‘fake’ tree….Diane
ah, I’d love to have a real tree, but allergies force us to have a fake one.
Potted real tree. It’s the best combination up to the point that it grows and you have to replant it and buy another potted one and do the same a.s.o. Provided you manage to keep it alive. But this comes with experience.
I’m a nature fan, so it’s the best solution for me 
While I love the smell of a real tree it always breaks my heart to see dead discarded trees after Christmas. So, fake it is!
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I go with the fake one, maybe because it’s low maintenance!
And that poem is so beautiful..
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Real tree!! And e.e. cummings is one of my all time faves. this is a wonderful poem…Noel Noel.
Christmas to me means a real tree for me.
Here in south africa where I live, we don’t have real christmas trees so I have to settle for a fake
. A real christmas tree to me would make it more special.
I love cummings and I plan on using that poem as one of my beautiful things just a bit nearer Christmas, on the day we go out to get our, real, tree. Love the debate above. We once suggested getting a fake but the ‘children’, all grown-up, were horrified
Happy Christmas to you
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Thank you for visiting and liking my blog. I love the ‘little tree’ poem by e.e. and have always had a soft spot for Linus and his little tree. This year my daughter and I have decorated our very own, little Chanukah tree.
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i will vote for the real one, indeed!
Th3Mirr0r
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I’ll take a fake tree please, no chopping anything and it lasts a lifetime..
Thank you for visting my blog! I enjoyed reading the poem. Christmas tree…real or fake? Hmmmm, well there’s nothing like having the real thing; enjoying that smell but I guess sometimes for the sake of time and hassle I like the fake pre-lit trees. Enjoying your blog!
Thank God for trees, It’s a real tree for us for it’s beauty and for the sake of environmental stewardship. Merry Christmas everybody!
(pls correct it’s to its) lol, thanks
Oh real of course – though I do have a fake one too! Thanks for posting one of my favourite poems.
Thanks for liking my posts and viewing my blog – the only likes I ever really get are the ones linked to my friend’s blog, http://bethanyelizabeth10.wordpress.com, so thank you for the time it took to look at mine. My answer is I have a real one and it was the best decision my mum and dad have made in a long time – that and to send me to my school. This year is the first time me and my brother have experienced having a real tree at Christmas, and I think everyone should have that feeling of magic and excitement.
thanks for the stop at my blog. the wife and i have been ‘fake tree’ supporters for years. we just can’t see cutting trees just to have them die slowly over two weeks in our front room.
-mike
I love the scent of a real tree, but keep a fake skinny German style tree that looks more like a cross between a victorian and german. It is skinny with hardly any foliage and not wide, so you can see all the ornaments. It is a bit weird looking but I like it
Real! But I live in a condo so we have a second hand fake tree. It does the trick but I miss the fresh christmas tree smell.
Such a wonderful ancient tradition to bring nature in during the cold northern winters.
There are so many traditions from different cultures that we take and make our own. It is amazing to know that there are farms just for cut trees, as well as ones with roots.
I know some folks who do go the fake route and then never take the tree down redecorating it for different holidays. Others who don’t have space have little ceramic trees with or without lights.
I like waking through our neighborhood and seeing the different lights in the neighborhood – may we all enjoy our different traditions and welcome peace, love and joy to everyone.
Very nice post! Have a Happy Christmas!
I have several, all are fake. Real ones do not always grow well in my part of the USA. I enjoy my ceramic trees. My “main” tree is green plastic. My favorite tree is aluminum. I light it with the rotating color wheel off to the side.
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As far as Christmas trees go: Real, but cut. (The fragrance of Christmas!) This keeps the Christmas tree growers in business–it’s like harvesting any other crop.
Enjoyed the poem very much!
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Anything eco-friendly rocks my boat, so yeah….
Sorry to say, but for a couple of years my selection has been the fake tree. You see real trees are really expensive over here and I don’t own a backyard. Sometimes I get sad for the trees because people around here buy those and at the end of the season OMG! to the garbage they go. They gave their live for nothing. I know that I just wrote a Story about a Painted Tree and I really think that’s a cool idea, but I already got my fake tree, when I got it, back then I didn’t got this cool idea. I hate when good ideas arrive a little bit late.
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I love love the real ones…but just don’t have the patience for them anymore☺
Laurie
I do like a real one … but there are some very good looking others around too ! so I might be tempted next year …
The real deal of course. For me a fake tree means a fake Christmas.
would love to have a real tree to plant…but we rent our property so that’s a no go…my fake tree is made of hot pink tinsel, not vinyl…incredibly tacky…we’ve had it for 4 years and plan on having it indefinitely…I dare say it is fun every year to find or make a new ornament or 2 that is fabulous and stands out against the pink! Th Flamingos tend to blend right in but I hang them anyway…we’re a bit outside the box when it comes to celebrations…my daughters tree is made of black tinsel with blue lights…I guess the apple really doesn’t fall far from the tree!
Love the e.e. Cummings poem : always thoughtful stuff from that poet. For me has to be real tree!
We used to always have real Xmas trees. Every year we’d go find one, get it home, size it to the house – after Xmas we’d clear up all the mess of the pine needles all over the place, then out to the rubbish bin it would go.
But for the last 22 years we’ve had this one plastic tree – 6′ 6″ and it’s as good today as it was when bought. So environmentally pretty good I’d say. AND it’s wider and better made than any of today’s ones – so there!
How about both? Usually we put lights up on a big blue spruce we have outside in front of our house. Each year it grows a little bigger, and we have to add a few more lights. Inside we use an artificial tree and change the decorations each year. (One of the kid’s favorites was the year we decorated with “Beany Babies” we had stowed away in a box in the garage.) I also like those tiny “Charlie Brown” trees they sell at the grocery stores, and usually get one for the office.
Love this. Decorate the real tree outside, where it can live on after the holidays, and have a fake one inside. Best of both worlds.
I only want a real christmas tree – I just need to breath and smell the tree – otherwise it won’t feel the same
I LOVE a real tree – the smell of pine is divine and the thought of knowing that it will continue to grow once re-planted is warming to the soul. We did that last year! This year we did something a bit different
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Fake because I am afraid of it catching fire and I hate digging up needles at Easter!
Real. We live in Christmas tree country and they don’t cost too much. Plus, they smell heavenly. I don’t even mind finding needles in the carpet months later. They remind me of the great Christmases we’ve had in this house.
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I have to say, my vote is for a fake tree. My family has never had a real tree, but I’ve visited friends who have. A real tree is very special at Christmas time, so I can see the magic it brings! We have a cat & a small dog, so them eating the needles concerns me. Also the sheer weight of it worries me with the animals. Merry Christmas!
i’ve got a couple of fake ones. one day, i hope to get a real one into the house.
I love real tree, but not possible to afford to have one when you are living in a tiny apartment! Fake stands out in these situations!
Fake because I feel sorry about using a real one just for a month…
I have a fake one. Although a real one may make the house smell nice, you need to sweep up the fallen pin needles pretty often. I like the convenience of a fake one. I’ll just use room spray to achieve the holiday smell.
My Christmas tree this year is my baby pine nut tree. It doesn’t quite smell like the traditional cut tree, but I think it’s prettier.
we have a real tree, but no root ball – we cut one off our property, and use this as a time to do a teeny bit of thinning. So we often do NOT have a perfect tree, but one that needed to go.
Love the smell of fresh balsam.
Who wouldn’t want to care for another living thing sharing it’s beauty with us its last days? Sure, I know that cutting one down and putting it in a living room isn’t the kindest thing to do (said the tree hugger), but we make sure another is planted in its place. Win win.
Real… fun reading the comments, though; loved the one about the wife and the fake orgasms
Always,
leorah_MF
Real smells nices, but fake saves trees! & That is much more important
x
We have a fake tree because: 1. I don’t want to cut a tree down when we already remove far too many in this world. 2. They are a fire hazard and my youngest daughter is fearful that we may have a fire in the house while we are sleeping. 3. There are allergies in our family. But we do string lights on two of our trees in front of our home and that is quite lovely.
I’d prefer a real one for the smell of it and the sensation of having something natural inside the house, but I prefer a plastic one for economic reasons. That and the fact that it feels wrong to hang lights on something natural!!
When I was a kid I spent 18 days in hospital one Christmas. I was allergic to the real tree my parents had put up that year. So, fake trees were always used when I was growing up. Now, I don’t bother to put anything up. It just doesn’t feel like Christmas in the southern hemisphere.
I always grew up with a real tree and loved it! However, my husband is seriously allergic to pine. My MIL bought a small, real pine table centerpiece and just that made him red eyed and wheezy for days while visiting (like, borderline anaphalactic reaction wheezy). He walks into my parent’s house (real tree people) and immediately starts sneezing. So, the past two years, I had purchased three cute metal, twig looking reindeer, and I put them on the mantle and decorated them instead
Eventually, we’ll probably get a fake tree since we’ve got a baby on the way and want him/her to experience the presents under the tree gig, but until then, I decorate my reindeer.
Great topic!
I prefer a real tree! Growing up, my Grandma always used a potted Christmas tree. Though smaller than the traditional Christmas tree, I enjoy the potted version just as much!
Well, for us it is neither, we buy a cut tree every year. I do not care for a fake tree but we have never had the property to buy a real and plant, that would be my preferance honestly. I think it is wonderful when you can do that, but even if we had the space, I have never seen real trees for purchase where we live ? I have heard of them, but never seen there here in Texas. I think in Calif many years ago I saw some, but I did not know that was an option any more. Thanks for opening up that idea, maybe once we buy our next house we will have some space to plant if we can find a live tree !!
Fake..go green, save the trees
xo Natasha
For many years I had real trees, I loved the scent of the tree in the house. After seeing people dumping them on the sides of the roads as the trash men would pick them up I changed my mind.
I’ve had an artificial tree for a number of years now, makes for a lot less waste.
I have a real one this year
I like the real trees, fake just doesn’t do it for me:)
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I prefer real trees, but use a fake one. I’m surrounded by beautiful trees and live among giant redwoods, spruce and douglas fir, to name a few conifers. If I had an extra special tree, it would be a feather tree, like the antique ones, except that it would be six feet tall.
We go back and forth depending on where we’re living. In Hawai’i we had a tiny apartment and I bought a white fake tree decorated with colorful leis for the counter. This year we’re full time rv’ing and have a tree outline on our fridge with ornaments hung from it!
Ma and I have a 5 foot fake tree that I bought from the Christmas Tree shop last year during my lunch hour. We have a lot of good memories associated with the tree because when I bought it, I impulsively called my mom and told her to meet me at the little sushi joint after I got out of work. We then went shopping for ornaments and garlands and fun was had by all. All the while, I am walking through town, in a suit, carrying a 4.5 ft box like a battering ram. (We don’t have a car, so I had to carry it everywhere) It was really great!
Oh, I love here!
No tree.
It never survives with two crazy cats in the house.
I love real Christmas trees. I love the smell and the fact that there is something “real” in my house. I love the tree and the joy it brings. I love having to try to figure out its “personality” and how it is going to lovingly hold my ornaments. I love the care that it requires.
But I have so many ornaments, I can see the draw of an artificial tree because it can hold so many more ornaments and its branches won’t bend.
I was scrolling quickly through the comments and basically someone said, maybe when they are old. I think that might happen to me too. When I am old and I don’t want to deal with a “real tree”.
I would like a real tree. This year I’m thinking to buy a small Christmas tree in a pot. So, when it will be grown up I could plant it somewhere.
I prefer the real Christmas tree because it has a specific small… and I like to wake up, early in the morning and to feel the small of the tree coming from the next room…
I love the smell (and look) of a real tree…though when we’ve lived in areas with few trees we used a fake because of the cost. Thanks for the “like”!