Artificial Christmas Tree or Real Tree? And your reasoning for

[Pryderi]

choosing either one.

I prefer a real one. The smeill of the tree in the house brings back happy childhood memories. :)

[jane_pippin]

1. Fake because real trees don't come in silver aluminum.

Plus I can't have a real one in the apartment anyway.

[RetroLounge]

4. My silver aluminum with the color wheel

went away in the divorce...

Might end up with a real one this year.

:hi:

RL

[yellowdogintexas]

7. you know those things are back!! Saw them in Garden Ridge this week. And in

very weird colors too.

[jane_pippin]

8. I like real ones too, but it'd be impossible where we live now.

Aluminum ones are all over antique stores (which I'm sure you know anyway so I don't know why I even said that.) :D

[RetroLounge]

9. Yeah, I see them...

but they have too much baggage with them for now...

:hi:

RL

[Pryderi]

2. Does anyone have environmental reasons?

[XemaSab]

22. Yes

There are a LOT of little trees in the woods here, so the woods won't miss it.

Also, I don't like the idea of having some Chinese toxic waste pile in the house.

[lizziegrace]

3. Fake

allergic to everything except maple trees and feathers. The smell of pine oil sends my lungs into spasms.

x(

[redqueen]

5. Fake.

Cause I borrow it from someone, so it's free.

I'd like a real one though, maybe next year.

[yellowdogintexas]

6. Artificial. For the following reasons:

1 Allergic to cedar, pine etc
2 Cats eat the real tree and barf it up
3. real trees also shed
4 I can't afford a real tree the size of my fake one
5. no new tree to buy every year

I do have fond memories of going out to my uncle's farm in Kentucky which was full of scrub cedar, and finding a tree of the size my mom wanted that particular year. It went up the Sunday before Christmas and came down New Year's Day.

It wasn't until my mom got an aluminum tree in about 1961 that we discovered the Christmas trees were making us all sneeze and cough and develop secondary infections.

[rurallib]

10. Fake - fire potential less.

[susanna]

11. Artificial.

Our late dog used to pee on the real ones. So artificial it was when she was alive (yep, a marking she, raised leg and all). Now that we have an artificial tree, it just seems wasteful not to use it. Though I do like the smell of a real tree and certainly miss it.

[Breeze54]

12. I LOVE a real one but to expensive. We now have a fake one now.

Besides, it's a real pain the ass cleaning up after a real one. I hate it.

[XemaSab]

16. You can get a tree-cutting permit for 10 bucks

:P

[tjwmason]

13. Real

because it's real.

[DarkTirade]

14. I much prefer real trees to fake ones

although for just plain decoration I can understand doing fake.

I've got a little 3 foot fake one that I'll pull out around the holidays, but for putting presents under you need a real one.

[XemaSab]

15. Real tree

:bounce:

[Lyric]

17. We have a lovely artificial one.

These were taken in 2005, but we still have the same tree and the same ornaments.





:hi:

[azmouse]

18. Artificial tree.

I don't want to tie a real tree to any of my cars to bring it home nor do I want the hassel of disposing of a real tree, plus the needles, watering, and fire risk of a real tree don't appeal to me.

[skygazer]

19. Live

A small tree in a tub that is planted outside later. I haven't done that for a few years - we haven't bothered with a tree at all - but that was a tradition for a while.

[flvegan]

20. Having a fake tree ruins the real tree job market.

:popcorn:

Sorry, I've been in GD.

[Deep13]

21. Real for several reasons.

1. It's a tree, not a toilet brush. The world is already too fake.

2. It is not made out of petroleum products in a Chinese factory.

3. Even though it has a service life of one year rather than say five, it will not sit in a landfill until humans are replaced with talking bugs.

4. If burned, it will not produce toxic smoke.

5. It has no toxic by-products of its manufacturing.

6. Christmas tree farms are not shopping malls, cluster houses or golf courses.

7. Christmas tree farms absorb green house gasses and are habitat for critters.

8. My Dad was a tree farmer. He bought it as retirement income and just for fun. There is now way he could have afforded a chemical factory to make fake ones. So there is that egalitarian consideration.

9. Trees smell good.

10. Discarded trees become habitat and food for critters.

[LeftyMom]

23. Fake tree: because it makes the baby Jesus cry.

No really, it's because the real kind trigger my allergies.

[tinymontgomery]

24. Started with real when younger

but have moved to fake since we travel a lot it makes it safer.

[shanti]

25. neither, i hate xmas

much to the consternation of my (grown) kids. bah humbug, lol! thanksgiving is the only holiday that matters to me, so i'm going all out today!

[AlCzervik]

26. A small fake one.

we used to get a giant real one but we don't have a place for it anymore. Anyhow i like the little one, it fits perfectly on a tabel top and i still put that big star on top.