Colleen
Every year I look at the prices for real trees and say, no way! I'm just not willing to spend over $40.00 for a tree just to have the pine tree smell so I can throw it away a few weeks after buying it.
Do you buy only real every year? Why?
Do you use only an artificial tree every year? Why?
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country bumpkin
I love the smell of a real Christmas tree, but on my budget, I find that a $ 2:50 cent spruce candle smells like a real Christmas tree. All I have to do is close my eyes and let my olfactory nerves kick in, it's like camping in a spruce forest. LOL
| 12 years ago. Rating: 18 | |
lindilou
I take my girls and we go out to the bush where I actually will climb up a smallish tree to TOP it, thus not killing it!! Last year we encountered a Sasquatch...for the first time!!! He/she was observing us while we/I maintained my composure! Aha! Whoop whoop! Merry Christmas!!
| 12 years ago. Rating: 18 | |
hector!!!!!
And Tommyh, NO, we did not invite that massive being for Shnog!! Squatches do not do this sort of thing!! We left 20 green apples, a big bunch of White Sage, and some seashells and a few dry flowers for their kid!!! Whoop Whoop!!! ;D
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lindilou, your tree will look beautiful, with the deco on it. I just love to see all beautiful Christmas decorations outside the homes of some Americans, amazing. Sadly, I have only ever seen them on line, or on TV.
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bustieone
I do not know of the rest of mankind, but we had real trees until about 5 yrs. ago. My wife still is in mourning over the lack of a real tree! What I think is that the IDEA of a live tree, and the MEMORIES are more an attraction than the tree itself, it may smell nice, but so what, that isn't the real reason why we had them for so long. Now both my married children, with little ones of their own, get real trees, and they thus are reliving their childhood memories of the family going out and getting one at the tree farm. I think both paid $40-$50 for theirs. We still had real trees even when our kids left the nest. They were harassed by their mom to come and pick it, and then come home and decorate it. Now with their families, she doesn't bother them any more, so we have an artificial tree.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 17 | |
Dollybird
We have an artificial Christmas tree which has been put up over the past five years and again this year, if hubby is in mood to do so, if not, I doubt if I will.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 17 | |
ClevelandRick
As a young boy of the 60's,that was the only thing my brothers and I could get our drunk father to do with us,was go out and get the tree,and we sure did have to bug him a lot to get him to do that,but he always did.As the years went by,I stuck with the real tree for years until about 10 years ago,and I got a artificial one,but to be honest I have not put one up the last couple of years :( I hope to get back in the mood this year,for I do love that time of year :) BTW,we have a guy here who takes over a closed down dept. stores parking lot every year and every tree is $19.99,nice trees,probably some of the 1st cut of the season,so they may be a little dry toward the end of Dec. but they are nice trees.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 17 | |
Jack Large
30.8 million live Christmas trees were purchased in the United States in 2011
We have been using the same artificial tree for around eight years, because I am too old to go and cut one down. ;)
| 12 years ago. Rating: 17 | |
I know they'll clear a fenced off pasture in no time flat!!
Tommyh
We have had our tree since the kids were little.(The youngest is now 40.) Christmas just wouldn't be the same without it.Now the grand kids have a great time decorating it. We just dug it out from under the steps ready for Xmas tree decorationg day next wekend.Very exciting!! That's when Xmas really starts for us.
Merry Christmas Colleen.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 16 | |
robertgrist
We have been packing and unpacking the same plastic tree for fifteen years. We are surrounded by living trees of every kind and description and ski lodges are just a few miles away north and south. Our neighbors decorate the trees in their yard. Walmart had trees from the day before Thanksgiving, Last year it was October 15th when the first Christmas trees showed up. I prefer to observe other people in their Christmas frenzy rather than participating personally. The plastic tree we have says…ok, I have a tree, so don’t bother me…yea,yea,yea and Merry Christmas to you too. I know that’s rather droll, but I do laugh and joke and go to dinners, but to be honest I’M HERE FOR THE DESSERT.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 16 | |
millie111
A real tree..it has to be a real tree..childhood memories and all that!:-¬...something lovely and a bit crazy about having a tree in your living room..but it`s a must!:-)
| 12 years ago. Rating: 16 | |
We had real each year as a child but it was smallish and sat on a decorated packing crate.
Over here, everyone's has to be at minimum, 6ft. lol
daren1
Dardaigh
When the kids were little, we used to get a real one.
A decent sized, full tree will run you anywhere from
$60-80 around here, these days. Plus you have to remember
to keep it watered all the time.
My artificial one serves it's purpose and I'm happy with it.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 14 | |
This reminds me of a very old joke I heard Dave Allen relate one time on the telly...he said, "This is the only time of the year that you can say...'and the same to you'...and get away with it." :)
jhharlan
We found our tree on someone's curb a few years ago. It came with lights and is quite pretty. We even stored it doing our recent move. I have ornaments going back 25+ years......
| 12 years ago. Rating: 13 | |
witchway
About 20 years ago we bought a fake tree, but it looks so real that most people have to touch it to be able to tell. Paid $ 20.00 for it on closeout, what a deal! I do like real trees but I'm highly allergic to pine trees.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 11 | |
(Am I driving you nuts about the cake yet? LOL)
sunnyB
