Real or Fake

[summer_gphib]

We always have a real tree! The day after Thanksgiving we go up to a local tree farm, and take a horse drawn wagon out to find the perfect tree. They cut it and everything and then we go back and have hot apple cider! Too much fun!

:-)

[aephi alum]

Neither for me, I'm Jewish.

When I was growing up (my family is Catholic) we used to get a real tree every year. The things dropped needles like crazy. So, when my parents had the house re-carpeted (the new carpet had a thick pile), they decided, no more real trees - they didn't want to still be finding needles in June. So they got a small fake tree. They just recently got a new tree, with the lights built in - just plug it in, stick a few ornaments on it if you want, and you're done.

[ISUKappa]

I always grew up with a real tree so that's what we have now. In fact, we just got ours today: a 9' Frasier Fir that smells just heavenly. I can't wait to set it up and start decorating.

[EEKappa]

When I saw the title of this thread, it made me think of the Seinfeld episode with Teri Hatcher that just re-ran last week.

We do both: Years that we are home, we get the tallest real tree that will fit in our living room. And every other year we travel to visit my family for a week at Christmas, so we haul the one out of the basement and set it up. That way we don't come home to a dried-out tree and a pile of needles on the floor.

[mmcat]

we were real until two years ago when my mom decided to go fake. now they are well pleased and it looks very similar to the kind we used to have.

i just bought my mom a real one, literally
it's a small three foot tree sitting in a pot full of soil... i told her to plant it once christmas is over, we'll see how long it lasts in south texas

[bsp-mich24]

I've had both but like the smell of the live trees.

This year was the 1st time I went to a tree farm. It inexpensive and not too many needles on the carpet yet.

[CUGreekgirl]

When I was younger we had a little scrawny 6 ft fake tree. It seemed HUGE when I was younger but when we decided to put it up two christmases ago b/c mom had cancer and the bigger tree was too much work, I almost cried when i saw it. It was the most pathetic looking tree ever.

We have had a 9 ft, fake tree for the past 10 yrs and it is beautiful. Mom insists on putting colored lights on it, which I think looks a little ghetto. She is thinking about getting a new prelit one this year, but I told her she couldn't b/c they didn't come with colored lights.

But she informed me that she had already checked and the prelit ones do come with colored lights. Guess we'll have a ghetto fab christmas tree again this year.

[polarpi]

Originally posted by ZTAMich
We've always had a fake tree. Color-coded to show which branch goes where.

This is our house, too

We always had real trees up until the year we discovered I was highly allergic (after we had already cut it down and set it up in our house - lucky for our church, they got a free tree that year!)

I love our fake Christmas tree. It's almost an antique - my grandmother bought it back when my mom was a kid the day after Christmas (it's 32 years old). It stands probably around 7 feet tall - it just about touches the roof of our living room - it has "snow covered" tips, and the branches are color coded, and we've used it so much for so many years that the grooves for each branch on the pole are pretty worn out...we've got to see if we can find someone to "make" us a new pole, because you better believe I'll have this tree when I have my own home!

[leesek]

We always have a real tree or two.

We have a "family" tree that has colored lights and all the ornaments that my kids made, and we have a tree in the living room that has clear lights and gold and silver and burgandy ornaments and bows.

Last year I was only going to do one tree and my kids went ballistic!!!