Christmas trees

[janetlinda56]

In our house we always have an artifical Christmas tree, many people have real ones, so what do you have in your house, real or artifical ?

[susank]

I always have a real tree - usually as high a 16' tall. I also have an artificial one in my living room and then feather trees, gold trees and glass trees throughout the house. I guess you can see I love trees! I even have 8 smaller ones at our log cabin which we are going to Boxing Day. No - I'm not a nut I just love all the different types of trees out there.

[janetlinda56]

Wow, that sounds fantastic, it must take ages to put them up and decorate them all.

[lizanne]

Our tree is artificial, we have had the same one for over 20 years and it still looks brilliant. It's far too hot to have a real tree here. People that do can only keep them for four or five days and by then all the needles have dropped and they look pretty sad. The needles are very hard to clean up on carpet , they don't vacuum up very well and usually the stubborn ones have to be picked up by hand.

As we liked to put our tree up in early December and keep it up until the twelfth day after Christmas we have to go fake. We think it looks lovely though and we change the colour scheme for the baubles and trim from year to year. This year it's red and gold, last year was pinks and purples.

[StitchinGrandma]

Up until about four years ago I always insisted on a real tree. I LOVE having a real tree and going to the tree farm to pick it out. That has always been a Christmas tradition in going to the same tree farm since I was a baby. I passed that tradition on to my own children and until they all moved out I stood firm on that because they loved going to the tree farm as much as I did. I seriously miss going to the farm every year because it always put me into the holiday mood. The farm we went to is huge and has huge horses pulling a sleigh you can take a ride in or go out into the fields to pick out your own tree. They now have a petting zoo and even have reindeer. The newsletter this year said they even have a brand new baby reindeer. There's now a restaurant and homemade fudge and freshly made all day long cinnamon almonds and pecans, a gift shop with things from all over the world and a huge fireplace with a roaring fire going all the time.

Every year I say I really want to go back out to the farm even to just visit because since we stopped going I just don't have the same spirit of the holiday as I used to.

Our artifical tree really is a pretty one so I am happy with that as long as we can put it up earlier.

[Emma]

We only ever have real. In my 22yrs, I remember once when money was tight, we decorated the wall behind the fire(tiled in the shape of a tree kind of). Every other time has been real. There's just something about a real tree.

[craftmama]

this year we have a real one, but bought an artificial tree "after Christmas" a few years back, put it up the following years and finally realized.....I need a bigger house to put that tree in. It takes up half the living room. (probably why it was still in the stores after Christmas). In order to get a real tree in S. FL, you go to the local Home Depot and pick one that was cut down a few days before and shipped here. wish we could go to a tree farm someday. Don't miss the weather though. It is 82 and partially cloudy today. expecting rain later.

[susank]

For all who worry about needles - I don't know if you can get them everywhere but we get a Fraser fir tree - the needles don't fall off!!!! It's the third year we have had one and they are great. Because we get real we usually only get it 2 weeks before Christmas but this year because of my husband's surgery we got it 2 weeks earlier. It's still great. It takes a lot of water every day but no needles. I would highly recommend it. Even our local grocery stores sell them now for about $40 - our larger ones are about $60 at the farm we go to - I think it's a pretty good deal. Very pretty!