Real men buy REAL Christmas trees!!!

[junkyardfrog]

(Do any of you remember that Real Men book from about 27 years ago?)



Went out today and bought us a REAL Christmas tree! A California Redwood! Gonna have the biggest tree in the neighborhood in about 40 years....



It's actually alive in the container right now. After Christmas we will plant it outside next to the other three former Christmas trees. We got some of those first three trees when my sons were young. Now one of them must be over 40 feet tall. (The tree, not my son.)

Any of you ever get a living tree for Christmas?

[Doe, John]

yes, but it died then it fell over

[mid]

My Christmas Tree (when its up, which it isn't yet) lives on top of my Subwoofer. So you can forget any silly ideas about buying a real one, that's for sure.

[Laguna]

My Christmas Tree (when its up, which it isn't yet) lives on top of my Subwoofer. So you can forget any silly ideas about buying a real one, that's for sure.

...and about putting some stuff on it too, since it will fell of the moment you turn the subwoofer on. :wink:

[papageno]

Any of you ever get a living tree for Christmas?

I did. 8)
I was a kid and we went out in the snow on a nearby hill to get a small tree for Christmas.

[mickal555]

Always has been plastic

[TriangleMan]

Always had a fake tree and prefer it that way, I don't want to kill a real tree.

[Moose]

We usually end up getting a live (though cut) tree.

Personally though, while I prefer real for the look and scent, overall I would choose fake. The good ones look real enough. They aren't fire hazards. They're low maintainance. And fake trees, as a trend, means that fewer trees are cut overall.

[mid]

And fake trees, as a trend, means that fewer trees are cut overall.

Except that all my local Christmas trees come from the local Christmas tree farm, and are completely sustainable, plus I get a nice little pine forest on the outskirts of town that would otherwise be something dull.

However, given that I've got a pine sap allergy, maybe that's not as much of a benefit as it could be.

[ToSeek]

We used to have real trees, but we've had one or more insane cats in the house for the last few years who would trash anything like that, so we've done without entirely of late.

[frenat]

Every time I think of real trees, I hink of the opening scene to Christmas Vacation with Chevy Chase.

[Laguna]

Every time I think of real trees, I hink of the opening scene to Christmas Vacation with Chevy Chase.

We have a tree of that size in our garden.
Maybe I should take it in?

[iFire]

I've always had a real tree. Sometimes we've gone to our Church's Christmas tree lot, and other times we've gone to this tree farm and cut it down ourselves.

[Zachary]

Always a real tree - synthetic ones just don't cut it with me

[zebo-the-fat]

Remember, the Acrylic is an endangered species!

[teddyv]

Any of you ever get a living tree for Christmas?

Do you mean one with roots or just a cut tree?

Have had both real and fake. Much prefer real/cut ones. Hate the really bushy spruces, prfer the somewhat scraggly "Charlie Brown" Douglas Fir trees. At least you can hang ornaments on them.

[Tobin Dax]

My family would always get a real (cut) tree. Since I'm not going home this year, though, and since I'm a grad student, I need to go buy a decent-sized fake tree and some cheap ornaments and lights for it sometime soon, here. (I'll be darned if I'm gonna sweep up pine needles in my apartment, though I will miss the smell. Hmm, now I'm tempted. :-k )

[AndrewGPaul]

Maybe you could hang some of those in-car air-fresheners on the fake tree?

[Nicolas]

We used to have real trees, but we've had one or more insane cats in the house for the last few years who would trash anything like that, so we've done without entirely of late.

Cats are inherently insane (and therefore I LOVE them)

[Nicolas]

Maybe you could hang some of those in-car air-fresheners on the fake tree?

I think you've all seen truckers with a fake small christmas tree in their truck. Well I've seen some with a complete festoon of those "magic tree"/"wunderbaum"/"arbre magique" air-fresheners on their windshield instead!!

[Vega115]

Always a real tree. My mom makes us get one, and I wouldnt have it any other way. A fake one, to me..makes xmas seem..well...fake And my mom says that she has it in her will that once we move out, we (me and my sis) must come back each year to get a real tree. Were 99.9% sure she's kidding.

ALso...i personally consider it Blasphemous against the spirit of xmas to get a fake tree!

[Tobin Dax]

Maybe you could hang some of those in-car air-fresheners on the fake tree?

I was waiting for someone to say that. (Had the thought myself, but I decided to save the bad joke for someone else.) Maybe I could just put that on top instead of a star or angel. :-k Probably only if company's coming over, though.

[mickal555]

Always a real tree. My mom makes us get one, and I wouldnt have it any other way. A fake one, to me..makes xmas seem..well...fake And my mom says that she has it in her will that once we move out, we (me and my sis) must come back each year to get a real tree. Were 99.9% sure she's kidding.

ALso...i personally consider it Blasphemous against the spirit of xmas to get a fake tree!

What if chistmas trees don't grow were youo live and its summer and hot and....... no one would ever think of selling them becaus no one would bye one and and............ wait I think I could sell them. A niche market