2014 Christmas tree poll

real or fake tree

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GotWood

GotWood

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Maiden, NC
It happens every year, so I'll start


Real tree for me!
 
For same price as an expensive real tree, you can buy a fake and use the next 5-10 years. More money for beer and badassory!
 
No tree for me this christmas. I didn't take my tree down from last christmas until July this year. So I've seen enough of it for a while.
 
I've never actually had a real tree. We've had the same fake one at my parents house at least since I was born, and I know it's considerably older than that. It's still in amazing shape. I have a small 3 foot fake one for my house here in Troy.
 
Real Tree for me it drinks a quart of water a day at least for the first few weeks, got to keep it watered or get the broom out.
 
We have bought a real tree every year in the past. A few years ago we had a tree with bugs in it. They started hatching after a while. Bought a fake tree from Home Depot this year. It looks great and was only $200. The wife bought tree smelling wax for the lightbulb wax scent thing. Smells like a real tree in the house.
 
I have never had a fake tree. Probably never will. Loading up the family in the diesel and riding down to pick out a tree is tradition. Just did it tonight. Plus its a great excuse to run a chain saw in your front yard on a Sunday.
 
Taking my girls up to the mountains to pick a tree is a lot more fun than crawling up in the attic to bring down the fake free box.
When they are older and don't want to be around their parents anymore we will switch back to the fake one.
 
Would always rather have a real tree, but a fake one it is. We head to Florida anyway so fake fits the plan at home better.
 
Fake. I'm not afraid to admit I'm too damn lazy to water it.
(Actually the first tree I've put up since I booted the old bat out, right about 8 years now)
 
shawn said:
Real tree every year. Keeping them alive until epiphany is never a sure thing, but the fake ones are ugly. Plus, going to get a tree is part of the fun.
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Agree on the part of the fun but...
Unless you are buying balled and burlaped trees and replanting them (and to be fair you and Cyd are just cool, eco, and hippie enough to do this so I wont be surprise) you arent keeping them alive after you cut them down. Once you disconnect the root system , its dead.
 
Death is a process, not an event.
 
A human is dead before rigor mortis sets in. Same with the tree. It ceases to be able to oxygen fixate and photosynthesize when you cut it down. It just can maintain its needled for a while after death if you keep it thoroughly hydrated. A Living tree actually sucks water up through the roots to the top through bio process. Your tree in your stand absorbs some water to keep the cells hydrated.

You can soak a dead man in the river and he wont stiffen up but it dont mean he is alive.
 
No, but you can keep him cold and resuscitate him later.
 
I want to know the # of folks who have a real tree and indoor cats...............I've been there and done that and it wasn't fun but it was exciting :eek: from the smashed glass ornaments to the trees falling down and the tinsel hanging out of the cat's azz as it ran all over the house and furniture trying to outrun the silver string that followed it everywhere. Nothing says Christmas like a cat dragging shit and tinsel all over the living room. Oh, and I made her get the tinsel out of the cats azz cause I told her it would happen if she hung it on the tree but she did it anyway.:shaking:
 
Real tree. Gotta go pick one out and drink beer while decorating it. Just isn't the same dragging the old tree out of the attic and "fluffing" the "branches"
 
We have had a fake tree for a few years now. I like it except fluffing the branches, that sucks. We take the kids to go cut a tree with the mother-in-law, so we get to do that with them also.
 
Fake pre-lit tree for me. Fluffing the branches does suck, but not having to deal with all the watering and falling needles makes it worth it.
 
We had a fake tree every year until last year. I had the itch to get a real tree like I had growing up. We bought a beautiful tree that was almost 9 foot tall and had a 3 foot radius base. We bought a sturdy stand and I trimmed the bottom boughs off so we could get it in the stand. We strung the lights and garland and hung all the ornaments my wife had on it, most of which were collected over the years. It was set up in our master bedroom right in front of the window so that she could show it off.

That night at about 2 am, we hear this HUGE crash as the tree fell over and smashed about half her ornaments. We still don't know what happened to cause the tree to shift like that because we didn't have a cat any more and the dog was in his cage. Nobody was up (at least until the crash!) at that point, but let me just tell you between the loud crash right next to me and stepping on broken glass ornaments in bare feet, I was awake QUICK.
 
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