Real Christmas tree or artificial Christmas tree?
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10 (40%) |
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8 (32%) |
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| No tree | |
7 (28%) |
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I have two cats. 
It's the perfect size to hang all my favorite ornaments on, about 4 ft high. The lights glow, Father Winter stand atop it, and all kinds of memories are on that "tree."
The kids are long grown, but when they were little and I was poor I used to take them to the Xmas tree lot and tell my little boy that we'd be getting "a biiig tree, as tall as you!" He really liked that. 
There's a time and a place for everything.
but this year's version is already raining needles.
It's gonna be a Christmas stalk and bare branches by the 25th.
Oh well, at least we won't accidentally throw out any ornaments. They'll be easy to find, without any needles hiding them.
Sid
[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I bought this adorable, 18-inch "evergreen" tree with color-changing fiberoptics worked into its branches more than 10 years ago for a song.
It's a little lopsided and sparse, too small for other ornaments, and the cats, after sniffing it over when it's brought out each year, leave it alone thereafter.
My kids laugh at it and tease me, and periodically try to get me to replace it with something "nicer," but I love it and won't give it up.
My parents went from really awful looking real trees (true Charlie Brown classics) to a shocking white fake tree (what were they thinking). My wife and I started real - and haven't looked back!
for everyone available to go out and find the most compelling tree, cut it down, drag it to the house and argue about it being straight or not and how many lights to put on it... tinsel or not... and...
...always though, the same angel on top we've used for years and eggnog while we are decorating 
more difficult each year to find one small enough to fit in the house...
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and bravery.
we cut the 100 footers, use the top for Xmas tree and the rest for firewood in the bonfire!!
never forget the one that came down with squirrel nest and all... the startled squirrel jumping on my youngest and scaring the bejeezus out of him
45 acres of red pine Christmas trees - but never got around to harvesting any.
Red pine is pretty much useless for anything, and the trees are way overcrowded now.
So every year, my husband cuts one down, and we use the best 10' section for our Christmas tree (and the rest goes to make shelter for wildlife. )
I should mention - we've been supplementing the red pine monoculture by planting maples, oaks, walnuts, hickories, apples, cherries and chestnuts.
[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I guess for purposes of this poll, that would be either the 3rd or 4th choice listed - with your elaboration, if desired.
Happy Festivus!
I have a few Coulter Pine cones that I gathered in San Diego a long time ago. I drizzle a little tinsel on them and leave in there for a couple weeks.
These things are colossal, have lethal hook-like points, weigh up to six or more pounds - really! - and are like hardwood. I just like the way they look with tinsel and maybe some little colored spheres set in the crevices.
in our area, when I'm able to go my son uses my father's 50 year old four foot tree hand saw, the looks we get are priceless.
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i.e., it's imaginary.
Although this year, just the small artificial one, since my daughter won't be able to make it home for the holidays. Not worth the hassle to put up a real tree for just me and Mr PotatoChip. 
In a normal year though, we typically would go out and get a 'charlie brown' tree from off our property, because I love the balsam fir smell. Buying one is only $20 bucks at a nearby 'cut your own' Christmas tree farm, but we are too cheap for perfection. 
are considering a change. We add water to the real trees but don't necessarily change it all out and were told that bacteria could grow which would be bad for Jake if he drank it. Also I would be heartbroken if he broke some of our meaningful ornaments.
A table top real tree seemed to be the answer but after looking last weekend decided that was not desirable. Now I am thinking about going fake. The one plus with the fake other than not worrying about our dog getting bacteria-poisoned is that I do hate putting the lights on the tree every year as everyone else pretends they couldn't possibly figure out how to do it. A pre-lighted tree would be kind of great.
