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11/26/2006 02:31:02 PM · #26 |
Nothing beats picking 800 needles out of your feet after you went down at night to check the presents under the tree. Improves the smell of your feet as well. So, a real tree it'll be.
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11/26/2006 05:03:26 PM · #27 |
sigh .. i love real trees BUT
partially due to economics, we bought an artificial ... 100$ at costco
the last two years the trees we bought were 40$ or so ..
so at 5 years we've saved double ..
i'll miss the smell but not the watering nor the needles or missing the one day pick up ..
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11/27/2006 01:27:37 AM · #28 |
Originally posted by ralph:
...i'll miss the smell... |
We were at Michael's today and they carried a pine tree fragrance for use with artificial trees that smelled pretty real. I don't know if they have any stores where you are but they do have Canadian locations. |
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11/27/2006 01:44:49 AM · #29 |
Real real real.
We cut our own at a small local farm on land left between farms because it was too poor for "regular" crops or grazing. Then after Christmas it's taken to be chipped.
An added note to the info on tree farms; growers of balsam fir often use stump culturing, leaving lower branches to produce new trees from the old trunk. |
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11/27/2006 03:54:23 AM · #30 |
Fake- I am not one for the mess either.
Plus, a fake one you can bend the limbs to hold your heavy ornaments ;)
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11/27/2006 08:04:59 AM · #31 |
As a child we could only afford the real ones...(artificial were a pricey luxury and not even good-imagine that!), but when they became affordable that was the first thing we got...and now I have 3 in the house.
As a child who is allergic to 'touching' the real trees, I never understood the enjoyment of decorating a tree...(picture this, scarves/gloves/masks to cover everything to hang a simple bulb!!)
Now I LOVE my trees!!!!
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11/27/2006 08:22:21 AM · #32 |
| Real tree, but the presents we put underneath are fake. |
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11/27/2006 08:53:34 AM · #33 |
| My family has had an artificial tree my whole life. My husband and I just got married in April, so this was the first year I got to get my own tree. I got is last night and I'm so EXCITED that I can't see straight! I got a REAL tree!!! After I finish decorating it, I will post pics. I'm like a proud parent and the tree is my baby. :) Although I think my cats may like it more than I do. I caught a cat already climbing up the tree. :) |
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11/27/2006 08:58:34 AM · #34 |
I'm a real boobies / fake tree kind of guy.
We used to leave for Xmas for a week at at time to visit family so we ended up getting a artificial tree. |
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11/27/2006 09:51:31 AM · #35 |
I know the smell, look and feel of real trees are hard to beat. However the ease, convienence and cost of an artifical tree is nearly impossible to beat. It's a lot like the digital or film argument!
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11/27/2006 09:52:42 AM · #36 |
real!
although i do have some friends with an aluminum tree with the rotating color light and i have to say that i always thought that was pretty swell. :) |
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11/27/2006 09:55:11 AM · #37 |
Originally posted by LoudDog:
I know the smell, look and feel of real trees are hard to beat. However the ease, convienence and cost of an artifical tree is nearly impossible to beat. It's a lot like the digital or film argument! |
I know that I'll be getting a Digital Tree this year. 5 days after Christmas, just hit Delete and "Boom"...it's gone. No muss, no fuss. |
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11/27/2006 09:56:20 AM · #38 |
I have an OLD artificial that I have only used about 3 years out of the last 10, but this year I think I'm going to donate it to charity and buy myself a pre-lit artificial. My kids are nearly grown now and they really don't care if we go real or fake. So..... I think this year will be artificial!
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11/27/2006 10:03:31 AM · #39 |
I grew up with a Blue Spuce for Christmas every year when living in Colorado. Had real when the fam moved to Maine. Now I have my own family with 2 small kids, 3 cats and two big clumsy dogs, got to go with a real fake. Its just safer that way. I do miss the smell though.
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11/27/2006 10:58:30 AM · #40 |
| Real. I'm too commitment-phobic to buy a plastic tree that will last for hundreds of years. |
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11/27/2006 11:20:23 AM · #41 |
| Neither - I don't do a tree, or many decorations for that matter. I live alone and rarely have anyone over for Christmas. Whether it be real or fake, the cats would climb it, knock down ornaments, eat it, then throw up either plastic or real needles onto carpeted areas. |
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11/27/2006 11:25:10 AM · #42 |
| My parents make us have a real tree. I'd go artificial if it was up to me. It's a one time cost, rather than buying a real tree every year. Yeah, I'm cheap. =) |
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11/29/2006 12:20:40 AM · #43 |
Originally posted by Jacko:
I'm a real boobies / fake tree kind of guy. |
nuff said. now let's all go cut a tree down! |
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11/29/2006 12:22:48 AM · #44 |
| fake. real ones give me a headache/noseache/sore throat kinda thing. |
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11/29/2006 12:35:42 AM · #45 |
I got some horrible alergies but I still like a real tree.
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11/29/2006 12:56:25 AM · #46 |
We have a fake tree here. I guess we never bothered with a real tree... the house is as chaotic as it is.
I imagine Canadian Tire, who have come up with a rotating base-watering station for real trees, will also come up with a fake tree that emits smells. Mark my words. |
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11/29/2006 02:18:38 AM · #47 |
always had to go out and scour the countryside to find just the right tree for our Christmas...Scenerio: WE walk up to the most fabulous tree that we have ever seen in our lives...we are all in agreement that it is the perfect one...we cut it down, drag it home just to find out that it WAS 2 FEET HIGHER THAN OUR CEILING! Everytime...ha
I now have a fake one because I just can't stand the fact that we cut so many of our precious trees down just to keep them in our living room for about 2 weeks and then THROW THEM AWAY!
Sorry, but I don't miss killing trees at all.
Message edited by author 2006-11-29 02:19:41. |
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11/29/2006 02:26:11 AM · #48 |
| artificial... of course, I live in the middle of the Amazon jungle... we could decorate a real coconut tree:) |
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11/29/2006 08:53:30 AM · #49 |
We always get real.
But as a geolgist, I'd like to encourage the use of artificial trees in order to support the mining and exploration industires. To me a nice, big, open-pit bauxite mine is more beautiful than a tree farm. ;-)
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11/29/2006 08:55:06 AM · #50 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
....I'd like to encourage the use of artificial trees in order to support the mining and exploration industires. To me a nice, big, open-pit bauxite mine is more beautiful than a tree farm. ;-)
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