Poll: Real or Fake Christmas Tree

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Fathom5

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<< You bring the dead carcass home. You prop it up in the corner and hang lights and sh!t on it. How barbaric! >>

Ha! This sounds like deer season in Michigan! LOL ;)
 

Deeko

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Real!! Come on, my brother's a Christmas fanatic, if he came here and saw all you people supporting the evil fake tree that came to kill Christmas he would be very upset with you! :p:p
 

Dedpuhl

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none of the above. The X-mas tree symbolizes what is wrong with Xianity. More emphasis is put on what you get for X-mas and what is under a tree...than the &quot;true&quot; meaning of x-mas.
 

thedarkwolf

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Oct 13, 1999
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You mean HAM?




My friend's parents still have their real tree from 3 years ago setting beside there house :)
 

jkersenbr

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Jun 22, 2000
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Real -- we grow our own out behind the barn (no kidding)




With homegrown real trees available, why go fake :D
 

fdiskboy

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Moonbeam, you slay me.

Fake here. I love that tree smell, but it's too much of a hassle.
 

Shack70

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We have a 7 foot fake one that we just move down the basement after x-mas.
It stays together so we just have to move it upstairs for x-mas. It still needs to be decorated, and thats all the fun anyway! We have 2 dogs and a baby, so a real one can kind of be a problem(dogs drinking from water and getting sick, ect...)


 
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I'd prefer a fake tree myself. You can use them over and over, provided you take care of them from year to year. It's hard to find a real tree that looks decent around here.
 

Stallion

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We just started to go fake about 3 years ago. I always liked the Douglas Fir but this is much easier to go fake. Besides a good tree is about $40. :(
 

rudder

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locutus: buying real trees that you can plant after Christmas has become real popular. And a lot more trees are wasted everyday by people still reading newspapers.
 

Moogle

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I can't stand the smell of real christmas trees... and I don't like picking up all the needles that the vacuum cleaner missed afterwards either :)

Besides, my cat likes swinging from the branches, so he can do less damage on a fake one :)
 

cxim

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Dec 18, 1999
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Moog have you ever seen a mad cat in a fake Xmas tree ???

The worst cat damage, I have seen to a tree has been to a fake one. silver plastic needles everywhere.

Hope you don't have that luck..
 

FettsBabe

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Oct 21, 1999
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Our big one is a cut tree, and the little one in Psycho's son's room still has its roots, and will be replanted.
 

Moogle

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My fake one last year (using again this year) was remarkably resilient against the feline menace :) .. he'd scuttle up the middle, and swing precariously near the top, issuing plaintive meows.

Kind of cute really :)

Okay, yes, I do still have to pick up decorations every now and then ;)
 

cxim

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moog
You have better luck than we did... after about the 3rd attack, the tree looked like it had been beat with a stick, run over by a truck &amp; left out for the trash pickup. Never did find out why the cat hated that tree.
 

ArkAoss

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my aunt always gets a huge tree, has a 3 story living room, and always covers the whole tree, she quite frequently leaves it there for 6 -7 months, cause its such a pain to undecorate and rip it out, i dont celebrate xmas though
 

Schola

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We use an artifical Tree, Much cheaper then getting a new tree every year as we have had this tree for 11 or 12 years now.

Schola
 

nd

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Viper GTS,

Wow.. I never knew anyone else who had that problem too. I would break out in hives really bad if we got a real tree when I was a kid. A couple years ago (when I was like 17) we had a real tree again and I seemed to be fine, though. They told me it wasn't the tree itself, but the stuff they spray on it (not sure what this is, but I assume it's some sort of preserver).