CHRISTMAS trees: real or artificial...

[Timmay]

I will give ya a real pine smell, stick an evergreen up your arse and feed ya can of beans LOL

[Mikekoz13]

I will give ya a real pine smell, stick an evergreen up your arse and feed ya can of beans LOL

Don't try to get on my good side................

[Timmay]

LOL....your only good side is when you are NOT facing me...lol

[PowerOfCheese]

I will give ya a real pine smell, stick an evergreen up your arse and feed ya can of beans LOL

No way that would work!

Wait...  would it?   

[Timmay]

i dunno cheese, com'ere we will test it out

[The Scottish Ambassador]

Artificial here guys.

Its 8ft tall. Had a few real trees before but the needle drop drove me nuts. Specially when u get one stuck in your ass in August. Those babies seem to lie about for months no matter how much you vacuum

[Timmay]

what you doing scootin your ass on the floor in august for anyways?? LOL

[D.A.L.U.I.]

Real tree, same guy has supplied them to us for at least 10 years.  He leaves New Orleans the Saturday before Thanksgiving for North Carolina, goes to the farm, cuts them and brings them back--his steady customers pick them up or he delivers on Friday or Saturday after Turkey Day.  Then it sits until we get up the gumption to decorate, but the smell is wonderful and fills the house.  They last until12th Night, the traditional day to take down the tree in New Orleans because it's the beginning of Carnival ending in Mardi Gras the day before Ash Wednesday and is also called King Cake Day--the first day to legitimately eat King Cake.  Some super nuts take off the Christmas green and red ornaments and put on purple green and gold ornanments, the colors of Mardi Gras.  Laissez les Bonnes Temps Roules, Mes Amis.  Throw me something Mister, and all that Jazz.

[tomgallagher]

Artificial by all means.

[andrew]

I've had a real tree for the past 30 years and bought an artificial tree a few days ago.  I was tired of all the BS that accompanied a real tree. Our new artificial is surprisingly nice. 

We always went to a tree farm, rode on the back of a flat-bed truck to the area they were harvesting, and cut it down myself.  That was the fun part.

Getting it into the stand (straight), watering daily, and hauling it out was a real pain in the a$$ and I won't miss it.  The smell of pine was nice, but it wasn't worth all of the BS.

So far, I'm loving this artificial ...

[GASlick]

Artificial tree for us.  I don't need the mess or maintenance of a real tree.  They look very real now, not like they used to.  We just bought a new one.  Prelit and ready to go.  Folds out like a giant umbrella.  Snap the top on and Christmas has begun.

We always had artificial trees growing up. 

[tow]

I REMEMBER AS A KID THE SMELL OF THE THE REAL CHRISTMAS TREE WE ALWAYS HAD IN THE CORNER OF THE FRONT ROOM.AFTER MOVING OUT AND GETTING MY OWN HOUSE I REMEMBER RETURNING HOME ONE DEC AND FINDING MY DAD PUTTING TOGETHER A ARTIFICAL TREE.UPON QUESTIONING HIM HE REPLIED"WELL ALL YOU KIDS ARE GROWN NOW AND YOUR MOM DONT NEED TO SUFFER NO MORE".IT SEEMS MY MOM WAS REALLY ALLERGIC TO PINE AND WOULD SUFFER EVERY YEAR SO US KIDS WOULD HAVE A TRADIDITIONAL CHRISTMAS EVERY YEAR GROWING UP.EVERY HOLIDAY SEASON I THINK OF HER AND THAT STORY.

[Papa Don]

I have an artifial tree. The only way to go. Hated the mess with the real tree.  I can remember one Christmas, my wife found this truly beautiful flocked Norfork pine.  She had to have it.  After decorating the thing, it was the most beautiful tree I had ever seen.
Welllllll-------Christmas day it looked like it had emploded.  It shrank to about half it's size.  We were afraid to turn on the lights.
So-from that day forward we always set up an artifical one.  No needles or waiting for trash pickup.  Oh, something that they are now doing on the Gulf Coast is that you can take your old trees to the coast and they use them to help with the beach erosion.  It does seem to help.

[SLYinKC]

Artificial all the way. I'd love to do the the real sometimes, though.

[R o b 6]

Artificial tree (but not pre-lit). We hang fresh pine and cedar garlands on the front door, fireplace mantle and around the house. Best of both worlds. Easy-does-it tree and that fragrant fresh pine smell from the garlands.