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Various Non-Bald Discussions => General Discussion => Topic started by: warhawk on December 07, 2011, 01:47:58 PM
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hey fellow chrome domes: i will B setting up our Christmas tree soon and i was wondering what type of Christmas tree do U have. i'll start: we will B having an artificial tree. it's just more convenient and less mess. so... how 'bout U? real tree? or artificial tree? what's your story?
WARHAWK O0
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real here ( I don't really care of "christ"mas, my family does..
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Artificial.
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Real, a Frazer fir from North Carolina. Never had artificial.
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Gonna be environmentally sustainable this year and leave the tree in the woods.
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Real tree only. I grew up with artificial trees (including an aluminum one for a few years) and vowed never to have one once I left home!
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Gonna be environmentally sustainable this year and leave the tree in the woods.
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Ours is "environmentally sustainable"! It is a farm grown tree, and after it's taken down on Twelfth Night [the start of the Carnival Season in Louisiana] it will go with the other real trees to be bundled and placed in the wetlands to form the basis of "growing" back the acreage that has been lost.
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We have a fake tree that is old as heck so it isnt really less messy than a real one. We do cut branches from the spruce/fir trees to make stuff for the house that smells like a real tree though.
Saint, that is awesome. I am a big nature nerd so things like that are great. In some of the lakes folks sink old trees for fish habitat up here
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We actually have two REAL trees this year. We decorated the one in the main living room as most people decorate these days.
The one in our Family room is decorated the way trees were decorated when I was a kid...... big bulbs, old fashioned ornaments, and that silver tinsel. It loooks awesome! My kids LOVE it!
After Christmas I drag ours out into the woods so they can go back from whence they came.
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Real.
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Our town collects the trees in early January, chips and mulches them and offers the mulch for free back to town residents.
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I miss the 70's, growing up in Northern Illinois we used to take a horse drawn sleigh to the woods to cut down a tree, with hot cider or chocolate. Now with the convenience of pre-lit artificial tree's, I'm afraid I got lazy and have had a fake 10 foot tree since my adulthood.
It's funny that I found this post today as we put our tree and decorations up today.
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Never had a fake one, real all the way, and we always use it for our wood burning stove when it's dried out (in NZ christmas is summertime). and we just cram loads of old decs on it, looks great
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Artificial.
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No tree.
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In process of divorce....none this year, but next year we'll see...
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Artificial for the past number of years. Can't afford a real tree, but I like the smell of the evergreens. I like the idea of tucking in some real branches for the aroma.
Used to live in Alaska. Always went out in the forest and got a free tree. They looked GREAT in the forest, but scrawny in the living room. Heck, they grow 2 feet per year! so 2 feet between branches! A friend would get two trees. Drill holes in the trunk of one of them, and insert branches from #2 into #1. Branch transplant. Then they looked better.
Don't use a Hemlock. The needles drop in about 2 days! Did that one year.
Our girls put up the tree last night. (well, tree and lights) Ornaments later.
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In process of divorce....none this year, but next year we'll see...
Sorry to hear that sirharry, all the best for what the future may bring.
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always grew up with an artificial tree because my mums allergys never agreed with the real thing, we did have a real tree theone year though :)
As of now because the flat im in is quite small its easier to have an artificial one, but once we get a bigger place going real all the way!
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Artificial.
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Artificial for the past number of years. Can't afford a real tree, but I like the smell of the evergreens.
We have an artificial and got scent sticks to hang in the tree. I'm sure it isn't quite the same, but the smell is a nice touch.
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2 artificial tress 1 traditional & 1, 1950s aluminum tree with a revolving stand & color wheel. 😄
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We have always gotten a real tree. I really love the fragrance they give off. I prefer a balsam or a frazer fir. Real trees are a lot more work bt I think they are worth it.
If we ever buy an artificial tree, I will make sure that it is pre lit. The lights are the hardest part of the job.
Merry Christmas to all my fellow sly bald friends.
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For me, it's artificial. Saintc you mentioned discarded trees sent to the wetlands? In Houston, we send our's to Galveston to help retain and build sanddunes.
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I've never had a "real" tree since I've been an independent adult (decades now). Many years I put nothing up but a wreath outside and a few lights; sometimes I'll bring up a small table-top artificial tree (found in a Dumpster long ago) put it in the living room on a table and decorate it. But since I spend Christmas day, elsewhere than at home with friends, a tree is not high on my list of things to do. There is, however, the memory of childhood trauma over selecting "the tree," and putting it up, and decorating it. Rarely merry.
And then, of course, the needle clean-up afterwards.
You know what I miss? The real lead "icicles" you once could get--but no more. Just as you can't get a real mercury thermometer anymore. The nanny state diminishes our harmless amusements and tools. What's wrong, really, with the chance of heavy metal poisoning?
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Fake in the house, real one in the front yard.
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I'd prefer a real one but restrictions in the building where I live require an artificial one. >:(
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@Slyfive- Thanks man appreciate it...Getting together with family on the Gulf Coast Christmas weekend, so no need for a tree this year anyway...