Real or Fake??

echter

Christmas tree!. I like fake ones, perfectly shaped, holds decorations better, more vibrant, no smell, pop it up in the attic when you're done bish bash bosh.
What do you go for?

sdanseo

echter wrote: »

Christmas tree!. I like fake ones, perfectly shaped, holds decorations better, more vibrant, no smell, pop it up in the attic when you're done bish bash bosh.
What do you go for?

I prefer real, they smell nice, look nicer and add to the festive spirit IMO.

Yet in my house we have a fake.

Feelgood

Real I think....fakes ones just don't jiggle enough....

Then again sometime real ones just look like half empty water balloons....

No no, definitely real...

fake all the way

Smellyirishman

Never had a real one in my house, gonna go with fake.

bonkey

Real. With real candles. And not too much glitz.

thebman

real is better but its not in the spirit of Xmas to murder trees





I choose fake because cleaning up after having a real tree is too much like hard work. We used to have real trees at home but now we have a fake tree.

darkskol

I prefer the real tree smell but hate cleaning up the needles so we have a fake tree up.

Frisbee

Real. Purely for the smell

themadchef

Real all the way.......would never ever consider a fake one but i would never consider a fake fire either.
I love the smell, even the annoying shedding of the needles.

Cost varies so much though, outlaws were here for the weekend and they brought 2 back with them.....cost here for a very nice tree =€18 .... cheap they thought.

Mweelrea

the real ones are better but fake is cheaper in the long run and there's no annoying pines on the floor!

kleefarr

Fake, with a pine smelling freshner.

Easy to get, store, set up, take down and had the same one for years. €€€

Has so much stuff put on it you can hardly see it anyway.

Pj!

I got sick of the hassle of real ones. This year went for the most realistic fake one I could find.

Now the needles are falling off it.

giddyup

Funnily enough this was done about a year ago. In the style of an irritating parliamentarian may I refer the honorable gentlemen to the answer I gave at that time.

Mweelrea

Forky wrote: »

I got sick of the hassle of real ones. This year went for the most realistic fake one I could find.

Now the needles are falling off it.

hmmm its so realistic it gives you the same amount of hoovering!:D

needles stuck in carpet is the worst!

keen

Fake, save the planet and all that.

Pj!

Almost all the trees people buy wouldnt have been grown if it were not for the demand for them. So you get a couple of years of trees where there probably wouldnt have been before.

longshanks

real all the way bitches, love the smell, the needles, the unevenness and they look way better in a house.

Mossy Monk

I don't bother with a tree or decorations.

Mweelrea

Mossy Monk wrote: »

I don't bother with a tree or decorations.

why not??
christmas spirit is very catchy you know....

Pj!

because he's a borin (person).

(edited because threat of getting banned (again))

Mweelrea

Forky wrote: »

because he's a borin (person).

(edited because threat of getting banned (again))

you were banned? how long for?

myjugsarehuge

keen wrote: »

Fake, save the planet and all that.

Fake.

All living trees absorb carbon from the atmosphere so growing them, even if it is for only a few years, is good for reducing global warming or so I am led to believe from watching Eco Eye ?

I am guessing that most artifical Christmas trees are produced in China (ours was) and are shipped all around the globe costing a fortune in fuel/energy. Our artifical tree has lasted 4 years and I didn't know about global warming then, so I feel justified in keeping it going while it is still functional.

When it comes time to replace it we will start having a real Christmas tree, if at all, the children will be grown up then so may not bother at all.

All real Christmas trees should be shredded after the New Year so the stored carbon can be taken back into the soil when the chippings are used as a garden mulch rather than being released back into the atmosphere if the tree is burned.

emeraldstar

Real, of course!! I don't know how anyone could prefer a fake one.... they don't have that real Christmassy smell and don't look as good IMO

Rb

Like tits, real all the way.

Pj!

Mweelrea wrote: »

you were banned? how long for?

10 days or so. For calling someone a muppet. In my defense he was....

anyway, thats off topic.

emmmmmm........ christmas trees rule!!!

Mweelrea

Forky wrote: »

emmmmmm........ christmas trees rule!!!

Nice save mate! i'd better help out.......

fake tree's are better!

Poxyshamrock

Fake trees are so much handier

Alanstrainor

Real, i just love the smell and the "authentic" look of 'm, although we did have a fake on for a few years but it died...

Alan,

Thrill

Fake all the way. I think they look far nicer and when Christmas is over, just shove it into the attic till next year.

I thought this was going to be a thread about breasts.



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2 stroke

I thought this was another boobz thread and the answer is real.

Mweelrea

theres a boobs thread over in the cuckoo's nest fourm.......

ScumLord

Forky wrote: »

I got sick of the hassle of real ones. This year went for the most realistic fake one I could find.

Now the needles are falling off it.

muhahaha,

Real, it's not christmas without the smell. Plus I like watching a living thing die slowly in the corner of the room.

The Real B-man

Like the Real ones but the convience of a fake one..

Malteaser!

Used to always have a fake one when I was kid but we've gotten real ones in the last couple of years. I prefer the real ones anyway!

echter

myjugsarehuge wrote: »

Our artifical tree has lasted 4 years

What??? our artificial tree has lasted about eleven years and the one in the kitchen is even older.

TPD

Real, smells great and so do the fires for the next month.

WoollyRedHat

Real is always better in every sense. The smell is the best part, how can you not like the smell!

Fast_Mover

Real all the way!!
Looks nicer..and the smell is the best part indeed!

CrazyTalk

I don't think we've ever had a real tree...
The tree is always sitting up in attic before Christmas, so in handiness factor, Fake wins out