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Christmas Tree
NOAH
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Fake[:0] or Real[:)]
I my self would prefer real BUT i like what is put up[;)][:D]
My wife asked me to get the tree down from the attic today,
SO it is fake tree this year[:(]
What say you[?]
I my self would prefer real BUT i like what is put up[;)][:D]
My wife asked me to get the tree down from the attic today,
SO it is fake tree this year[:(]
What say you[?]
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When will you put up your tree?
the reasons....
better for the environment,
smell nice,
support local business (if you buy locally)
look nicer
A symbol, for whatever it means to you.
I have an "artificial" tree. It is always beautiful, I don't have to go out and find a $90 tree every year, cut the bottom, try to make it fit in a $50 stand, keep it watered, clean up the mess, and then try to figure out how to dispose of it.
Had my share of cut trees, cut them myself for years, then bought a lot more.
Then I started noticing that I was having respiratory infections every Christmas, making for a miserable time when everybody was having fun enjoying the holidays. Always started a week or so after bringing in a "live" tree.
Got my first artificial one, haven't been sick at Christmas since.
When it's decorated, not many can tell it's not a cut tree. Put it up anytime, keep it as long as I want. Can't say I miss "real" trees.
Sister and family drive 80 miles ad we all go to farm and pick a tree. Wife cooke and Kide start trimming the tree .
Christmas eve sister;daughter and familes spend the night waiting for Santa to come. Kinda crowded but i like it.
I hate em! Only real trees for me, I am a Nature Boy.
1 Vote REAL.
the reasons....
better for the environment,
smell nice,
support local business (if you buy locally)
look nicer
How is it better for the environment?
You are cutting down a live tree to put in your house for a few weeks.
I take the $50 bucks each year for a real tree and give it to toys for tots. Our old fake tree works just fine.
I do about the same thing but I just add the money to a kids christmas giveaway here.
My "articicial tree is 10 feet tall and it's pre-lit!!!
Bah-Humbug!!
I Vote Real tree[^]
I want a real tree.
Christmas tree two Years ago was Real and 17 Ft tall
I Vote Real tree[^]
I need to start selling turkey calls...
Christmas tree two Years ago was Real and 17 Ft tall
I Vote Real tree[^]
Woody, where in the heck did you put up a 17' ft tree???
Starting a tradition this year, going to plant them every year from now on rather than buy cut ones.
We have a 12' artificial in the front room and 8 ft Frasier fir in the keeping room. Love the smell of the firs. I just wish the Balsam firs were not so expensive....
Cap? Whats a keeping room? Yes I'm young.........
+1
one year i left it up until valentines day[:D]
Did 11 trees this year! Even the family Grinch got one!!![8D]
quote:Originally posted by CaptFun
We have a 12' artificial in the front room and 8 ft Frasier fir in the keeping room. Love the smell of the firs. I just wish the Balsam firs were not so expensive....
Cap? Whats a keeping room? Yes I'm young.........
Something kinda between a Family room and a Great Room,
See http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-keeping-room.htm
I'm not a hippie, but I like shilowar's idea, a real one that can be planted.
LOL I'm not a hippie either. I like spruce trees and want to plant some all over my property. Have a blue Spruce out front I planted last year that has lights and lighted candy canes on it and I'll plant this spruce somewhere else on the property.
It just seemed like a waste to buy a beautiful 9' tree just to drag it out into the woods after Christmas. This way I can plant them and they'll remind me of good memories! I could spend $50 on a 9' tree that's going to die, or $30 on a 4' tree that will grow into a huge tree someday. Hopefully in 30 years I'll be around to see it!
The only condition is:
If you take one, you have to take 10.[:D]