Trees - Real, fake or don't do xmas?

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So what sort of tree.. ?

[Peter]

Fake, white, dark decorations, lots of crystal & silver bits, and a cat on top if I can catch her. :D

[Peter]

Just found a photo of last years...........

[Seahorse]

Reeeeeeaaalll,preferably with a Robin and its nest already in residence.

[carolinemhannon]

fake with silver and lilac decorations

with a toddler and 2 young dogs a real one isn't even an option

[mollymandy]

I like real tough i have fake this year good old traditional tree red and gold ans coloured fairy lights.
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[beadsbydesign]

I do fake!
Initially it was because we were very poor the first year we were married and my DH said we could either buy a real tree for £12.00 or pay the same for a fake and make it last for the next twelve years.... we made it last 13. Then two years ago I went to but a new one. this one only cost eight pounds and so I've only another 6 to go!!!
Its gold decs for me. I buy a huge can of gold spray and spray all the decs gold.
Eden doesn't like our stunnning gold look and so she has a small pound shop tree in her room with all the bright and gaudy decs on. She was so proud of her last years tree she kept it up until march!

[ElvenJen]

Reals look and smell nice but are too mucky! And not good for the environment! (ok so a load of plastic tree's isn't too I KNOW! :p)

[Spiritofeve]

I don't do Xmas!
Decorate for Yule.. well a bit.. Candles and evergreens.

Since the kids are grown, dont do Santa either!

:p
Kris

[EMEvans]

Fake............since having the children. I was also sick of needles dropping everywhere and i had to get the hoover out everyday

[caketopper]

fake as the needles get everywhere from real ones, we normally have a fibre optic one

[Bay-Bee]

I voted fake as I come up in a rash with real ones!

[Snow angel]

I love real ones but they just dont like me. So i have to have fake with white,silver and lilac decorations

[candles by lisa]

I have a fake green one with gold and silver decorations. I always fancied getting a real tree but to be truthful the needles falling puts me off!!

Cheers.

Lisa
:D

[Annette]

Gotta be a real one, had a fibreoptic tree one year, just wasn't the same.

We get ours from the local forestry (legally, not over the hedge!!) and it's one of those that doesn't lose its needles easily.

[Apple Tree Crafts]

As with most things, I'm pendantic with my Christmas Tree.

Having lived right next to the Forestry Commission for so long in Scotland, we got used to buying a Nordmann spruce every year, for practically peanuts.

Now it costs me anything up to £50, but it's worth it. And I only buy from sustainable sources. I love the look and the scent of a real tree, and I've never had one lose it's needles. Nordmanns dry out, but still look green and bushy. I usually have the tree for my present, I don't care if I don't get gifts, but Christmas just isn't Christmas without my tree-choosing ceremony!

I chose the tree very carefully, then we take it home and leave it in the garage for a week with fresh water which contains a little glucose. When it's up in the livingroom, I prune it to fit closer to the wall and to even up it's shape.

I've always themed my decorations and have boxes and boxes of them, but the past few years I've gone back to the red & white continental style decorations that I grew up with, so I must sort out and get shot of all the decs I no longer want....

So, red & white decs, and absolutely NO tinsel. Instead I buy huge bunches of gypsophilia (those tiny tiny white flowers) and put large sprays on each layer of branches, so that it looks like snow. Luckily a florist friend can buy it in bulk at the flower market cos it only lasts two or three days with the heating and the open fire going!

I feel all festive now.....

Jules

[icecreamgirl]

REAL!!!!!
I've never owned a plastic one, always had real since living away from home.
Our house isn't very big so i buy a small bushy real one which is already potted, and sit it on a little table in the dining room
I LOVE Chritsmas and could sit by the tree all day every day eating mince pies and drinking Mulled Wine....
I find if i water the tree it dosn't really shed much..

[Sommerwood]

Fake for me, have had ours for about 9 years now and it is still in really good condition. Decorate it in a sort of peacock scheme, deep jewell like colours of purples and greens and blues and golds with just natural clear lights and I just love looking at it every year. I put it up as early as I can get away with, battle with my husband over it every year as he woul prefer to put them up on Christmas Eve and take them down Bxoing Day, even been known to have it put up for my birthday before ... 11th November!!! Have a lovely collection of all different sorts of traditional looking Santa's too which I have dotted about, and a wooden shaker style tree in the dining room. Am planning on making some shaker style trees to sell this year too, time permitting!!

Ooooooooooooooo now I really want to go home and get them all out ad put up!!!!:o

[Tip Top]

After a number of disasters with real ones (too big for the house, needles dropped after 3 days so it was actually bare by Christmas Eve!, fell over etc...) and with two small kids, its a case of a fake one but it actually looks quite real.

Decorations - any that stay on to be honest!!:mf:

[Pauline@weddingtreasures]

Had a fake tree once and ex hubby said 'never again'..........we were still finding pine needles 6 months later!

There are a lot of really nice fake ones out there at the moment that are just as good and no mess.

Last year we did'nt have a tree - awwwwwwwww, because hubby was in hospital having his by-pass operation and with it being touch and go, the last thing on my mind was decorating - so had none up at all!

As it happened he came out christmas day, but we were not bothered about the absense of decorations or a tree - just happy!

This year, I would love one but I don't know where to put it.....this house is sooooooooooo small I would have to sell a piece of furniture to get it in.

Pauline :D