My family has always had a fresh tree at Christmas, and I could never see breaking that tradition!  :)

I always go for the artificial tree.  I'd someday love to have a real one, but it's alot of work maintaining them over Christmas

I have always LOVED fresh. But when I was married the first time, we had an artificial that I hated. And then when I was living alone, I also had a artificial one. That could have been the reason why I hated Christmas so much at that time. Now, that I am with Carlos, WHEN we do get a tree (we don't get one if we are going away which we have done in the last several years), it is ALWAYS a fresh one.




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My family has been using the same artificial tree for years.

We have a Fake Plastic Tree... like in that Radiohead song!

Although I do like the smell of fresh trees. I hate the mess they leave behind. We are doing FAKE this year. I won't have to worry about watering it and hoping my house doesn't go up in flames. I won't have to deal with the garbage men hassling me either, on where my tree should be left on the curb  ;)

Sad but my momma was allergic so we had only one or two live trees my entire youth, and now that we've lost her and it's our first christmas w'out mom  we aren't in any mood to go pick a live tree from the farm .

The last live tree we had made a terrible mess, and I don't like worrying about the fire hazard, so we have an artificial one. Although, I'd love to have a vintage silver tree from the 50s, complete with color wheel! They go for pretty penny though  :(

When I was still at home with my folks, we broke all tradition and had a real tree one year...

Big mistake! We were forever vacuuming under and near the thing with the amount of 'shedding'...no joke, you only had to breathe on this thing and a mountain of needles would suddenly materialise on the floor...!

So, from then on, all the family has stuck to artificial...

Now, if someone could invent a tree that will bring itself down from the loft when needed, decorate itself, clean itself up and put itself back up in the loft when finished, I'd be dead impressed...!!

I think the onlyt way you ^ are going to get that today is to make a video of someone else decorating their own tree then take it home and watch that. no muss no fuss, pretty lights whenever you wish to see them.  A lot like the digital yule log fireplace for those who have no such luck as to have bare wall where I have fire place.

When I was still at home with my folks, we broke all tradition and had a real tree one year...

Big mistake! We were forever vacuuming under and near the thing with the amount of 'shedding'...no joke, you only had to breathe on this thing and a mountain of needles would suddenly materialise on the floor...!

So, from then on, all the family has stuck to artificial...

Now, if someone could invent a tree that will bring itself down from the loft when needed, decorate itself, clean itself up and put itself back up in the loft when finished, I'd be dead impressed...!!




We go with artificial for the same reason.  Last year, we got a new artificial tree that was pre-lit.  Guh-Roovy!  The lights, though, are clear, not colored like they were advertised, but I just wrap a string of colored lights around it during decorating.  The rest of the lights go outside for the house.  Some people have already put up their lights!  I'm gonna have to get busy...

Fake, I am allergic, when I was a kid I  always got sick around Christmas and they thought it was
"all the excitement".  I always felt guilty throwing the tree away, too, so I was kinda glad when I
found out the sickness was really allergy, giving me an excuse not to have one.

We get a fresh/live tree every year.

Artificial all the way. You can never find fresh trees that live up to your standards, and the prices they charge are outrageous.

Artificial

REAL!! don't get me started[i'm the poster child for real trees :D..there's nothing like 'em

Fresh, as if!!!! 

I thought only old people used fake trees. ;D

Our family needs to save money, so we just use the same tree each year  ;D

Also, we'd rather not clean up all the stuff the tree leaves... and.. well.. I guess that's it.