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View Poll Results: What kind of Christmas tree 🎄 do you put up ?
Real tree each year 48 18.60%
Fake tree each year 163 63.18%
Both a real tree and a fake tree 27 10.47%
Sometimes real , sometimes fake 16 6.20%
Never have a tree 4 1.55%
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Old 23 Nov 19, 01:27 PM  
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Because it doesn't to me. They're shocking looking IMO. One twig at the top, then nothing till near a 1/4 the way down .

Just not to my taste, I prefer fuller trees with no gaps or bare patches.

Some people dont like artificial trees, that's fine, I dont like real ones, and that's ok too.
I have never bought a real tree, we used to have real trees as kids and it was great fun going out and picking one but I prefer artificial ones purely because it saves time and money having it on hand every year . there are artificial trees that look fake and ones that look real but my comment was purely in jest about you saying a real tree not looking like a real tree , I wasn't mocking you preferring an artificial one , let's not turn this thread into " treegate "
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Old 23 Nov 19, 01:37 PM  
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Always fake got a pre lit one so it’s up and decorated, got a small one one for dds Disney Primark baubles x
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Old 23 Nov 19, 01:44 PM  
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Artificial. Have never had a real tree, and its always been an artificial one here growing up, tbh real trees are not very common here where I live at all. My friend up the street always had a real one every year, but she was the one and only person I have ever own to have one.

I just dont like the look of real ones, they just don't look like a Christmas tree to me, and very mis-shapen, big and bare
I understand what you mean but do find this funny.. The very thing that was created to mimic the real thing is now considered to be more like the real thing than the actual real thing itself
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Old 23 Nov 19, 01:49 PM  
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Originally Posted by vampiress88 View Post
Wanted a real one.

This put me off

This happened to my neighbours on NYE a few years back. Luckily they were in the house but my neighbour had to pull it out of the house quickly and badly burnt his hand and arm.
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I understand what you mean but do find this funny.. The very thing that was created to mimic the real thing is now considered to be more like the real thing than the actual real thing itself
That has made me laugh out loud even though my head hurt reading it 🤣🤣🤣
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Old 23 Nov 19, 02:11 PM  
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This happened to my neighbours on NYE a few years back. Luckily they were in the house but my neighbour had to pull it out of the house quickly and badly burnt his hand and arm.
It took like 10 seconds to get to a point you couldn’t deal with. Think the video was from the firemen somewhere warning people about the trees being dry.
As much as I’d love one id have to not have lights on it and I like the lights so got a fake one from the garden centre today. Hubby refuses to put it up tho as it’s not December, usually I would agree but I’m getting too excited
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Old 23 Nov 19, 02:25 PM  
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we have a fake tree we did try a real one once but the dog kept cocking his leg against it

I do prefer the look of fake trees over a lot of the real trees you see in the shops - those always seem really sparse/bare looking and I prefer my tree to look fuller and more even. I'm sure there are some lovely real trees out there esp if you live near a tree farm or are prepared to pay more money for it but having pets/young kids around and a ds who is very sensitive to smells I'm happy with my fake tree.
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I always had a fake tree growing up! We have real ones now though we work at an auction that has thousands of Christmas trees in around this time of year too... we get ours for around £8 for a 7ft beautiful tree ! A no brainier for that reason too lol
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We have a real tree every year. We don't buy it until mid December so the prices have usually dropped by then. We usually have a Nordman Fir and they are quite bushy. I love that it's not all perfect and symmetrical and that it smells so good. You do have to look after it as it needs kept watered but most years ours looks like a new tree when it's time to take it down. We're in the local council garden scheme so they take it away and chip it so it can be used as mulch. None of our cats have ever shown an interest in it.
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So we have a narrowish, tallish, real-look tree that they think is real because we burn the "green" yankee candle in the morning (this year's green one is Evergreen Mist - smells lovely!)
Mine this year is Yankee Pine Berry - one of the ones I brought from the outlet :-)
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We add the scent sticks so it smells like a real one.
I was looking at those and wondering how good they would be?
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