Xmas tree poll

dulcemariamar1

Do you have a real or fake Christmas tree?

sushisamba

Only real for us!  So many great memories when I was young of actually going out with my dad to cut down our trees.  I love the look and smell of them.  I can't imagine going fake, and I've managed to get DH on board as well. 

We haven't gotten one yet, but will when we get back from our trip next week.

azure_azure

We usually have both!

A small 90cm fake tree and then a big real tree. Not sure we will get a real tree this year though as we may be travelling on Christmas.

Val

Fake. I love the idea (and the smell) of a real one & had this romantic notion of planting them in our garden every year but between the needles, the fact that they usually don't look as good as our fake one and that well, they die anyway... back to fake.

dulcemariamar1

I love real but I think they are really hard to come by here in Madrid. So I have a tiny fake one in my living room. But I always grew up with a real one.

amwallace

We have a fake tree ;( I'm sad about it, but real trees are just too expensive. Ugh. 

gblake

We are doing a fake tree this year.  If we were back home, we would go real for sure.  I love the way they smell.

rpic81

Real all the way! I love the smell. It doesn't feel like Christmas without it.

The Irish Gal

Real!!!  I love the smell...

I was cycling into work yesterday morning and went past a place that sells them and got the smell... aahhh... and they weren't even open at the time... just that smell...

(we put a little water in the bottom of the stand and the needles don't shed quite as much...)

FayeD

Out here it's fake. No chance of getting a real one. Once we get back Stateside, DH is all about having a real tree. But in the meantime I do have the scented Yankee candle.

NLfoodie

We have fake trees (3 last year, I guess we'll do that this year too, we have 'em after all!)

I would love love love to have at least 1 of them be real, however, I'm allergic and will get very very itchy if we get one. I already have to endure that at work, so I'm more than happy to escape the itchies at home.  

welshgirl

We've got a small (1m) fake one. We don't have space (with two little ones) to have a real one, and they're so expensive as well - I looked at our local garden centre yesterday and they average ?50, and a 6ft one is ?60! Eeek! I miss the smell and 'realness' of a real tree though and it makes me sad. I figure we'll splurge more when teh kids are just that little bit older and can understand...

BelgianBells

We have a tiny fake one out here (2ft). When we are in the US, we have a large fake one (5ft). I have never had a real tree. My mom tells me horror stories about her friend's tree that fell over TWICE in one Christmas and broke all her ornaments.

DH used to get real trees, and says they are a huge PIA. The first Xmas in our first house though I would like to get a real one. I have heard they smell wonderful and it is so nice to have one.

In the meantime, I am enjoying a Christmas Tree scented Yankee Candle as well

pokepoke27

Fake all the way, lol. I love the smell of a real tree but I just don't want the hassle of it. Plus, with all the other extra expenses associated with the holidays it's nice to not have to buy the tree. 

 And I even go a step further and buy pre-lit. I hate trying to string lights around the tree!!

ukyankee

Fake.  My H is somewhat allergic to them and HATES the mess/upkeep of them (he didn't grow up with Christmas so it's very foreign to him).

bugabean

No tree this year. No room. 

The Irish Gal:

(we put a little water in the bottom of the stand and the needles don't shed quite as much...) 

Do most people not water their tree? Maybe that's why everyone complains about real trees being messy. I grew up with a fake tree and I just assumed that real ones were watered. The past few years, I've gotten real, watered it, and it wasn't messy at all, so I've been kinda confused about people complaining about it. The first day, it goes through water really fast, but after that it isn't much work to keep it watered. *shrug* 

snowyowl

We got our first full-size tree this year! I'm so excited, I put a ridiculous number of pictures on facebook, ha. 

We've gotten tiny, 1 foot trees before in our small apartments. In our last apartment it was too small for even a little tree like we'd had before. But our house now has plenty of room and DH took me out today for a tree. It smells so good in here, I love it!  

allibally

I want real and I'm hoping to get it on Sunday. But DH doesn't have much Christmas spirit.