christmas tree -real or fake

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real at the O Estate

rather not store the big old box
and nothing beats the fragrance

how about you

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Prefer real, but am stuck with fake. Allergies reign at our house, so I had to pick between healthy family or real tree. The healthy family won.

I got a good suggestion from a co-worker though - get those pine scented air fresheners for the car and hang them from my fake tree. I think I'll give it a try.

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Real. Only way to go. What the heck else are we going to do with all the mesquite trees?

Frightened Inmate #2

Fake.

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fake

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I marked real, for wishful thinking. I grew up with real trees every year. Tracy and I got a real one the first year, but then her parents bought a new fake one and we got their old one. So, we had that up last year. We have stooped so low this year as to have a two foot fake one on our mantle - came with all the lights and ornaments. Next year, I am taking Mikey out to get a real one, dammit!

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fake.
it's cheaper, no sharp needles to get stuck in you feet, less of a fire hazard, and doesn't involve killing a living thing just to toss it on the trash heap in a few weeks. The sight of an old abandoned x-mas tree is almost enough to make me cry.

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Excelent

POTFH

Real one in the Norris household. We are actually getting ours today. Jason likes to help pick them out! This year it will be interesting to see what Kaylee does when she sees it.

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Real!!!!! The smell, the look, the sap. There is a lot of hassle that goes with a real tree but I think it is worth it.

Christmas trees are a crop up here. It is like buying corn. If no one were to buy the real ones no one would plant them. After the are harested they are replanted so it isn't like they are becoming endangered.

Gone Fishin

Real. I'm within 5-minutes of a half-dozen tree farms. This is logging territory, the total economy depends on forest management. Like Batjac says about replanting foresters replace every tree with two. Those making a living from trees have the biggest interest in making sure healthy, long standing, multi-use timber will always be here. From papermaking to lumber to matchsticks, those are the forest products. Xmas trees most often come from farmers looking for a crop to make a living with as big corporate farms made their small plots unprofitable.

Master of Prissface

Has to be fake here too....I am deathly allergic to pine!!! But I too agree with Camelia, I hate the thought of cutting down a tree for a couple weeks and then throwing it out at the curb, all dried up and dead. If people dig them up and replant them, then that's OK, but most people here use the cut versions which don't get replanted.

Although I never looked at it from jrjo's POV....I guess that's kinda the same thing as the deliberately set forest fires out west that are controlled and designed to clear the path for fresher growth......

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I don't really have anything against cutting down Christmas trees as a whole. I certainly recognize that it is a crop and no different any of the other million of products I use. I don't begrudge anyone the right to cut down their tree. On a personal level it just makes me feel a little sad.

But please remember, this is coming from the person that as I child used to cry when I would see a lost mitten on the sidewalk because it looked so sad and cold and I thought it would be lonely without its other mitten. Embarassed

(I can't believe I just admitted that)

Master of Prissface

Don't be embarrassed, CB.....I felt bad when I was like 12 and got too old and cool for my kiddie stuffed animals so my mom put them all in a box and stuck them up in the attic. I thought they'd be scared and feel unwanted up there in the dark. Embarassed

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