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Fake. I don't like real ones. It takes so long to get and throw it out. It may smell good but I don't like going back and forth trying to get one. A fake one looks like a real one and you can use it over and over again.
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neither, real menorah! EDIT-to the guy who rated me down, glad to know you're so loving.
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I love real trees, growing them not cutting them down and tying them to the roof of the car. unfortunately, I'm very allergic to them so I have a came-apart (K-mart) standby tree which my cat chomps on and gets sick from.(I can't believe I answered this question three times).
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No tree. But the spirit will be there.
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I don't think I would ever buy a fake xmas tree. I much prefer the real ones. Besides, I really don't have any room to store a fake one between christmases.
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I'll take this from the environmental standpoint. Living trees (that is, ones in pots that you'll plant outdoors after Christmas is over) are the best but most expensive option. Probably not feasible, but if you can do it, great. It'll look nice for Christmas and for years to come. Fake trees are good because they can be used over and over again. However, if you can't store a fake tree during the rest of the year, then use a real one. Real trees are biodegradable when you throw them out, whereas fakes aren't.
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Fake trees. Yes trees, as in about 6 of them throughout the house. My wife loves Christmas.
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If I brought one in the house it'd be real. There is no substitute for the smell of fresh-cut evergreen :) Since I live in a small clearing in the middle of the woods anyways, I really don't know if I want to kill a tree just to move it ten feet into my living room and throw it out a month later. I will go on record as saying that fake trees are for city-folk and flatlanders.
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I tried using a real tree, but with all the animals it looked like a tornado hit it. With the fake ones I can always rearrange and make it look ok. I usually keep three trees up. One for the presents and one for show and the other? It's for the critters to destroy. I got it at a garage sale and at this point it kinda looks like a Charlie Brown tree! I think this summer I'm gonna be scouting for a new one.
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Traditionally my family has chosen a real Christmas Tree but for the past few years we have purchased a fake tree.
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Real of couse, I've always had a real tree ever since I was born, its a tradition. Plus they smell good!
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fake of course,i have always have had a fake one. that way i can use it over and over.
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real, as usual---why get a fake? it looks too---fake and cheap! be real, not fake i always say
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None. I can't afford one.
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Real. I love the smell of Christmas, and nothing says it better than a nice crisp pine. And bah, they may drink a lot of water, and leave needle, but fakes are... well... fake looking. And sheesh, they're expensive for the decent ones! I suggest if you want a fake tree, ask for one the Christmas before. heheh.
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Real menorah on Chanukah.
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fake but thats because i had a friends whose house caught on fire because the real one dried out & burned all the presents under it as well as the home. But the real ones do smell so nice & christmasy
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Real!!!
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Real
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definatly a real tree! it is your decision but real is like the old christmas! it brings back the joy from when we were younger
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Uh. I have an artifical tree. But its my parents decision. However, i have no problems with it. It does the job.
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real, definately. it's the smell, gotta be. downside, they're really messy.
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Artificial so the needles don't fall off and i will have to pick all of them up.
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Artificial so the needles don't fall off and i will have to pick all of them up.
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fake. if i had the room and no pets, i would get a real one. at least with a fake i can reuse it and save money and trees.
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I always have a fake one which is the size of your average midget
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Real every year. Though this will be the first time I haven't gone out to cut my own with the kids. "What a drag it is getting old". Edit: And to the person who down rated this answer, Merry Christmas to you too.
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i have a fake tree and really hate it. because it looks like a triangle, and also it doesnt smell like a real tree as well, its just not the same, but i always buy a small little real tree for the upstairs, just for the smell, and then i bake ginger bread cookies, just so it smells like christmas to me.
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real is a tradition in my fam. so real
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I'll probably get a real fake tree.
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im really allergic to real ones soo i like the fake kind...but i would totally say that if you can have a real one do it!!!! they really look a lot prettier when you put the lights on them and there is just something about their smell that makes it feel like christmas.
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well i wish we had a real one but i heard it briong spider here in miami, well at least its real tall (9 feet)and i brought some branch from a real tree to make the good smell i put them at some place in the house for decoration
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always been real, just like the spirit. merry christmas to all.
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Yahoo-real fraser
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Fake. You can use it again every year and there's no mess.
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Real, but it is easier to maintain a fake one.
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real, although for some reason i've taken a liking to the cheesy fiber-optic ones as well.
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Real. The wonderful aroma of it helps signify the season to me.
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Sorry to be a party pooper, but I hate all traditions that require the annual destruction of trees or any other part of the environment, so I will have neither, because I don't want my kids to associate Christmas with the need to cut down a tree.
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i tried a real one last year and it wouldnt sit up very well and turned out to be a lot bigger than it looked tied up! so ive got a fake one this year
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Fake, its pretty and alot safer..I can leave it up till next year if I want lol
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I have a fake one. They costs less and they last for years!!!
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I have two, both fake. One is a 7 foot oregon pine knockoff. The other I got at a garage sale for 3 bucks. It is a 5 foot metal silver tree. I had it before I got married and would put lights on it. The lights would reflect off the metalic 'leaves' so that it would blind anyone within a 20 ft. radius (which is bigger than the room it was in). My wife doesn't like it though so she says I can only put it up in the garage where no one can see it.
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This is a duplicate. please look at old posts before making questions. look at http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/94448 and as i said there, no tree, but a mennorah. today's the first day of hannukah too!
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Well, since I was little I had a fake one. But, then there was a bee's nest in it and it stung me. Then I got a real one, and felt bad because of the poor dying trees. So, here I am with a fake one again.
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I usually have a real Yule tree. I will not have one this year, as I cannot lift it.
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No tree. Just hope to have a positive and relaxed feeling around December 25th. And I don't need a tree to do that. :)
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I have a real tree. I think that real trees get me more into the Christmas spirit. Also, they smell better!
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At my house, we have a fake one, but it's really great since there's optic fibers on it!
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I have a fake tree, its 3 feet tall. We had it for 6 years now, and it decorated with all the stuff me and my brothers and sister made in school.
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i have a fake tree, but it looks pretty with all the decorations and lights on.
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No tree this year, as we are moving house between Christmas and New Year. Looks like the closest thing we'll get to a tree is if I cut out a pic of one and stick it to the wall to put gifts under. lol But we usually have a really pretty little fake gold one. (Wish it was real gold - rofl)
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I don't have one. I don't have the space. I just draped silver lametta over one of the house plants.
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real one in the house I am staying in but own a fake one
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We couldn't affor a tree so my BF's parents gave us their old one. Its heaps better than no tree, but its falling to bits and we only have tinsil to put on it. But!!! I love it because it reminds me of the meaning of Christmas, which is not to have a fancy tree or presents under it!
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real, but last year for the first time we used a fake one because we were renting.
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No tree ever for me. How people that have cats can have a tree is beyond me. My cats would be destroying a tree 24/7.
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We used to use real trees, but it turns out I'm allergic to them. So, unfortunately, we have a fake tree. It doesn't really matter, though, I suppose.
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real fraser tree
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A beautiful fake one.
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None at all now, I don't celebrate christmas. When I did, an artificial because it's just a decoration, only has to be purchased once every ten years or less, is technically safer (live trees are not allowed in most leases), and it simply seems a waste of a tree to cut it down, prop it up and look at it for a couple weeks and throw it out after it spent 10 years growing up to that size.
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I have fake ones. I had to retire my tree last year and was going to buy a new one this year but finances to a turn for the worst so my kids have a 6 inch tree in the living room on the entertanment center nice uh.
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I dont use one anymore, however when I did, it was a fake one. I dont believe that all the Christmas hype is worth the life of one tree.
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Neither. I'm allergic to the real ones and the cats get sick from eating the needles off the artificial one. (All the unanswered questions out there and I had to answer this one three separate times.)
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i won't knock fake trees, but i always go real. i also look for charlie brown trees.
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I have a really good artifical tree. People will ask if it's real. I do miss the smell of a real tree though.
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Fake. We've always had fake- except like two years ago and that was annoying because it was sticky and sappy and the needles fell everywhere and poked you. Most people have real trees as a tradition. But putting up our fake one is all I've ever known, so it's more of a tradition to me. :D
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Fake and several (it's a big house). We usually get a couple of small rosemary plants (I have no idea what kind) that smell very much like pine. I don't see any point in chopping down nice trees just to throw them out a few weeks later.
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Real, I hate Fake trees.
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I really don't mind. Not to sound corny here, but the spirit is all that matters.
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I know it's bad for the environmnt but for me it has to be a real one. Without that smell of pine at Christmas, it just wouldn't be the same.
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Real all the way.
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For me alone, fake. For me with family, especially with kids around, real. I used to feel concern about the loss of the trees to the environment, but that is unnecessary because of the commercial growing farms that plant specifically for this purpose, and for use of cast-off trees in preventing soil erosion. For the excitement they bring into the secular celebration of Christmas, a real tree is a bargain.
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Give me a break there are 5 months to go before that debate is necessary but if you want my current thinking. They look so nice where they are why destroy them . Fake here we go, but then they don't look as nice do they? Principles out of the window. Who cares how they look in the fields a real one is best.
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Fake... I dont enjoy fishing needles out of the carpet for the next year!
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Real. I love the way it smells.
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Real, real, real. To me, there's something terribly tacky about faux trees, plants and flowers. It's Christmas, it's once a year...spring for a tree. They're replenishable.
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Fake. What's the point of killing trees so we can string them up and watch them die? Gross.
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The vast number of Christmas trees come from TREE FARMS, where they are grown for one main purpose only...to BECOME Christmas Trees! In most places, unless you own your own land, it is illegal to stroll out and just "cut your own" off of "wild" land. I like Real ones best, I love the smell. Even better are potted ones that I can eventually plant on my property! I bought a Norfolk Island Pine when I was married and 21. Melissa served as our Christmas Tree (although there is NO pine scent on this type of tree) for about 5 to 7 years...even after the divorce. When she became too big, or her pot was too big (1/2 oak barrel) she was dressed for the winter with assorted bird feeding treats and kept outside. She then was planted when I bought my first house and has grown rather a lot. She started out being about 4 foot the first year...I'm 49 now, so I've had her 18 years if I did the math correctly... And here she is in all her glory! MELISSA (She's on the left of the photo)
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Real, just like them that way. Feel sorry about the environment though.
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Fake all the way. Real ones are too much trouble.
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It's a very nice looking fake. As in REALLY nice. Very full, fluffy, over two metres high, sort of light to medium soft green colour with lighter coloured tips. Beautiful shape and quite wide at the base. We put it up in the centre of our living area in front of a large floor to ceiling bay window on the 1st of december each year and take it down on the 31st. We decorate it in a theme colour of gold and cream or silver and white on alternate years as this has special meaning for us. We also place angel candles along the window sill behind it in memory of those who can't be with us at this special time in our lives.
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REAL. Love the smell, don't mind the work that it takes because its only for a short while. There's something lacking about a fake Christmas tree. To me, at least.
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Fake fibre optic one - lovely.
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I have a fake one at my mom's and a real one at my dad's. Once I put the fake tree together I leave it that way, predecorated and all. No watering necessary. It's a lot easier. But with the real one, we play Christmas music as we decorate. It livens the mood. Also you can smell the pine all over the house. Watering and needles falling can be a problem. One time my grandpa and I cut down a real one and when we came home to stand it up, it fell over and a bird's nest landed in his hair. Cutting down one is not an easy job. Make sure the saw isn't dull.
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Artificial Christmas trees are better for the environment, IMHO.
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Artificial....I've never had a real one
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artificial - i have a small apt - i go for the Christmas candles more than anything
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Real tree every time You cant beat the pine scent and the look of the tree when its decorated
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I have a good fake tree which many people commented look like a real one. I dont miss the pine needles and cleaning after a tree.
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Artificial, I never like the real trees.
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I love the smell of a tree in the house so we usually get a real one, sometimes though instead of getting a tree we'll set up a nice little alter and adorn it with pine from outside of our house, in honor of our pagan background.
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artificial, only had a real one once, and it was too much work, lol!
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The first few years, we put up real ones, but having to clean up after it is a real pain, and while I don't really feel guilty about killing the trees because they were planted for precisely that purpose, I do feel guilty about spending that much money on one each year when it just dies. Nice symbolism there, eh? So more recently, we've put up an artificial one, and I enjoy it, and not having to clean up so much!
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both! we have 1 real one, and every room has a fake one!
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Artificial Christmas Tree this year
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We put up an artificial one. I love the smell of a fresh real tree, but, they TOTALLY KILL me with my allergies !!
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I rather go for an actual Christmas tree. Just seems a lot better than a fake one. LOL.
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a real one..I prefer to use less resources and more biodegradable things..and Christmas trees are now grown like fields of lettuce.
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Lately we have been using potted plants as Christmas trees. They don't always look like a Christmas tree, more like something from a tropical climate, but we don't needlessly cut down a living tree.
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