Real 100% USA grown. 100% recyclable. None of this plastic made in China stuff. In fact I helped to pay for a weeks vacation at a Chinese factory. What have you done to help the environment in China?
To me it is the ornaments, not the tree they are on. All of mine have meaning and history.
And my children would say it is the presents under the tree, not the tree. They would probably vote for artificial, so there are no pokey needles to dig through for presents.
Real. They're not even hard to set up or anything, and the needle loss is a non issue with the right tree (and with one that sheds a lot, it's still not that bad, assuming you don't set yours up on carpet).
Looks so much better. Smells better. Is more fun, etc..
If only the real trees came with lights already strung then I would change my vote. We invested in a "better" artificial tree and it looks very real but I miss the smell.
@MrMark yes. Saw those sticks at lowes. You hang them inside the tree. We actually use fresh pine garland on the mantle to get the evergreen scent. Not as strong as with a whole tree but good enough.
I am more a tree torturer then a tree killer. I dig one up every year and re-plant. it's NOT Christmas without a big smelly clump of dirt tracked in the house with a suffering tree on top.
I'd have a live tree if someone else brought it to the house and put all the lights on it and watered it every day and swept up the needles every couple of days and then took it out of the house and disposed of it and cleaned up all the needles left in the house.
@hallmike I have more evergreen trees sprouting in my yard then I could keep up with "murdering" one a year (they become mulch regardless of season). Go go evergreen state.
Growing up, I never really had a real tree, my wife either. That was for the rich folk who could just throw away tens of dollars every year on shenanigans. So of course now I HAVE to always get a real tree. But the needles, man.. the needles.
Real 100% USA grown. 100% recyclable. None of this plastic made in China stuff. In fact I helped to pay for a weeks vacation at a Chinese factory. What have you done to help the environment in China?
HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!
@Fish_Kungfu Festivus has already come and gone.
To me it is the ornaments, not the tree they are on. All of mine have meaning and history.
And my children would say it is the presents under the tree, not the tree. They would probably vote for artificial, so there are no pokey needles to dig through for presents.
Real. They're not even hard to set up or anything, and the needle loss is a non issue with the right tree (and with one that sheds a lot, it's still not that bad, assuming you don't set yours up on carpet).
Looks so much better. Smells better. Is more fun, etc..
If only the real trees came with lights already strung then I would change my vote. We invested in a "better" artificial tree and it looks very real but I miss the smell.
@jimmyd103 you could always get some sort of pine essential oil. Then you can have artifical smell to go with the artifical tree. It would feel real.
@MrMark yes. Saw those sticks at lowes. You hang them inside the tree. We actually use fresh pine garland on the mantle to get the evergreen scent. Not as strong as with a whole tree but good enough.
Where is the option of I'm allergic...
no real trees belong in houses...
they belong planted outside, no mess to clean up for the spouses...
:)
I really have to stop the rhyming... but after watching how Murry saved Christmas...
I am more a tree torturer then a tree killer. I dig one up every year and re-plant. it's NOT Christmas without a big smelly clump of dirt tracked in the house with a suffering tree on top.
I'd have a live tree if someone else brought it to the house and put all the lights on it and watered it every day and swept up the needles every couple of days and then took it out of the house and disposed of it and cleaned up all the needles left in the house.
Otherwise I'll have an artificial tree.
Nothing says "festive" like murdering a tree.
@hallmike I have more evergreen trees sprouting in my yard then I could keep up with "murdering" one a year (they become mulch regardless of season). Go go evergreen state.
Growing up, I never really had a real tree, my wife either. That was for the rich folk who could just throw away tens of dollars every year on shenanigans. So of course now I HAVE to always get a real tree. But the needles, man.. the needles.
@h1p1n3 That tree needs water...
real ones but I cant have one because of allergies.
This is what our tree looks like.