Real or fake?

Jobo88

For the last few years we've always had a real tree, but I just find that although I love the ritual of going to choose your tree, bringing it home and the smell and all that, I do enjoy a fake tree just as much and in fact purchased a nice one along with loads of lovely decs to go on it in the January sales, so been looking forward to using that one all year!

Jo xx

Cliecost

I grew up with picking a real one with my family and putting it up. Needles dropping and being vacuumed.

Now I have my own family I'd love to do the same but the wife insists on fake, so I have no choice lol.

Brambleberry

Having grown up with real trees, even cutting our own on occasion, I thought I would never settle for artificial.
I succumbed when helping my parents choose one as I found one that looked pretty realistic and very bushy. It was expensive at the time so not very MSE, but compared to the cost of the real trees I used to buy, it has now been used for so many years that it has now paid for itself and still looks set to last many more.

I do miss the smell though - who knows the best real tree substitute fragrance to use?

toontron

My heart says real, but due to the fact that I can never get "the perfect tree" I am going with my head this year and going back to artificial.

DigForVictory

We had a sensational real tree one year - looked & smelled glorious. As the days passed though, the needles were to be found Everywhere & after the hellacious crash when it fell over? Well, we rather decided that artificial trees, decorated to the point of risking the limb ripping off, was the preferred route.
We've an assortment of articial ones (one son has his own Black 4' - it was in the january sales) & really now only dicker over which particular decorations.
The all glass year was beautiful if a bit nervewracking. The stuff a theme, let's put on Everything year led to the startling agreement that sometimes less is more.
This year? I expect I'll find out nearer the time - we haven't an Official Tree Day (yet!)

PenguinOfDeath

Fake for us, a lot cheaper and more efficient. Plus I can't say I'm overly keen on the smell of a real one

Buzzybee90

Fake, parents also have fake. OH's parents have real. We had real a couple of times when younger but my mum was so annoyed with the constant hoovering! I do think real look better but fake are much less hassle. You can get some really nice artificial ones nowadays.

bethl79

We have an artificial one which we bought in the sales around 15 years ago. It still looks nice and bushy though, even though it gets attacked/pounced on every night by our mad cat!

LittleMissGiggles123

Artificial for us.


We had a real tree around 8 years ago (first year in our new house, threw our old artificial one away before the move). It was lovely but I think we overwatered it or something because one morning we heard an almighty crash, went down to the living room & the trunk had basically gone to mush so the tree fell over & there was water, needles & Christmas decorations all over my living room floor. We managed to prop it up for the remainder of the Christmas period, but I decided against having a real one again.


We bought our artificial one the following year, I think it was from B&Q or Homebase. It is lovely, very bushy, has white lights on it already & at the tips of some of the branches it has tiny plastic tips so the lights reflect off this & it just shines, its beautiful. The decorations are slightly coordinated but over the years we have accumulated many Disney decorations from our holidays, so it is a bit of a mixture now.


I also have a slimmer tree in our dining room & the decorations are coordinated with the other decorations in the room & the table runner etc.


x

balletshoes

Mr_Singleton wrote: »

For a few years now I've mulling the idea of getting an artificial Christmas tree but when its came to the crunch I've always gone for a real one. Although its not a cost issue the price of real trees seems to go up every year so again this year I'm mulling the idea. I'd want something that looked as real as possible and lasted a good few years and was easy to store. Can anyone recommend anything?

Wonder what the split is.....Do you do real or artificial?

artificial - my green one doesn't look remotely real, and neither do the 2 pink ones . My mum and brother have beautiful artificial trees, but they spent over £50 each on them in the sales after Christmas (my mum's came from Dobbies garden centre, my brother's may have too).