How old is your Christmas tree?

Slinky

21-25 years

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

Wow! It'll be interesting to hear whether anyone can beat a 51 year old Christmas tree decoration!

I have a set of Christmas lights from the late 1950s...... Fortunately we bought plenty of spare bulbs when they were still being sold in Woolies in the 1970s. They usually work straight out of the box, or if not just need a loose bulb tightening up.


Inherited them from my Dad who bought them for his parents one Christmas when they couldn't find the handmade set (he was an electrician) he made them in the 1940s.....


I love the fact they have been on 3 generations of Christmas trees.

LilElvis

This year will be our tree's 14th Christmas. MIL bought it in the January sales then downsized and it was too big for her flat so she gave it to us. I was thinking of buying a new one until I saw how much a good quality one would cost, so it's on my January Sales list along with all the wrapping paper, crackers etc for next Christmas.

gardner1

Under a year / Real tree

Well we have a real one but its 9 years old according to rings on trunk

Dizzy_Ditzy

11-15 years

Ours is on its 10th year out - we bought it 11 years ago but for some reason last year we decided to have a real tree. After all the aggro of clearing up after the real one last year, it was back to the old faithful this year

nwc389

21-25 years

We moved into our house in 1995 and bought our tree for that Christmas so it’s 23 years old . Lost a couple of branches but still looks good .

Gloomendoom

Under a year / Real tree

I voted less than a year as I cut the one in our house down last Monday. However, we are currently at our holiday place in Wales and the decorated tree here is planted in the garden. I bought it as a Christmas tree in a pot in 1995, so 23 years old and thriving.

Never had a fake tree.

gardner1

Under a year / Real tree

Dizzy_Ditzy wrote: »

Ours is on its 10th year out - we bought it 11 years ago but for some reason last year we decided to have a real tree. After all the aggro of clearing up after the real one last year, it was back to the old faithful this year

complete opposite for us......hate spending 1.5 hr putting the bl00dy thing together & down 7ft tall......so £30 on real tree is a bargain

Deep_In_Debt

Mine is about 15 years old but it hasn't been put up for the last few years due to cats pulling it down again. Some of the decorations are very old; they belonged to my maternal grandmother when she was a child. She died in 1974 so some of the decorations have too much sentimental value to have them kicked around the house by the cats.

I did invest in a fibre optic tree about 10 years ago but not put it up for a couple of years and not sure I will bother this year with it either.

DD265

1-5 years

I think ours is coming into it's second Christmas, but we aren't putting it up at all this year as the cats won't leave it alone.

The one before that was in it's 20s and a hand me down. We only got rid of it because we'd planned to buy a really good quality (and therefore expensive) artificial tree to last forever, then we got the cats and thought we'd best test them out with a cheap one first.

Good job

Robisere

26+ years

I inherited the tree (Plastic, now suffering from needle drop after being a damp shed.)


It was the wife's tree during her first disastrous marriage: he kept a lot of stuff but we manged to get the tree and decorations, including the fairy. I think it must be over 50 years old now.


Both Tree and fairy are being consigned to the council dump after Christmas. Fairy keeps falling off: must be getting into the Christmas Spirit! Needles all over the floor and it's a new carpet.