The annual 'real or fake Christmas Tree' debate

[Bozza]

Real here.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Can't beat a real one.

 

[Shoreham Gull]

My misses prefers real, not plastic

 

[dazzer6666]

My misses prefers real, not plastic

But you can put a plastic one up over and over again, no bits fall off and it doesn't start to look tatty after a few uses.

 

[El Sid]

Real tree prices are outrageous. Seen some at 8 quid a foot.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Real.

But when does it go up?

 

[Bozza]

Real.

But when does it go up?

That was going to be the second part of this. For us, it's going to be this Sunday (the 7th). It feels too early but because of slightly complicated family mechanics, it's the day we have to do it.

 

[8ace]

No tree - f*ck that shit.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Fake, pre lit, bung it up, take it down, shove it in the loft.
It goes up around 20th when Christmas starts and not today like Good morning Britain. Cant believe they had 2 trees up this morning I would be bored with it by Christmas Eve.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

My son and his girlfriend ordered an inflatable xmas tree off Amazon. They got sent an inflatable cactus.

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

The mother in law is very traditional, has a real tree with real candles in it as decorations. I mean actual fire, in a tree, inside a house

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

No tree - f*ck that shit.

I bet your curtains are made from bin liners too.

 

[Reagulls]

6ft cactus (euphorbia tbh) with Brighton and Hove Albion baubles... hung on today .. It's December

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Real. I have a beautiful 6'6" Nordmann nestling in the corner at the House of Earle, laden with nostalgic baubles collected over 34 years of wedded bliss to Mrs Earle.
Looking forward to the poll on Cut or Rooted and Potted!

 

[Westdene Seagull]

That was going to be the second part of this. For us, it's going to be this Sunday (the 7th). It feels too early but because of slightly complicated family mechanics, it's the day we have to do it.

Ours goes up this weekend for two reasons :

a. The Mrs demands it
b. VERY complicated family mechanics

Hopefully it will last until the sixth of January. Feeding it lemonade worked a treat last year.

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

6ft cactus (euphorbia tbh) with Brighton and Hove Albion baubles... hung on today .. It's December

Are you [MENTION=29428]Tom h[/MENTION]ark, Preston Park's son?

 

[GT49er]

A real one - all the time, every time...........

So long as it's a live one, with roots on, that can be planted in the garden and dug up and brought back in year after year. For as long as you're young enough and strong enough, that is, and as long as the missis doesn't whinge too much about hoovering up the needles (this last is a minor consideration by the way!)

....until you get to around 50ish, and the damn thing's too feckin' big to dig up and get in the house without cutting the top off (and the missis is now about three stone heavier than you and will no longer hoover anything you tell her to) - then you go and buy an artificial one!

 

[Hampster Gull]

I have one of each as i forgot my son has an allergy. The real one is lit up in the garden, very nice

 

[Reagulls]

Are you [MENTION=29428]Tom h[/MENTION]ark, Preston Park's son?

Ha ha , Nope, mines the real thing.. Happy not to require an inflatable one just yet..

 

[MJsGhost]

I'm not one for all the Christmas fluff, but if there's one thing you've got to have, it's a decent real Christmas tree. Fake ones are just tacky shite in my opinion (and at Christmas, there is A LOT of tacky shite)