Real christmas tree or fake?
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Curious, why do you think that?
I'd hate to be constantly cleaning up needles from the tree, but nothing beats the smell of a freshly cut Christmas tree
Right now we have a fake pre-lit tree, it's decently real looking, and lit up, it almost looks like it has a light dusting of snow
needles really aren't a big deal if you use a big enough christmas tree skirt. just let them land on it. we have a 11 month old so we just keep a gate around the tree and she can't get to it. it is more work though, especially if you're cutting down your own tree like I did yesterday lol. wife insists on it though :/
Correction...
with children = real
no children = fake
with children that like to play with matches = fake
Nothing more fun than chucking a 3 month old, dry christmas tree on a bonfire
And real all the way.
There's less than 20 needles if you get it moderately fresh.
Real is the only way to go...
We've actually gone for authentic real trees the past couple years since we moved to the mountains.
We get a permit from the forest service and go out into the national forest and chop a tree down Clark Griswold style. They aren't the farm raised crap so they aren't nearly as full and lustrious... but they're real freaking trees that you have to cut down yourself so for some reason they are just 100X better.
We've actually gone for authentic real trees the past couple years since we moved to the mountains.
We get a permit from the forest service and go out into the national forest and chop a tree down Clark Griswold style. They aren't the farm raised crap so they aren't nearly as full and lustrious... but they're real freaking trees that you have to cut down yourself so for some reason they are just 100X better.
I live in a big house, but I opt for fake. It's just easier. My lifestyle is too intense to try and mess with a real tree. The last time I did, it got dried up and wouldn't fit through the door when we tried to remove it...until we forced it through. There were needles turning up in the carpet years later.
Oh yeah, it's SO much fun to get a live tree.
I hate the whole process, but you gotta do it with kids. They make a big thing out of it, and spend at least 2 hours in the freezing cold at the tree farm shouting "This tree!", then finding another one in the next row. This will continue forever, until I finally have had it and just cut the last-picked tree, and as always, half-way through the cut, they shout "I don't like that one"
Then you gotta put it on a tarp and drag the 10 foot beast half a mile to the nearest bailing machine. Then you gotta drag it into your home, and get it to fit into the tree stand. Then you look back at the trail of wet needles and melted snow over your hardwood floors. Then you gotta water the damn thing every day, and lie on your back and slide under it to reach the stand/water container, needles and bulbs falling on your face.
Then it's decorated, and you're proud of yourself.
Then you refuse to take it down. Because you know it's gonna be another pain in the ass. New Years hits.. tree stays. Mid-january, you're still lookin' at it. Then in the final week of the month you realize you gotta get rid of it, and you drag the dried thing out where it's left to die and wait for the city to pick up.
/scrooge
I hate the whole process, but you gotta do it with kids. They make a big thing out of it, and spend at least 2 hours in the freezing cold at the tree farm shouting "This tree!", then finding another one in the next row. This will continue forever, until I finally have had it and just cut the last-picked tree, and as always, half-way through the cut, they shout "I don't like that one"
Then you gotta put it on a tarp and drag the 10 foot beast half a mile to the nearest bailing machine. Then you gotta drag it into your home, and get it to fit into the tree stand. Then you look back at the trail of wet needles and melted snow over your hardwood floors. Then you gotta water the damn thing every day, and lie on your back and slide under it to reach the stand/water container, needles and bulbs falling on your face.
Then it's decorated, and you're proud of yourself.
Then you refuse to take it down. Because you know it's gonna be another pain in the ass. New Years hits.. tree stays. Mid-january, you're still lookin' at it. Then in the final week of the month you realize you gotta get rid of it, and you drag the dried thing out where it's left to die and wait for the city to pick up.
/scrooge
High-end pre-lit fake- put it up in 10 minutes, and start decorating...breaks down into three nice sections that fit into a huge rubbermaid container in minutes, and stows on a garage shelf.
That and a pine-scented candle and you are good to go. Just buy quality- a really good model will go $4-500 bucks or so, but at 100 a year for a nice tree, that's a pretty good payoff and ROI.
20 years plus now, and the thing is still beautiful as the day we bought it.
No-brainer, kids or not.
That and a pine-scented candle and you are good to go. Just buy quality- a really good model will go $4-500 bucks or so, but at 100 a year for a nice tree, that's a pretty good payoff and ROI.
20 years plus now, and the thing is still beautiful as the day we bought it.
No-brainer, kids or not.
