Real tree

I don’t really want to do a tree to begin with but if my wife’s gonna make me do it I’m going to do it right.

Also I don’t have to wrestle the damn thing up and down the rickety ladder to my attic, it’s bad enough that I have to do that with the bins of ornaments.

And I get the catharsis of getting to burn the damn thing after the season is over.

Also it gives my house a slight piney scent.

We get a real one from our neighbor, he does yardwork & sod most of the year but at Christmas he gets some trees to sell from some guy he knows in N Carolina and they are always amazing all of them. Yes it costs a lot, we have a large family who come for Christmas and it’s nice, I categorize the expense as entertaining.

When I was poor, I would just make a “tree” each year out of something. One year the coat rack, one year on the wall in construction paper, one year I found a inflatable one like a beach ball, one year my ex cut the top off a bush & hedged it into a cone - that went on for almost 20 years, always something different. My kids didn’t mind at all, nobody ever said “you need a tree” only “cool”. You don’t need a tree. Don’t feel obligated at all.

At work I have a wee artificial one.

We ‘rent’ a real tree. After Christmas we bring it back and they re plant it.

Fake one. Bought it a decade ago and its still doing just fine.

I use a real tree because I have cats that would eat the plastic one, and I feel that plastic trees are worse for the environment.

A real tree 🎄 The smell and the beautiful imperfection, that is Christmas 🥰

Real Christmas tree, fresh from a farm about 2km from here.

none, my house keeps getting messy despite expending few hours of cleaning every week, no time for extra chores

Neither, I have a 5 foot tall Gumby instead. It was a carnival prize and is wrapped in lights and decorated with smaller Gumbys, Pokeys, Blockheads, Prickle and Goo. No Nopey though.

I’d be fine with a fake one, but my wife prefers real ones, so that’s what we do.

@butterycroissant one of my imfant memories is going to woods somewhere so my mum could steal the christmas tree, its a good memorie :)

nowadays its artificial for sure, i am to pussy to steal things

Bucket tree, tree in a bucket. Have the tree in your house in a bucket, bucket is in the house with the tree in a bucket. Move bucket inside with the tree in the bucket, or outside once you’re done with bucket tree.

I use an artificial, don’t see the point of cutting down a whole tree for it to slowly die in your house over a month to then throw it out after.

If there were more services where you could rent the tree and then it gets put back in the ground after the season I would be all for it.

Artificial trees you buy once and you don’t need to replace it for years if not decades. Though would prefer if they started making them with biodegradable plastic

we have a saying at our house, ‘its not christmas until you you kill something’

thus, its always a live tree

Used to throw a Christmas tree festival. We have artificials we got from that.