Christmas Tree Preferences

[FayetheAspie]

I love Christmas trees and personally the real ones are my favorite. They are beautiful and I also love the smell and the feel of the real evergreen trees.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

No tree needed, this year son and sister having celebrations.

 

[Tom]

I do like real, but with age I appreciate ease of set up and economy more. In fact I have even tried to keep it set up and decorated and then stashed in a back room that was also kept decorated - my Christmas all year room. But it never works and someone needs the room/space and I have to take it down.

 

[TBRS1]

I, also, prefer a real tree, but considering that only S.O. and I would see it, seems like cutting down a tree is overkill (although pines do grow like weeds here).

Also, my ethnic/cultural background regards cutting trees for "the wrong reason" as grossly rude.

But - if people are going to gather together in groups, as families and friends, around an evergreen as a symbol of something meaningful, then that would be a "right reason."

That is a good thing.

 

[Outdated]

I haven't celebrated Christmas in over 30 years, no decorations, no cards, no presents, no tree. Every now and then some idiot will get it in to their head that I must be lonely and try to force me to come to a Christmas Party, absolutely not something I would enjoy. My only consolation towards Christmas is that I'll phone my only friend and his wife to wish them well.

 

[SusanLR]

I liked real when I was younger. Living in Missouri then, we could go to the woods and cut our own.

After moving to Florida that became impossible. Now I only have an artificial. Already decorated in silver and gold with lights in it. Just plug it in. Not too big and always pretty.
Always stored it in the back room, but in a smaller place it will be stored on an enclosed porch area.