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[Outdated]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.

 

[Jumpinbare]

After moving to Florida that became impossible. Now I only have an artificial.

The Ocala National forest in Central Florida opens an area for people to cut their own Christmas trees each year. I don't know if the other Nation Forests in Florida do that or not.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

If you really need a live tree, blue spruce is gorgeous through very hard to find, nothing better than seeing a live growing blue spruce outside decorated.

 

[Kirsty]

I heard recently that people saw the bottom of the tree so it can be fed water daily. I’ve never had a real tree, but one of my aunties has had one.

 

[FayetheAspie]

I heard recently that people saw the bottom of the tree so it can be fed water daily. I’ve never had a real tree, but one of my aunties has had one.

The amount of water varies according to the tree but you should check on it every day. Another option is a potted one that is transferred outside and planted after Christmas if you would like one that you can keep. It will need water as well though.

 

[Xinyta]

I personally prefer artificial trees. A live tree would be cool, but a mess. A functioning artificial tree, with lights and decorations is just more satisfying for me.

In fact. Me and my Uncle put up our tree on the 15th. It already has some wrapped gifts under it.

 

[velociraptor]

I won't have a real tree in my home since one caused a house fire in my youth. I realize we have LED bulbs now, but it's still a hard no for me.

 

[Gerontius]

Haven't got a Christmas tree in my home, but I love living trees. They smell so much nicer than an empty house and the lack of plastic perfection is closer to how I like a Christmas tree to look. One year when I was very small I remember we had a lovely Eastern red cedar, and after Christmas we took it and replanted it in the soil where it had come from so it could keep growing. How good those branches smell!

 

[Kirsty]

I won't have a real tree in my home since one caused a house fire in my youth. I realize we have LED bulbs now, but it's still a hard no for me.

OMG. What about an artificial tree?

 

[velociraptor]

OMG. What about an artificial tree?

We have that, but my wife is unhappy with it. The cats love it, which isn't a good thing.

 

[Kirsty]

We have that, but my wife is unhappy with it. The cats love it, which isn't a good thing.

Oh well, you can’t win them all. I understand how hard it can be. Some women and cats are difficult species to deal with.

 

[Shevek]

I'll only use the original, and only if it is very handy to obtain - fresh logging slash.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

My Christmas tree this year, collected on a walk. Pine cone, of course. Red is wild coffee berries and the white are seeds of little bluestem grass.

 

[Judge]

We have that, but my wife is unhappy with it. The cats love it, which isn't a good thing.

One fond memory of Christmases past. We used to hang all the unbreakable, soft plastic ornaments on the lowest branches of a tree. All for our cat....so she could bang away without bringing it all down.

Back then all our trees were the real thing.

 

[Rachie]

I cannot say I have a preference of such. I have tried everything pretty much. Not though the black tree's and the other colourful ones like was all the rage a few years back....
I have also stayed away from really big trees. I have though tried real and artifical fibre trees. I had a white optic tree which I loved and saved up for.

I now have a mini tabletop it is final edition one by Laura Ashley I think, it is a white one which is frosted and I hang balls on.

The real trees look so nice, but the dropping was a bit difficult for me. I posted a link to my decorations here. I have also got given a Christingle i which is beautiful. The orange represents the world. I was given this after I posted to the link below.
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