Christmas Trees
 

Do you already have your tree up and decorated?
Is it a real tree or an artifical one? Which do you prefer?

We decorate the house but the tree not so much. we have a small plastic tree that lights up when plugged in. I don't mind so much really it means we don't have to have a mess after the real tree.

I used to put up fake trees. No, not one or two...but like twenty. I'm not kidding either. My mom and I used to make a forest of Christmas trees but I haven't put up any trees in years since I no longer celebrate Christmas.

We have a fake one - just put it up this past weekend and I finished decorating it today. I love real trees, but my mom is allergic, so I'll have to wait til I have my own place someday.

I also have a mini white tree that I put up in my room. Haven't gotten that one fully together yet.

I have my tree up but not many of my decorations as i ahve to find them first. hen figure out where to put them as i don't have a lot of space 'shrugs' BUT my tree is artaficial..and i never really 'took it down' cause it sso tiny i jus tpu tit away. decorated and all.

We've always used real trees in our family. I love decorating the trees with all the different decorations, especially ornaments. We don't have our tree up yet, thought.

We use two huge artificial ones in our house. The angel one we decorate with white, crystal, and blue ornaments and the other tree is my mom's bird tree which is red and filled with bird decorations. The white tree is the main one we put our presents under and celebrate Christmas around. We also made an ornament for my dog that I grew up with since I was 3 who passed when I was 16 or 17 ((i'll be 21 in a few days)) and that gets hung up right next to where I want to sit to open my gifts.

The bird tree is mainly my mothers because she dedicates her life to saving wild and domesticated birds that are injured. I plan to find more bird ornaments for her this Christmas. Both trees are in different room so nothing gets cluttered.

We used to put up our nine foot (twelve foot ceilings) artificial tree every year, but lately my mom's been too busy to and I don't believe in Santa so I see no reason to. It's just too much trouble with it just being the two of us. But for two years we left it up for the entire time and decorated it for each month. It was so much fun. We have to have artificial because if we get a real tree, I swell up like a balloon and my throat closes and I spend Christmas in the hospital.

I have to fight with my boyfriend every year to get a real tree for Christmas. I don't like fake ones, they don't smell the same and I don't want to have to store them.

The first part of my life, we had a fake tree. My maternal grandmother gave it to us and all of the branches were removed every year. The branches had paint on the tips of them that coordinated with their position on the tree, but the paint scratched off so it got harder and harder to tell where each branch went.
When we moved to Michigan, my dad threw the tree away (without telling anyone beforehand) and since then he made us go out and get a real tree.
When my parents divorced, my mom got a fake tree again so there's always artifical trees at her house; my dad got a real tree and every year, he gets one (except last year... his new wife made him get a white artifical tree) Not sure if he's going to have a real one or not.
My in-laws have an artifical tree which is a 10 ft. beast of a tree to get up. It's pre-lit and it takes up a ton of space (stored or not)

We live in California now and we have yet to put up a tree, but when we do... it will be fake. That's the type of tree I prefer.

I don't like that people put up their trees so early. Its dumb. But I like fake ones better because they don't shed so there's no mess.

Usually we put up our tree right after Thanksgiving, but I don't think we'll be putting it up till a week before Christmas. See, my grandma bought a puppy a few months ago and he likes to tear everything apart. Also, the tree is artificial, but I think I prefer real ones. It's been a few years since we've had a real one, though, so~ I might just prefer none at all. XD In fact, I'll probably only have a really small one when I get older.

Well, we usually put up our tree a few weeks before Christmas, and if we're lucky and don't forget about the tree being in our huge living room, we can get it down before summer starts! :XD

Seriously, though, that's how lazy we are.

I prefer artificial trees, because I've got pretty bad experiences from buying fresh Christmas trees.

I have an artificial tree up, but I absolutely adore real trees. They may be a hassle and consist of alot of clean up, but they smell amazing, and are always full and beautiful. While the fake trees have so many openings to see the center pole, and you have to sit there for almost an hour pluck and spreading the branches to make it voluminous.

I don't have nor am I putting up a tree, but I prefer the artificial kind.

They come in different colors and they're more than one time use. I am buying nothing that's one time use unless it's cheap.

My dad raised me to believe that artificial trees are blasphemous in every way. And I agree with him. :P

To me, a huge part of Christmas is walking into the house and smelling pine. Just gets me in the spirit more than anything.

I have a 6ft artificial tree, I love it once it's up and decorated, but I don't enjoy putting it up or decorating it because I don't have enough choice of decorations. I think what I might do this year is string fairy lights round my bookshelves instead.

I don't approve of people cutting down trees so they can die for Christmas. But then I don't like cut flowers for the same reason. They both look lovely, but they're dying. Leave them outside growing, or have the living plant indoors.

I love the idea of having a live tree in a pot each year then having somewhere to plant it outside afterwards, so that years down the line you'd have your own little grove of fir trees, that would be wonderful. But how many people have the room to be able to do that? Maybe one day :)