MMmm hard one to decide........ a good real tree always looks better, but I have yet to find a rememby for 'needle droppage' that actually works ( is there another thread in the making there ?) fake are cheaper and far cleaner............ think on balance I would have to go with fake cause I is an idle git and anything thats gunna create more work has got to be a bad thing lol
christmas????, havnt we just had one?????
on a serious note,
i prefer fake, although real looks good and smells great, it's all down to needle droppage, i have a cat and dog, and i have had problems in the past, where the needles have gotten into thier paws, and cost me a fortune at the vets, also it's the disposal bit i dont like, (here comes the green bit), what a waste..it gets cut down!! a perfectly healthy plant, and it gets killed off. they look so much better in the open, growing wild. do what i do, i have one growing in the garden, decorate that, and have a fake for indoors.
Prefer real ones.. but we had one last year and it's still turning brown and dropping needles all over back of garage.. nooooo way i'm letting it in my car to take it to tip.
maybee fake this year
G
K & G
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I prefer real to fake. Real feels better, looks more natural, is a lot more maliable and has droop.
Fake is considered a lot cheaper and of poor quality. Very often made of plastic and a lot harder to the normal touch.
Oh has to be real for me.
Christmas is just not the same without a real tree stolen from a neighboring farmer(who I once asked if I could have tree - he's got a couple of thousand ffs - and he said no) in a last of the summer wine type late night expedition which costs me more in beer than it would cost me to go and buy a fantastic souper douper top of the range fibre optic jobbie.
Its not one of those specially treated none needle drop types - so even though I don't get it until Christmas eve - it will be completely bald by lunch time on Christmas Day. Its hand selected by 3 pissed up fishermen with even less of an eye for stylish interiors than Linda Barker so its quite likely to be about 12 feet high but with branches only every 3 feet.
Last year it was about 3 metres across at the bottom but with no branches at all on the top 3 feet. It bore an uncanny resemblance to Anna from the King and I. (I found myself swirling round it singing "Shall we Dance" at every opportunity).
I love it - would never swap it for a real one. I can't imagine opening the Trivial Pursuits and not finding old pine needles in.
But there's a lot of pumpkins to be carved before then.
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