Christmas Tree, real or fake??

[Jessika]

My parents have a "fake" tree. It's cheaper, more convenient, and the cats won't try to mark it if some wild animal marked it at one point in time haha.

And it has 'fake' snow on it and is just gorgeous!

[chocolatepuppy]

This is my first year with a fake tree. I'm really looking forward to putting it up earlier. I hated waiting until a few weeks before Christmas to put up the real one. This tree is going up this weekend!

[Laura's Babies]

I will not put up a tree this year since I will be working and gone... But last year, I bought a small, optical,, table top tree and that is what I would put up if I were home. I am not into the real ones, they make me ITCH!

[slick]

I'm in a condo so it's a fire hazard to have a real tree, although I'd love to have one. My "artificial" tree is up now and I'm starting to put the lights on. One good thing about it, is that I can keep it up for months and the needles don't fall.

[Corinna]

We always had real tree for my christmas baby(born christmas eve) but i hate the mess and get no help putting it up so I now have a great looking fake one. Piece of cake to out up by myself.
For the christmas smells I use a mix of candles.

[Tollers-n-Dobes]

My family has always had artificial/"fake" trees. We prefer them because they don't leave a huge mess, they don't need to be watered and you can leave them up as long as you want without worrying about it dying.

[anna_66]

We haven't put one up for quite a few years now, but when we do it's fake.

[cyber-sibes]

We do both. We put lights all over a 20-foot tall blue spruce in the yard, it's beautiful! I also decorate my memorial "Rosie tree" little blue spruce with stuff for the birds & some ornaments. Got one of those narrow log-trunk trees last year for indoors, no mess, easy to put up (just carry it down from the loft) and looks great!

[Alysser]

We had a real tree to years ago. But of course, Sassy being the little curious mutt, went up to it and started pulling on the tree skirt. Then, the bad little mutt knocked the whole thing on HERSELF and ME! It was scary and it hurt. My mom was cleaning up the mess for two whole days and I was sore for three. So, we have a fake tree now thanks to the little freak of a mutt.

[Alysser]

Oh yeah, and Sunny(bird) kept flying into the tree and I had to find him without knocking down any of the ornaments. I really miss that. I only had two christmas with him.

[mina'smomma]

We have a fake tree because even though I like the smell of pine it doesn't like me back and keeps me so miserable that I can't sleep.