Real v Fake (Tips On Christmas Trees: Fake vs Real)

Member Name: stephiem

Product:	Tips On Christmas Trees: Fake vs Real
Date:	30/10/08 (35 review reads)
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Advantages: Real the smell, fun of choosing it

Disadvantages: Shedding the needles, Cost

When I was a child we always had a fake christmas tree, we had a dog who would always be knocking the tree over. So my mum refused to get a real one due to the mess it would make being pushed over.

As I got to my teens it was always me and my friend who decorated our tree, I loved it (except putting the lights on it), it was a tradition and I loved doing it, I would put xmas music on and spend hours getting the tree perfect. As much as I always wanted a real one becuase my friends had one I loved my perfectly decorated fake one.

It was alway a big tree approx 6ft mum and dad brought it from our local garden centre.

When I brought my first house with my boyfriend I insisted on getting a real tree, I loved it although I thought it was strange it not being perfect like my previous fake tree. Off we went to the garden centre and didnt have a clue what type to get all I knew was I wanted a nondrop. So we ended up with a nordic pine 5ft tree. We paid around £20 for the 5ft tree. They bundled it up in the net bag and off home we went.

That year the smell was amazing, we left it for 24 to stand at home before decorating to let it settle (thats what I was told to do). It lasted around 3 weeks before it started to shed all its needles.

For the last 7 years we have continued to buy fake trees, the most fun is going to choose it and getting the xmasy feeling...

But this year we make go fake as we have an 11 month old and I dont fancy him hoovering all the needles up!!! Where to put it is the question as far out of his reach as possible.

My overall opinion is I love real trees for the smell and the fun of choosing it, but Artificial are a great alternative and cheaper over the years.

Merry Christmas

Summary: Whatever you get the fun is in the decorating.