Messy or Clean? Real or Fake? Cool Yule or looks like a mule!!! (Tips On Christmas Trees: Fake vs Real)

Member Name: andycharger

Product:	Tips On Christmas Trees: Fake vs Real
Date:	09/11/00 (66 review reads)
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Advantages: Look nice

Disadvantages: Always drop needles

Real Trees! Arent they nice? Lovely Pine trees living in their natural enviroment, an English living room!
Im sorry but this is a silly tradition.
Chop down a tree, stick it in a block of wood and put it in your house.
Shortly afterwards, it will lose all of its needles because:
a) It does not like being in warm enviroments
b) Its Dead.
Without the life force, it will let go of all its needles. This is the point that you rue the day you bought that long shag pile carpet as the bits wont hoover.
Even trees bought with the root ball attached have probably been exposed roots first to the drying winds so they are as good as dead. Even if they survive all of this, they wont like a warm house so will give up the will to live.
So what are your alternatives?
A lovely artificial plastic tree? I do hope not. These things are the ultimate in tackiness along with "kiss me Quick" hats at Blackppol pleasure beach. Even the new "real look" ones that are quite good are, well, plastic! You could go all high tech and buy a fibre optic one but they are for posh yuppies in London, not for families.
As most of the population of Britain think:

A PINE TREE IS NOT FOR LIFE, ITS JUST FOR CHRISTMAS!!!

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