Tips On Christmas Trees: Fake vs Real Reviews

As a child we always had realy trees, my mother would spend hours decorating the tree making it look beautiful for all the pines to have fallen off way before xmas day, i never was a big fan of these other than the smell and the smell can easily be replicated with a pine smelling air freshner. After leaving home we always had artificial ...  Read the complete review

Well I confess - our Christmas tree has been up since the beginning of November this year! We usually do it on the last weekend in November but this year the first weekend in November was the last weekend that Dave and I would both be at home together without guests staying with us until the weekend before Christmas! We decided that, if we left it ...  Read the complete review

There is always a debate about the real Christmas tree versus the fake variety. Nowadays, the quality of artificial trees is excellent, and many of them are almost indistinguishable from the real kind. Both types of tree have their advantages and disadvantages. For example, a fake tree will never have that distinctive aroma that is ...  Read the complete review

Theres nothing quite like putting decorations up at christmas, as i find it a really special time and i spend ages putting all the trimmings up with my daughter, and making decorations for the windows with her. When it comes to the tree my daughter puts the angel on the top and i set all the lights on then my daughter puts the baubles ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

I have moved between real and fake trees since I got my own house over 12 years ago. As a child it was always a real tree in our house. Nothing beats that smell of a real tree and you really associate it with Christmas. In our house it could never go up before the 17th December as that was my dad's birthday. I also think it was a good ...  Read the complete review

When I was younger we always had a real Christmas tree, it was such an adventure going to get it and it was getting it that made it officially Christmas time! Mum, Dad, myself and two older Brothers would get our wellies on and go out for a drive, Dad would drive up a narrow lane and then we'd be there. All muddy and cold we would go looking ...  Read the complete review

I really love Christmas & one of the most important things for me, since being a child, has been the Christmas tree. I was born in the 1950s & the fake trees were truly horrible in those days - very bright green & very plasticy-looking so I was thrilled every year when my parents, brothers , my sister & I went to choose ...  Read the complete review

I have always been a fan of fake christmas trees so last year at the begining of december i ventured into the attic to drag out our christmas tree, it was a fiber optic tree with stars on it so all i had to do to make it look beautiful was drape a bit of tinsel around it and pop the star on the top, done. Unfortunately for my poor ...  Read the complete review

We had always had a fake christmastree up untill last year, over the years we had had various different ones ranging fron the box standard plain tree that you decorated your self to the fiber optic tree with stars and candles on it that we had last. When getting the tree out of the loft last year we realised that it had seen better days ...  Read the complete review

The heart of all holiday decorating is with the beloved Christmas tree, which represents spiritual inspiration and a wonderful family tradition and to decorate the tree with garland, beads and ornaments. Topping it all off with a beautiful tree-topper, star, or angel. (Real Trees) As retailers gear up for another season of ...  Read the complete review

If you have a real tree for Christmas there is a chance for you to put something back into the environment. When you take the decorations off your Christmas tree there is a great temptation to just take the old tree to the local tip and throw it away, but we can do better than that. Many local authorities have a re-cycling scheme ...  Read the complete review

Put up your tree yet? You'd not no it was Christmas if you hadn't!!! This year has been much like the others rushes everywhere present's to get for the family and of course all the food. But what about the tree is yours real or fake in the experience I've had fake are more expensive but in my view they're much better than ...  Read the complete review

Fake Vs Real..... Above, the night sky. Through the clouds that brought the storm, litters of glowing stars can be seen, as the persistent crack of the thunder echoes around the fighting ground. Few have chosen to gather this night, only the hardened supporters of both the real and the fake Christmas tree, who, if need be, would be lead ...  Read the complete review

Now I'm sorry, but what is the point of having a Christmas tree at all if you don't endure the trials and tribulations that come with it? The endless needles found in your shoes, jeans, bed, mouth and the infinite other places in which they hide. The utmost impossibility of getting a five foot tree home in the car from an out of ...  Read the complete review

We have only ever had a real christmas tree once and that was only after my hubby insisted. After collecting it and then having a car full of pine needles and a trail of them from the front door to the lounge he promised that the following year we would get an artificial one. We have had the artificial one for 5 years now and have 3 ...  Read the complete review

At the moment due to size of my property and a house bunny we have a fake tree. But If I had the space I know that I would have a real tree. There is nothing like a real tree the needles stuck in the carpet from one year to the next. The smell of the tree. When I was a child we had a real tree every year. We would not bring it in ...  Read the complete review

I've stuck with the good old artifical Christmas tree for as long as I can remember. We did have a real one once and whilst, yes, it did smell lovely, it did shed it's needles everywhere, it wasn't as big as we would have liked and we had the problem of disposing of it afterwards. Since then we've gone back to artificial ...  Read the complete review

Originally to symbolise the good will gesture of a gift of a tree from Norway, the Christmas tree has become for many a symbol for Christmas. They were decorated with candles to eminate the moonlight filtering through the trees. Now the candles have gone, replaced by fairy-lights and baubles, and often the trees are made of acrylic, or ...  Read the complete review

I spent my childhood Christmases, without exception, in New Zealand. Originally we lived in the country, on a 'lifestyle block' - a very very small farm <g>. We had pine trees as windbreakers between the fields, and every Xmas we would all tromp out in the frost to watch Dad cut the top of one of them, which then became our Christmas ...  Read the complete review