We have a real one that only just got through the front door

I live in AUstrlia so unless I want a scraggly ass fake one that would look sad decorating a Garden shed, mine is and has to be fake...its Summer here

chillichocaholic said:

We have an artificial one.

Both!

And they're both under 3 feet tall.

My family sells trees every year (my grandfather did, now one of my uncles does, chances are one of his children will take over, etc.) so I'm particular about trees. They must be real, or so fake as to not even be tree-like, like my pink and silver tinsel tree.

jess555ja said:

Do you open all your presents on xmas day? some people open one on xmas eve night then the rest on xmas day, if i was a kid I'd never get back to sleep!

jami0mckay said:

Well I had to tell him something...I was getting tired of the Coal

CarrieMpls said:

cool!

I have to pour water in its pot every morning which means at 6:15am I'm on the floor under the tree with a jug of water trying to pour it in without spilling any. Whilst the cat sits and looks at me like I've gone mental.
This morning the handle of the jug broke when I was pouring so I, the carpet, the cat, infact everything apart from the tree got soaked!

We have 2, both fake. We really wanted one to be real bur want to leave them up for so long that real isn't practical. I have a 4 ft white tree that is decorated in purple and silver and the main tree is 7ft green traditional with multicolored decorations, very pretty.

After New Years, Meggy is going to change the white tree to red, green and yellow lights and decorations for Rastafarian Christmas on Jan 7.

jami0mckay said:

In my family, we usually celebrate on Christmas Eve and open the gifts around midnight

shellyevon said:

fake tree
real trees are too expensive and too much of a pain in the ass to fit inside of a tree stand....the tree my family uses has been around for years and still looks great...my mom and dad bought it in '87 and it's still going strong since they gave it to me...it's practically a family heirloom...

roodboi said:

you're right there! and even then I had to put copies of Empire Magazine under 2 of the stands so it wouldn't tip over!

jami0mckay said:

my wife and I thought it would be nice to have a real tree our first year in our house....we bought the damned thing, got it home and I trimmed on it for a couple of hours trying to make it work....we finally got it in, lights on and decorated...two days later it fell over...needless to say, I broke out the ol' trusty fake tree...

roodboi said:

and I hadn't even read the Empire magazine thats now propping it up

jami0mckay said:

Oh gosh, that's the only thing Empire is good for these days, isn't it? I used to love that magazine but now they seem obsessed with the business and money side of things and seem to have forgotten the articles about the actual movies and movie-making. Even the reviews just talk about whether or not the movie was a good "career choice" for the people involved.

I have a fake one with built in lights!

When I was young...we would do real ones.

retina said:

and yet I still buy it every month!! I get Total Film too which is a little better but the mags I do like dissapear after a few issues!

jami0mckay said:

Yeah exactly. I always sneak a peek in Empire at the news stand, but the only magazine I subscribe to these days is Newsweek. I'd love to have an entertainment magazine too but none of them seem to fit my interest.

retina said:

yeah infact I pick up more about new music/films etc here these days!

chillichocaholic said:

i wish it was summer here too

lucky U!!!!

Merry Sunny Christmas Chilli

MoniGram said:

us too, but some of the lights dont work

but we have an extra strand

Real...decorating this weekend...with eggnog

I don't have a indoor christmas tree, but I have two column-like ever-green trees which are live and potted on either side of my front door with lights in them. Basically to appease the neighbors and add to the ambiance of the area.
Hopefully they will survive the winter so they can be planted in the spring.

We have a fake one in storage, but I'm trying to convince the hubby to get a real one this year.

horatio said:

In my little apartment I can only fit a fake.... real trees tend to be too wide, my kids love to decorate with me... eggnog, homemade sugarcookies, and a gingerbread house will also be made(geesh, I'm sounding like Martha Stewart)


In my old apartment we always had a real one, I miss that smell. I think I'll have a wreath made so that we can have that smell in the house.
[Edited 12/4/07 7:13am]

jami0mckay said:

is that good or bad thing?

horatio said:

good!

jami0mckay said: