Does anyone buy a real Christmas tree anymore?

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Does anyone buy a real Christmas tree anymore?

Yes, real trees are so much nicer than naff fake ones.

My fake tree is 40 years old and still going strong. I’m hoping it will on balance be better for the environment than the 100 or real trees it replaced by the end of its life. Maybe not?!

@AutumnCrow jeepers! I was coming to post about how lovely the added bonus of the occasional out of season ladybird is but that’s next level (the ladybird would of course eat your spiders).

actually - related question- how do you de bug and de mud foliage that you cut? There has to be a technique to it or are all those House & Garden set pieces actually crawling with insects and filth?

Yes

Absolutely! Would never contemplate having anything other than a real tree.

Yes ,we buy one every year .I do not like fake trees.

Never, It's against my pagan religion to bring a beautiful tree inside and watch it die. I don't have a tree fake or real.

I have noticed more people turning to artificial trees. Including some families I thought would never have a fake tree.

On an environmental note, are real Christmas trees better to grow and then dispose of than pumpkins? In the situation that people are disposing each and not eating/replanting.

My advice to avoid spiders’ nests is to pay careful attention to what’s inside the branches.

We didn’t, and once the screaming had stopped and muggins had gently swept hundreds of tiny silk-spinning spiders from the sitting room ceiling out into the road while the children comforted each other sobbing in the kitchen, it seemed obvious.

I don’t mind the odd bug at all. In fact I rather like them, and spiders - they’re fascinating. But I can do without the hysteria tbh.

Yes ... but if I'm honest I find it a all bit of a faff now ... I don't 'get' the idea of a rosy cheeked family skipping off to happily choose the tree ... in reality DH goes on his own to wrestle one into the car from the garden centre; then there's the annual ritual of putting it into the stand and making sure its upright. No one apart from me is bothered about putting the decorations on ... my DS would be interested for about five minutes when he was much younger. I sound a bit bah humbug but it's all seems quite an effort ... I sometimes feel I've experienced enough Christmases . We are going away this Christmas so I did suggest that perhaps we didn't need one but DH says he loves it.

Yep always have a real tree but we’re the last in the family to do that. my parents & sisters now have artificial ones

Yes I do

of course they do, that’s why so many garden centres still sell them. They wouldn’t bother if no one bought them, would they?
we have a real one. Not a fan of artificial ones.

We bought a living tree in a pot in 2006 and we still have it. It comes inside for December every year. No cost to the environment. I don't know everyone (who has any outside space at all) doesn't do it.

I don't know why, that should say

Fake trees my entire life bar once or twice when I was little. I’ve never had a real tree as an adult. My mum hated the needles in the carpet when I was a child, and now my husband is a hay fever sufferer so it doesn’t seem sensible to get a real one. We have one 6ft tree that’s now 9 years old, and a 4ft one that’s 4/5 years old. The older one was a cheaper one and it’s not as visually pleasing as the newer one but it’s still got life in it so we’ll keep using it.

Me! I love a real tree.

And having moved on from an emotionally abusive relationship where my EXDP used to moan and moan and moan about real trees, now that I've bought my own home I'm definitely buying one this year!

I've never had a real one, even as a child.

Yes. Then we season and burn the wood.

Of course.
Visit places that do and you would see.

Yes. There’s a scheme of renting trees (potted,living) that launched recently too nearby.

Yes we did pre DC and do now again as no one is desperate for the tree to be up on 1 December.

Its still a family afternoon out to pick the tree and a new decoration each.
Then home for Christmas tunes, mulled wine and decorating the tree

We don't as we have toddlers, but as soon as they're old enough to not eat the needles, we will be getting a real one again :)

Yes much prefer real, the last couple of years we have got them from B&M, £25 for a 6ft and lasted brilliantly.

OP do you have a real tree? What do you think about real trees?
Why did you start the thread?