Does anyone buy a real Christmas tree anymore?

[Doughnuts68]

Does anyone buy a real Christmas tree anymore?

Yes real tree here. I put it up mid December much to my DC's annoyance as they see others putting up their trees in November and feel they are missing out. A tough lesson in delayed gratification.

Yes - I'd love to get a really good fake one but my DS absolutely insists on a real one every year. He's 15 now and you'd think the world had ended when I suggested a fake one last Christmas. I've found a fab guy who delivers them though, so at least we don't have to try and get it in the car!

You see, I wonder if my DCs will rebel and get a fake tree which they will put up in November when they leave home. They hate having to wait for the real tree, poor little deprived souls.😆

To clarify - the OP asked a question to which I was responding . To me they seem pointless. I can’t speak for the millions of people who clearly don’t share my opinion. It’s a personal preference…you can have whatever you want in your home, it really doesn’t matter to me.

Yes. We finally had one again last year (after some years of living in small flats and using a faux tree most years excerpt for one small one in a pot), and it was so much nicer. The smell, the feel of it, the loveliness! I’m Danish and we always had real trees for Christmas; I’d never seen a faux tree in someone’s home until I moved to the U.K.

We go to a local country shop/hardware/etc that sells them. We get ours in the 2nd week of December.

Me, every year since I left XH.
He would never 'let' me you see as he hated real trees (he hated everything about Christmas actually or maybe he just hated everything I loved)
So as a big fuck you I ordered the biggest tree I could afford for the first Christmas without him.

Now I'm in my own flat and don't have the storage space for an artificial tree so I still get a real one.

Yep, a real tree for us too. We both love the smell, the choosing and the fact they're all different/slightly wonky! A few years back we did buy quite an expensive artificial tree but after a while realised it just wasn't as good as the real thing so flogged it on ebay.

We do have a small vintage (1950/60s) faux tree decorated with my parents' vintage baubles that we usually put up elsewhere in the house plus a living tree we have by the front door.

Yea. I love the small and the hunt for the tree.

Always get a real one. The only people I know who have fake ones have the ones that are obviously fake like black or white ones

Both - fake tree inside which we've had for 10+ years & a real potted one I bought last year from Sainsbury's for outside the house.