To prefer to fake it every time...

[Wonderous]

Christmas trees of course I honestly don't get the need for a real tree. Yes they smell nice but why cut down a living thing that's taken years to grow just for decoration because I never have fresh flowers lol

Real trees seem all spindly and a bit weird, not like my lovely bushy fake tree complete with pine cones and berries. And even get me started on the hassle of getting rid of a real tree in January.

So over to you - are you a faker and proud or AIBU?

We only get a real tree if they are being sold off at a ridiculously low price on the 23rd/24th. A 6ft tree for £2 from asda last year. Poor tree.
We wrapped it in tinsel and outside fairy lights and it lit up our patio.

Can't be done with needles indoors though.

I'd love a tree, real or fake. But we live in a shoebox of a flat with a 1yo. Who'd love a tree to pull over.

I love my fake tree. Can't wait to get it out of the garage for another year.

We drive each year to the neighbouring village where there is a Christmas tree farm. On a good year there is snow on the ground. It's not quite so much fun in the rain. We wander around, selecting our favourite from those on offer and when we have chosen, one of the children helps the man as he cuts down the tree. We bring it home, set it up in the living room where there is wood-effect linoleum so it's easy to sweep away the needles and it doesn't matter if there is overflow when we water it. Once it has dried out with the heat from the wood-stove, the children decorate it. It smells wonderful. I love it.

But when we lived in the UK, we had a fake one which we used every year, and I loved that too. I just love Christmas really!

Christmas chez Turnip is an extravaganza of over-the-top, indulgent ostentatiousness. No expense spared.

We did the fake thing last year when we celebrated Christmas early since we were going to be gone for the holiday. We bought a medium tree, not a small or large one.

We love it!! I know this is awful to say...but it looks like we have so many presents when we have a medium tree! We always got a huge live one and everything got lost under there.

Hope no one wants a real tree this year, as ds is getting older and the pile of presents is smaller (but more expensive)!

I was always evangelical about getting a real tree as that's what I had as a child, but unfortunately my first house 12 years ago was so small that the only spot for a tree was next to the radiator so I bought a fake one from b&q (£100 at the time).

We've had it every year since and I'm very attached to it. When I put it up I get nostalgic, it's as sentimental as all our other decorations, and it's always admired as it's still so bushy and realistic looking. I love my big fat plastic fake tree!

Real tree every year, sometimes one in a pot which we return or grow on. Sometimes we chip it and chuck it on the allotment. Sometimes we let the council tree van come and take it. Both me and DH are used to real trees throughout our childhoods and I've never met a fake one I've truly loved. Love going to choose one from the farm, getting it home, ooohing and aahing over it and making it look fab.

Also, yes, the smell is beautiful, evocative and really makes Christmas for me. Really don't mind about sweeping up pine needles - it only takes a few minutes.

Real! The town that we live in is surrounded by forest and the Forestry Commission sells real Christmas trees on there, so why not if its right on our doorstep? Also the Husband and I have made it a tradition of bringing the kids up with us each year to pick out the perfect tree as they also have Christmas music playing in the background, lights up, Santa's Grotto with real reindeer, and they sell hot chocolate. Then we decorate it together once we get it home. Overall, a perfect Sunday family activity that gets us all in the mood :)

We buy real. We have a local woodchipper man who comes round and disposes of your Christmas trees for free in January by chipping them all up and taking them away for use as compost, so I feel no guilt. It's being repatriated into nature!

Artificial ones are fuller, but I quite like the look of a slightly bare tree, delicate ornaments hanging from single branches. Looks nice.

Each to their own but I love a real tree.

Going out as a family to choose it, bringing it in and setting it up all together. It's the scent of Christmas to me and, to my mind, looks loads more luxuriant and fluffy than an artificial one.

We get nordman trees and never have a problem with dropping needles, usually only really need to do a brush up after putting decorations on or getting presents out in Christmas Day. And if you pay a fiver when you buy them the local garden centre collects them from your drive on a set day after Christmas.

I love Christmas decorations but I'd swap all of my decorations for a real Christmas tree if I could only have one of them.

That said I couldn't care less what anyone else does. Leaves a greater choice of fresh Christmas trees for me to choose from

I've a question about potted real trees - when you fetch it indoors each year, does it bring hitchhikers? Not talking Griswold chipmunk, but insects or spiders or whatnot?

Dunno...never thought about it. Our house is surrounded by trees so we have spiders and all sorts anyway.