Fake trees

[TheHouseofMirth]

We usually have a real one but they are so expensive and I've just had an email from Homebase with 8' trees half price here

Are they horrible though?

We bought a lovely 8ft fake tree last year after a few years with a real tree.

Much prefer the fake tree, it looks better and doesn't have the needle dropping stage like the real one, so safer for our 18 month DD and our two dogs!

It's GORGEOUS - bought from a garden centre, not Homebase...

I have only had one real one in ten plus years and it was a right ballache. Needles everywhere, trying to keep it upright and watered, soft branches not strong enough to hang baubles on. I was still finding needles in the living room over a year later. Give me fakery every time! You can't even see the tree with the amount of tat I put on it; it looks like a prickly relative of Liberace.

We're renting a tree this year. They deliver it, and then pick it up in January. It is then replanted until next christmas. When it hits a certain size it's left in the ground.

how much is it to rent a tree?

TheHouseofmirth that was one huge tree how the he'll dud you get it through your front door?

We always had a fake tree as children dh always had a real tree. Our first Christmas in our first house he convinced me to get a real tree and I fell in love with the experiance (picking your tree then trimming it when you get home because we'd underestimate how big it was) and the smell is just so christmassy.

This year we are thinking about getting a fake one moneys tight and our new living room is tiny plus I can't be arsed with the needles and last year dh left our dead Christmas tree in the garden until about march

I will miss the real tree even though dh had an almighty fight on his hands that first year to even have me consider not buying a fake one.

Noddyholder we live just off Durham Road!

Dylthan getting it in was easy, it was netted and we have our trees delivered as we have a tiny car. However, they had to cut about 2.5 feet off the top of it to get it in the stand...Come January DH had to attack in with an electric drill to get it into small enough pieces to get it out.

I must say we've never had problems with droopy branches and they've always kept their needles very wel.