Real or fake?

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Christmas trees

Real

Real

Real (even although I can't have one myself)

Real. Unless you live in a top floor flat with no lift and have to drag it down dropping needles then spend an hour hoovering the communal areas. Then I’d say go fake and don’t repeat my mistake!

Fake! My friend got a real one last year and coming down on christmas eve all the needles were on the floor and it was absolutely deaded. When I saw it was

Real. Get a low drop one and don't let it dry out

Fake. I did a real tree for years and it's a ballache. Dropping needles, getting rid of it etc. Now I've a balsam hill ore lit one and wouldn't go back to real.

Fake. Ours is 10" tall and just perfect. Anything real would take up half the room and the cats would bring it down anyway.

People used to be really snobby about having a real tree saying that fake was tacky. I don't think people think like that any more. Probably due to the quality improving and the environmental issues of annually cutting and transporting trees.

Agree, it used to be a thing, having a real one was seen as a status symbol, now it's seen as environmentally damaging and a pita as most folks buy one without roots, use it for a couple of weeks then bin it. Times change. Plastic isn't better but at least you keep it for years and years.and re use, making it more eco friendly. There is no perfect solution out thr two, but it does mean real ones now have less cache attached now.

Real here. We rent a big potted one from our garden centre every year which means no trees are cut down and it holds its needles better as it doesn’t dry out so fast. Also super stable with young kids.