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I just love a real tree at Christmas....it just seems traditional here, and enjoy the fresh smell of the tree, as well as willing to deal with the clean-up after Christmas. The nice lady down the road sells Balsam fir and Blue Spruce for $15 to $20 per tree.
Anyone else on the real tree wagon?
Even if you are not.. Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Years!
 
Yep, wifey says gotta be real!

Had a difficult time finding one this year.



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Here in Nevada, the fish & Game collects them and joins them together and sinks them in the lakes for fish habitat.

They have more than just one pleasant use..............

but yes, a live tree is the only way to go, if you can.

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Oh, that a great looking tree and I love the corner placement with a window on each side !!! Well done.
 
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One of the things I use to like was wandering through the forest looking
for the perfect tree to cut. Usually just topped the tree and it would have
a new top in a few years.
Wife and girls finally overruled me and got an eight foot fake tree. I will
admit to it being a pain to clean up and maybe harder to decorate but
they are just not the same. I nothing else the fresh odor was enjoyable.
I also most of the time cut a tree that was to big to get through the front
door and would have to cut some off.
But now the tree goes up the Fri/Sat. after Thanksgiving and I have to live with it until 01 Jan, if lucky.
Ah the good old days when things were real.
 
We used to get a fresh tree before the kids got married.
Back in the day, our favorite tradition was in our little Swiss village, the forest keepers harvested trees from the forest and brought them to our street corner on Christmas eve morning. We decorated the tree with real candles that we lit after supper and sang carols.

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I have a 6ft. Nordman Fir. Fresh cut about 4 miles from my house. Until I'm too old and crippled up I'll get a real tree. No pics yet as my cam is busted. Friends are coming over, so they can e-mil me pics to post later.
 
My aunt and uncle here in town helped me move into my house in 2005. While I was at work, they got a potted Christmas tree for me for my first Christmas in my new house. I tried to plant it but it died.

The next year I got a potted Norway spruce tree as a Christmas tree. I planted it in the middle of the back yard and now it's 20+ feet tall.
 
Wife and I just got a tree permit from the Dept. of Forestry to go cut a tree. Of course it snowed yesterday, probably tonight also, so it is going to be a pain going into the forest to look for a tree, trudge thru the snow, cut and drag the tree to the truck, haul it home, set it up, then have a Scotch libation while the wife decorates the tree. But in the spirit of Christmas, well worth the effort.
 
Golddollar said:
My aunt and uncle here in town helped me move into my house in 2005. While I was at work, they got a potted Christmas tree for me for my first Christmas in my new house. I tried to plant it but it died.

The next year I got a potted Norway spruce tree as a Christmas tree. I planted it in the middle of the back yard and now it's 20+ feet tall.
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This is the exact story of my parents in the early 80s in their new apartment. We bought a live tree and took it up to their apartment in a shopping cart from the garage. Man was that heavy. We enjoyed it but it got too dry we planted it in my brothers yard but it died. Next year we did the same thing and we planted it in my brothers yard and now it’s almost 30 years old and it’s beautiful


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Yep, wifey says gotta be real!

Had a difficult time finding one this year.



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That's beautiful
My dad had a "blinker" that you plugged the lights into It would make all the lights blink on/off together. Seems weird to me. When they moved to the apartment I bought him a string with program options to chase, fade, fade by each color, twinkle, etc. He loved it.
 
This is why we can't have a real Christmas tree. It would be defoliated in a week and I dislike sweeping up needles.



They treat the ornaments like speed bags, knock them off and then play hackeysack.

I have to admit that they are entertaining. I grab a beverage and pull the recliner up to the tree and settle in.

It's like watching a time lapse ant farm.
 
I am all for real trees, too, the look and scent are wonderful childhood memories. Alas, like Rusty, there are creatures in my house-3 large dogs- that would have it on the floor in no time. So now, at the local nursery I purchase a real wreath, hang it on the entry door and enjoy the scent coming and going. :)
 
Back when I was growing up we always had a real tree, because my dad owned two parcels of land outside Punxsutawney, PA that were planted in various species of Christmas trees. With the size some of them have grown to now we could supply the White House with a Christmas tree for the next 100 years.
 
We traditionally had live trees, when we moved to the country our first tree there was a real one. After Christmas I figured we start a new tradition and would burn it out in the yard. When I lit it it took off like it had been soaked in gasoline. I just imagined it happening in the house, there would be no way to put that out!
Sadly we switched over to "fake" trees, not as nice a smell and look but I believe safer!
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Ours is as phony as a $3 bill, but it looks real . . . ish.

Anybody remember those hideous "space age" silver aluminum trees with the little color wheel that reflected four different colors onto the "tree" as the wheel revolved? Yeah, my grandmother had one of those for a few years when I was a kid.
 
Always had a real tree when I was a kid. Dad just had to buy a can of that snow spray and did he get artistic. I still find that stuff on old ornaments and toy train cars.
When I moved to the country 32 years ago, I planted several thousand pine trees of various types knowing that only about a third would make it. I did that with an eye to maybe having a Christmas Tree Farm to sell tree's when I retired. Never did. Gave a few away and now the smallest now is about 12 feet, most are giants.
The wife didn't like the clean up of a real tree, so I got rid of the wife. lol No, just kidding.
My wife bought a 10 foot fake tree about 10 years ago, that is bulky and comes in three pieces that I have to lug out of the basement every year. I have to admit it looks very real, but not as good.
Well this year the wife will be out of town so no fake tree. As a matter of fact, no tree at all this year. I'm getting a break.
Don't even have to cook since I'll be here by myself, maybe my son will come into town, so I just ordered a nice Prime Rib dinner from a local deli. The only time I'm leaving the house is to go to Church.
A Merry Christmas to all.
 
My long time companion has a penchant for live trees. Her pick this time is a Douglas fir. The root ball is in the bucket. After the season it will be planted in the yard. A bit smaller than in the past, the guy at nursery still uses a bucket loader to get into the truck.

These days it gets in the house by cajoling nephews and youthful acquaintances to manhandle the quarter ton root ball. Her grandchildren will do the decorating while I play the old geezer card and grump.
 

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In the old days we'd get a permit and go out and cut a tree in the woods.
A friend worked for a local railroad and they gave out permits on the
land they owned. Permits and the railroad have been gone for years
now.

The tree gathering operation was part of my brother's birthday party and he was born on Dec. 17. It would sit in the basement "defrosting" for a couple of days. Then we'd install it in the living room and hang ornaments and lights all over it. Months later I would still be picking up needles with my stocking feet. They would get into the carpet my folks
had and emerge later to stick me.

We had natural trees when we had kids. It was fun decorating them at that time.

Now my wife decorates her collection of house plants, a small white
artificial tree, and sometimes one Scandinavian one made from dowels. Don't know her whole tree plan for this year yet. More will be
revealed tomorrow.
 
After Christmas people put their trees on the street and the town comes around and picks them up, I would pick up a bunch of them and drag them into the woods and make brush piles for the rabbits.

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