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Fake or Real? And if you celebrate Christmas, when do you put up your tree?

PinkNoise123PinkNoise123 member
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Growing up in Oregon we went to the Christmas tree farm every year the day after Thanksgiving to cut down our tree, and then we spent the rest of the day listening to Christmas music and decorating the house. Now that I live in Oklahoma, going to the vacant lot or big box store to get a tree just isn't the same... So I still try to keep the tradition of decorating the day after Thanksgiving, but the tree is now fake.
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Re: Fake or Real? And if you celebrate Christmas, when do you put up your tree?

  • PeskyPesky member
    We do fake -- we can put it up earlier and it's not quite the fire hazard it would otherwise be here.  It's really dry here so trees can become fire wood ready pretty quick.


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  • SunidazeSunidaze member

    If we actually get one up, it will be real.  Family tradition for DH.

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  • StrunellaStrunella member

    Real.  I love the whole tradition of picking out the tree, bringing it home, and the wonderful Chritsmas tree smell.  We usually get it about 2 weeks before Christmas.    

     
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  • ALF222ALF222 member
    Real. I love the smell! We usually put it up the first weekend in December.
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  • mwdmwd member

    Real, as much I would like to do a fake tree every other year, when we spend xmas at my parents house in MN. 

    If you have a fake tree, and buy the mistletoe scented candles, you can almost make yourself believe it's real. 

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  • superauntsuperaunt member
    fake- day after xmas, down the day after. i leave the rest of the decor up till the first weekend in Jan but i take the tree down b/c Sabrina's bday is 4 days later.
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  • BrideBuddiesBrideBuddies member
    Fake.   I agree with my neighbor to the north, Pesky.  Too darn dry here to keep a real tree from becoming kindling.
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  • SugarChick10SugarChick10

    We've always gotten a real tree but this year we're going artificial. Crazy-SugarChick worries about her increasingly mobile LO eating pine needles off of the floor. Rational-SugarChick can't find any free space that isn't near a heating vent to put a real tree, and I worry about the tree drying out. I thought I had our real tree far enough away from a heating vent last year, but nope--dried out pretty quick, considering we bought it the week before Christmas (& decorated Christmas Eve). 

    When we had a real tree: we would buy it 2 weeks before Christmas. We'd let it "settle" for a day, then decorate it the day after we got it home. 

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  • Piranha54Piranha54
    we live in a condo so the decision is made for us - fake.  We'll put it up next week and take down new years day ish.  If the condo ever sells and we have our own place, we'll probably get a real one.
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  • Punter2009Punter2009

    Im australian and most everyone i know puts up fake trees as we just dont have many of those real trees here, and it will be summer so the real thing will dry out pretty fast, and also I hate the mess they leave lol

    i put the tree up the first weekend of December and take it down before new year.

    I love it :)

    Ive never smelt mistletoe.

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  • bklynbrideceshbklynbridecesh member

    Real.....  The day after Thanksgiving.

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  • BabyIvaniBabyIvani

    Fake (as we live in Florida)

    and it went up Nov 14th. about a week earlier than usual but we were getting really warm temperatures and wanted to spark the Christmas cheer early. Now the house lights go up this weekend :)

     Either way if your an early bird like me or the ones who wait til December it works if you like it that way :)

    Merry Christmas!

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  • newbee36newbee36 member
    Fake. We put it up before Thanksgiving and will probably put it down after January 14. We usually don't do trees, but now having a kid around, we figured we should start getting used to it.
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  • Haribo1Haribo1
    This year, fake.  DH and I have always had real trees, but with our new LO, I want to get the tree and decorations up early.  I don' t know if I would be able to maintain a real tree right now.
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  • vanverthvanverth
    We do fake because I can kill a houseplant so a real tree would cause a housefire in about 2 days. 
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  • UpNorthGalUpNorthGal
    Fake. We usually put it up the Saturday after Thanksgiving, but this year we put it up the day after Turkey Day. We usually leave it up and lit until the Epiphany on January 6.
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