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otee, real christmas tree or fake tree ?

MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
edited December 1969 in The Commons

or screen saver christmas tree? :)

38 days left until Christmas Eve!

brr shvrr holidays tree weather

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  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    Fake tree, or in my case trees, one on each window sill as we live in a double fronted stone cottage and our walls are 18" thick so we have nice wide window sills. The ones I have are fibre optic trees which change colour.

  • robkelkrobkelk Posts: 3,259
    edited December 1969

    Christmas Tree!
    http://www.ageofarmour.com/3d/free/Christmas.html

    Can't stash real-world presents under it, though...

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,249
    edited December 1969

    ...aluminum tree with rotating colour wheel spotlight. Total space age kitsch.

    Aluminum-Christmas-Tree-6.jpg
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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,613
    edited December 1969

    Chanukah Bush

  • LycanthropeXLycanthropeX Posts: 2,287
    edited December 1969

    no tree... i don't do christmas

    I prefer trees out in the woods where they belong.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,672
    edited November 2014

    No tree. I don't do Christmas either. No decorations, no cards, no presents, no carols, no shopping. I hide for 6 weeks until the madness is over.

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,613
    edited December 1969

    LeatherGryphon said:
    No tree. I don't do Christmas either. No decorations, no cards, no presents, no carrols. I hide for 6 weeks till the madness is over.

    Only 6 weeks?

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,781
    edited December 1969

    Love Christmas! i work in retail management so I have a headstart more then most. i have a fake16 ft Douglas fir i got from a mall sale on fixtures and luckily I have vaulted ceilings, LOL. It's a pain to decorate, but really nice to look at. Been threatening to leave it up year round, LOL.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,249
    edited December 1969

    ...looking around the various sites (eBay/Amazon) for stings of flutterby lights.

    Normally regular holiday lights should never go on an aluminum tree, but these are battery powered LEDs.

  • namffuaknamffuak Posts: 4,191
    edited December 1969

    Fake 6 foot pre-lit; add about 150 miniature ornaments,

    It's my main attempt to get into the spirit of the season despite the ads.

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,677
    edited November 2014

    We purchase a real tree which we recycle and the dump turns into wood chips for paths and gardens. We buy the tree the day after thanksgiving and leave it up through new years.

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  • Cris PalominoCris Palomino Posts: 11,682
    edited November 2014

    I like this idea of renting a living Christmas tree. They also hire vets.

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  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,066
    edited November 2014

    I wanna get one of those new robotic Christmas trees, they put themselves up, auto decorate themselves, have built in festive lighting, vaporize intruders and at the end of the season they put themselves away... All while smelling like a fresh alpine forest.
    They are probably not so cheap or actually available to the general public at the moment, but I think thats the direction I'd like to go this year.
    I hate lugging our ten thousand pounds of festive holiday decorations out of the attic every year and digging out the fake tree from its storage tomb... Being half German, I can understand the traditional importance to some people of having a live, but slowly dying real tree... The feeling of razor sharp needles protruding from the carpet is a heartwarming tradition, but the Italian half of me says "what the hell is wrong with you, thats too much trouble just get a nice looking artificial one... Maybe one of those new robotic ones with the plasma guns..."
    I did a real tree once... Just once... But I thought I'd be slick and get one with roots so I could plant it at the end of the season... That was the stupidest, messiest idea I ever had, even counting the pudding gun... That and the friggin' thing weighed like 250 lbs, and ended up dying anyway.
    A Robotree for me, please Santa.

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  • RCDescheneRCDeschene Posts: 2,801
    edited November 2014

    I'm mentally with LycanthropeX and LeatherGryphon, I prefer not to do anything for Christmas like presents or pageantry, either. Though, where I'm very New Age, I do practice the yearly pagan Sabbats with my dresser top alter.

    However, the rest of my family does, and we buy a tree every year, even though Mother distresses how they get more expensive every year. :lol:

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,759
    edited December 1969

    We have several trees in the garden, each of which can be used more than once before it gets too tall and needs a replacement. The downside is that if the bracken has grown up around them the lower branches can be rather bare.

  • SickleYieldSickleYield Posts: 7,644
    edited December 1969

    Always fake. We used the same fake tree for a decade until it just got so worn and ratty that we had to replace it, so that thing was part of mine and my sisters' Christmas memories. Ours is green, but I love that one Kyoto Kid has. A fake tree can't be too kitsch for me. :D

    Anyway, this year I have my own office and can put up a goth-black aluminum one. I understand they sell them in a readily portable size. I'm not sure I'll want to take it down. I may just keep redecorating it for increasingly less appropriate holidays. I kind of want to get my own 3D printer so I can cover it in Singers of Chzor ornaments (with festive Mother Beast topper).

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,066
    edited December 1969

    Too bad we can't place text after an image anymore like we could at the old site... but here are a few ideas I like...

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    Godzilla-Christmas-Tree.jpg
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  • DestinysGardenDestinysGarden Posts: 2,550
    edited December 1969

    That's what I'm talking about! I bet my family would just love it if I decorated our tree like a pink and gold dalek! Well, they probably wouldn't object to the dalek as much as having an obnoxiously pink tree.

  • SickleYieldSickleYield Posts: 7,644
    edited December 1969

    DestinysGarden said:
    That's what I'm talking about! I bet my family would just love it if I decorated our tree like a pink and gold dalek! Well, they probably wouldn't object to the dalek as much as having an obnoxiously pink tree.

    YEE IT"S ADORABLE

    I mean terrifying. Terrifying is what I meant there.

    (I've been reliably informed that Daleks are scary. I have seen all of Classic Who that was readily available. No, they're not.)

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,313
    edited November 2014

    We do the fake tree as well. I have always wanted a live tree but the wife will not allow it cause they get pine needles on the ground and scatter through the whole house

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,249
    edited November 2014

    lordvicore said:
    I wanna get one of those new robotic Christmas trees, they put themselves up, auto decorate themselves, have built in festive lighting, vaporize intruders and at the end of the season they put themselves away... All while smelling like a fresh alpine forest.
    They are probably not so cheap or actually available to the general public at the moment, but I think thats the direction I'd like to go this year.
    I hate lugging our ten thousand pounds of festive holiday decorations out of the attic every year and digging out the fake tree from its storage tomb... Being half German, I can understand the traditional importance to some people of having a live, but slowly dying real tree... The feeling of razor sharp needles protruding from the carpet is a heartwarming tradition, but the Italian half of me says "what the hell is wrong with you, thats too much trouble just get a nice looking artificial one... Maybe one of those new robotic ones with the plasma guns..."
    I did a real tree once... Just once... But I thought I'd be slick and get one with roots so I could plant it at the end of the season... That was the stupidest, messiest idea I ever had, even counting the pudding gun... That and the friggin' thing weighed like 250 lbs, and ended up dying anyway.
    A Robotree for me, please Santa.

    ...just make sure it's not one of these...

    Killer Christmas Tree

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,249
    edited November 2014

    lordvicore said:
    Too bad we can't place text after an image anymore like we could at the old site... but here are a few ideas I like...

    ...love the Cthuhlu Tree.
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  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited December 1969

    LeatherGryphon said:
    No tree. I don't do Christmas either. No decorations, no cards, no presents, no carols, no shopping. I hide for 6 weeks until the madness is over.
    ditto as we are not religious even though I consider myself a pagan which is more a way of life than anything religious. But to answer the Q, real as the impact on the environment would be less than manufacturing a fake one. Plus it can be recycled in to garden compost. Many are grown just for xmas so it isn't as though the native forest would be at harm.
  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,162
    edited December 1969

    We have a realistic plastic tree we have had for twenty years, so instead of twenty trees being used we only needed the one :-)

    Christmas is a pagan ritual adopted by the Christian church as the birth of Christ. It is the returning of the sun, the re-birth at the winter solstice, (see the connection sun/son) and the bringing in of the log and decorating it pre-dates Christmas trees which were turned into what they are by the Victorians and Saint Nicholas was turned into the commodity called Santa by Coca-Cola :-)

    Pagan, Wiccan or Christian it is still a great time for families and celebrations :-)

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited November 2014

    Fishtales said:
    We have a realistic plastic tree we have had for twenty years, so instead of twenty trees being used we only needed the one :-)

    Christmas is a pagan ritual adopted by the Christian church as the birth of Christ. It is the returning of the sun, the re-birth at the winter solstice, (see the connection sun/son) and the bringing in of the log and decorating it pre-dates Christmas trees which were turned into what they are by the Victorians and Saint Nicholas was turned into the commodity called Santa by Coca-Cola :-)

    Pagan, Wiccan or Christian it is still a great time for families and celebrations :-)

    I know and I would rather spend time with family on our terms than be dictated to by others. Just like Mothers and Father days etc etc My Parents hate the idea for those very reason and I have to agree with them. But I still stand by my opinion if you want a tree use a real one. :)
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  • jakibluejakiblue Posts: 7,281
    edited December 1969

    I LOVE Christmas. LOVE LOVE LOVE it. My favourite time of the year - even more than my birthday :D I love the mad shopping, the christmas carols, the craziness - only thing I don't love about Christmas is the damn heat. (I hate summer).

    My husband and his family, on the other hand, don't do Christmas LOL. He's totally against all the commercialism, whereas I love the commercialism. I'm an atheist so obviously Christmas has no religious meaning for me, but I do love the whole family thing at xmas.

    As for the tree, well, we don't have one. I don't go in for the decoration thing, plus since we are now kid-free, we don't do the tree and presents thing. We'll be spending Christmas Eve and day out at my parents place, where the rest of my siblings and my son are all convening, and my mother does the whole hog. Big fake tree, beautifully decorated, apartment decorated to the hilt, right down to the dinner table. She loves doing all the decorating and entertaining and cooking. We have the big dinner on Christmas Eve night (cos it's a big cooler than a big afternoon lunch on Xmas day) and it's a Secret Santa this year which will be fun. Christmas Day itself, we'll probably be out on the boat on the lake having a seafood lunch :D :D

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,249
    edited November 2014

    Szark said:
    Fishtales said:
    We have a realistic plastic tree we have had for twenty years, so instead of twenty trees being used we only needed the one :-)

    Christmas is a pagan ritual adopted by the Christian church as the birth of Christ. It is the returning of the sun, the re-birth at the winter solstice, (see the connection sun/son) and the bringing in of the log and decorating it pre-dates Christmas trees which were turned into what they are by the Victorians and Saint Nicholas was turned into the commodity called Santa by Coca-Cola :-)

    Pagan, Wiccan or Christian it is still a great time for families and celebrations :-)

    I know and I would rather spend time with family on our terms than be dictated to by others. Just like Mothers and Father days etc etc My Parents hate the idea for those very reason and I have to agree with them. But I still stand by my opinion if you want a tree use a real one. :)
    ...well today is:

    E-Card Day (hmmmm....)

    As well as:

    Homemade Bread Day (yum)

    ...and...

    World Peace Day (we're all family..........right?) ;-)

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  • alexhcowleyalexhcowley Posts: 2,392
    edited December 1969

    Real trees look better but they are a pain in the posterior after Christmas, when they start shedding pine needles all over the place.

    Cheers,

    Alex.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,249
    edited December 1969

    ...and can become a fire hazard they dry out unless you are using the newer LED lights.

    On a more traditional tree, I always preferred the big old fashioned ceramic bulbs as they had a "warmer" more pleasing glow to them than the "mini lights" that are now widely used. The only thing is they would get hot and thus accelerate the tree's drying out.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,672
    edited December 1969

    lordvicore said:
    I wanna get one of those new robotic Christmas trees, they put themselves up, auto decorate themselves, have built in festive lighting, vaporize intruders and at the end of the season they put themselves away... All while smelling like a fresh alpine forest.
    They are probably not so cheap or actually available to the general public at the moment, but I think thats the direction I'd like to go this year.
    I hate lugging our ten thousand pounds of festive holiday decorations out of the attic every year and digging out the fake tree from its storage tomb... Being half German, I can understand the traditional importance to some people of having a live, but slowly dying real tree... The feeling of razor sharp needles protruding from the carpet is a heartwarming tradition, but the Italian half of me says "what the hell is wrong with you, thats too much trouble just get a nice looking artificial one... Maybe one of those new robotic ones with the plasma guns..."
    I did a real tree once... Just once... But I thought I'd be slick and get one with roots so I could plant it at the end of the season... That was the stupidest, messiest idea I ever had, even counting the pudding gun... That and the friggin' thing weighed like 250 lbs, and ended up dying anyway.
    A Robotree for me, please Santa.

    For the wealthy with room, the ideal tree situation is a "Tree Closet". On the day after Thanksgiving the door just slides open and a fully decorated tree slides out into the room and turns itself on, fake presents, and incessant music are optional. January 2nd, the whole thing just slides back into the closet and sends out the robot vacuum to catch any stray decoration that may have fallen. A proper closet of this type would be designed like a "Lazy-Susan" with three other holiday themes, Thanksgiving, Halloween, Easter that appear at the appropriate times. So even when you're vacationing on your private island or in the Hamptons your homes wherever they are will all be self-celebrating the holiday and keeping the attendant robot vacuum busy.

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