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As someone who spent a couple collegiate summers wielding a machete to make the real trees look like the fake ones....

NEVER. NOT IN MY HOUSE AS LONG AS I DRAW BREATH.

*ahem*

I have a small, tinsel-and-wire tree that netgoth gave me; aishlynn is hell-bent on getting a silver (aluminum, I think) tree from her parents that was her childhood one. My folks had the same plastic tree for twenty years squirreled away in the attic.

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[ms-cantrell.livejournal.com]

we have an 8 foot fake tree from sears. it takes an hour to set up. the ligths are built in, and it doesn't shed.

the only thing missing is the christmas tree smell, and i get that by mutilating the various coniferous trees in the greenbelt behind our house, and making a few wreaths.

[razerwolfe.livejournal.com]

We have a 7' beauty that I aquired nigh 20 years ago. She's a fine tree and super easy to put up an down. Not pre-lighted, but that is fine since we can then light it any way we please.

Now, if I had an opportunity to pick up one of the retro silver-tinsel ones I'd snap it up in a sec just on kitsch factor alone.

[kungfugimp.livejournal.com]

Yea, I'm a bit wanting of the one K told me about...sounds retroliscious!

I'm a sucker for that fresh pine smell though. Part of that whole winter season feel you can't really get in S Florida.

So....I guess fresh pine scent cologne is right out for a present then. :P

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I have Pine Sol. Makes an excellent marinade.

[poisongirl.livejournal.com]

Agreed. I grew up in a fake tree house so I felt a weird need one year after I moved out to have a real one. That was the first and last time. Never again.
If K is dead set on one of those silvery ones, Target has wee ones for sale with their xmas crap this year. I have contemplated buying one of the black ones if I can spare the cash. Or is it the tree at her folks in particular?

[etcet.livejournal.com]

It's the sentimental value. And, personally, I think an aluminum tree would be pretty damn cool. It's just been difficult coordinating the abduction of said festive artifact from her folks' attic. :-)

[smaugchow.livejournal.com]

Long live the real tree!

I kinda have to say that since the family farm is a Christmas tree farm, but I'd say it anyway 'cuz fake trees are lame. Fake boobs - Fine. Fake elections - an American tradition. Fake X-mas trees - godless heathen scum!

[etcet.livejournal.com]

You ever work that farm, spanky? Come home after nine hours of machete work covered in sap, sweat, and insect bites, with the oh-so-stylish work boot and shin guard tan for minimum wage?

Viva la aftermarket rack.

[smaugchow.livejournal.com]

You betcha. Nasty work at times. And I had a family of Laotian refugees working their skinny ASSES off all around me (my grandfather made friends with this family and helped get them over to the US and get them jobs and all that.) Those guys made me look SO much more lazy than I realy was.

Still, I'm sure you put more sweat and tears into it so I'll not challenge your battle scars.

[chesch.livejournal.com]

this is my tree ...

[etcet.livejournal.com]

i c wut u did thar.