When did you buy your 1st fake Christmas tree?

Sounds like you got a great deal!
I got my first fake tree back in 1987.
Nothing like a real fake tree in my house. At least no needles to clean up afterwards.

 

I grew up with an aluminum tree and colored light wheel that changed its colors every few seconds. It was pretty, but I promised myself I'd only have 'real' trees when I grew up.

There's just something about the smell of a fresh Christmas tree that can't be beat! Sure, there are fallen needles to clean up afterward, but that's really not a big deal. The enjoyment the tree brings is worth it. The look, the feel, the scent--no fake tree can truly replicate that.

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I can just remember our family bought a silver tinsel Christmas tree sometime around 1967, that we kept for about 10 years. And the lights we had looked like icicles in different colours. I can't ever recall the house having a real tree. And FWIW I'm now 56, and myself I've never bought a Christmas tree in my life, and not likely to.

 

Those must've been popular in the '60s! That's when we got ours, too.

Aw, shoot, there you go reminding me you're younger than me...

But they're so pretty and smell so good!

I know they're not everyone's thing, though.

 

I buy real trees thank you very much. In the LA times there is an article about how real tree this year is not in abundance compared to previous ones this years. This year depending on where you go, it might be harder to find the perfect tree. So in order to help these farmers, I elected to buy a real one this year.

 

Let me think, we had our first fake tree like in the eighties, mostly only because of visiting my grandmother it was down there, and we all the time would travel down there up until a few years or so ago. We had our first Illinois x-mas in here, about the same time my sister got engaged in 2012. It would be their fourth or fifth time up here as well. We have a huge box that we have it in, and still have a huge ten section ordimate box from around that time, in the eighties too.

 

What, pray tell, is that?

(Spell-check, Milo, spell-check! )

 

Never! I still hunt mine down in the wild, like a real man!! Douglas and his firs fear the time of the annual purge.

 

Is that anything like the reaping in "The Hunger Games?"

 

I've never bought one. My mom did, probably 25+ years ago. It was pretty good especially by the "artificial" standards of the time. I thought about keeping it after she passed but decided against it.

My wife has always done the real tree every year, and I do like that. It's a ton more work, but the pine smell in the house really helps set the mood. That there is a recycling/mulching program where we live makes it easier on my conscience.

This year we picked up (free) a thin-type pre-lit tree from a fellow church member who was getting rid of it. Since it's pre-lit we tossed it up in the front room near a window so it's visible from the front of the house. Our real tree (both figuratively and literally!) is in our sun room, which is in the back of the house off the family room, so it's not visible from the front. It's nice to see the other one from the street.

 

Always have, i can't stand the smell of Pine.