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Christmas Trees - Real Or Artificial?

Mendonca In Asdas
Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,652
edited December 2011 in Not Sports Related
With this week meant to be one of the busiest for buying one , just wondering what Trees lifers like?
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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,228
    Real.  Will be buying ours at the weekend.  If only we had a reliable, inexpensive supplier close to us in Bickley : - )
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    Real. From Woodside Garden Centre, Shooters Hill.
  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407
    Artificial for me. Lady RASE7 put ours up last night.
  • Strasburger
    Strasburger Posts: 957
    Last 2 years it has be Artificial for us.  However as British Gas very kindly binned that for us when they filled the loft with instillation (this is all according to the other half, and I am not so sure) We will be getting a real one this year.  (storms off in hump as he now has to pay out at least £30 per year from now on on something that will be binned in January) 
  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,652
    Real. From Woodside Garden Centre, Shooters Hill.
    I think they changed their name 20 years ago Chirpy :-0
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,893
    Same as my preference for tits-artificial.
  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,410
    Got mine yesterday  - £30 from the Xmas Tree farm on Bromley Common.
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,284
    I will be taking my saw out to the New Forest one night this week. Missus on lookout duty as normal. Will check first for squirrels this year as don't need another National Lampoon moment...
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    Real. From Woodside Garden Centre, Shooters Hill.
    I think they changed their name 20 years ago Chirpy :-0
    Really? I saw a bloke from there in the Midland Bank the other day and then bumped into him again in Bejams!
  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,652
    Parallel universe?
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  • dabos
    dabos Posts: 2,715
    edited December 2011
    Still got our real one from last year.
  • JaShea99
    JaShea99 Posts: 5,458
    Artificial. Real ones make far too much mess.
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    keeping it real
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,857
    Atrificial - baby and cat doesnt go well with loads of pine needles.
  • Dizzle
    Dizzle Posts: 5,190
    Xmas eve outside Homebase they usually leave the unsold ones out for free to take
  • johnny73
    johnny73 Posts: 4,567
    I prefer to keep it real but the wife prefers the plastic ones!
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    <snigger>
  • Florida_Addick
    Florida_Addick Posts: 218
    here is a pic of my yankie girlfriend with our tree from last year, which is real and which is plastic? or maybe both are real.....heres a clue....one is real.
  • adamtheaddick
    adamtheaddick Posts: 8,664
    Real, thompsons shooters hill cant beat the smell of a real tree, good prices at thompsons hardly droped any needles last year littlen cant wait!
  • adamtheaddick
    adamtheaddick Posts: 8,664
    Florida.. Git. ;-)
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  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,652
    edited December 2011
    Florida.. Git. ;-)
    I think he means Florida in Essex ;-0
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,738

    Artificial, I'm afraid.

    Love the smell of the real thing but since our needles had all dropped by Xmas Eve one year, we've taken the alternative  route.

  • Oakster
    Oakster Posts: 6,812
    We (legally) removed ours from the forest on Saturday, a £3 permit gets you up to 3 trees.....
  • Can-addick
    Can-addick Posts: 691

    @Oakster...just one more benefit of living in paradise!

    Real, by the way. Non-negotiable in our house, but fortunately we agree!

  • delroofer
    delroofer Posts: 857

    I told Mrs Roofer I was going out to pick up a real Christmas tree on Saturday when she reminded me we bought an artificial one last year!

    How could I forget when it cost an arm-and-a-leg and included lights, "snow" and decorations.

     

    DOH!

  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,229
    Is Florida addick on wind up?  V odd.


  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,228
    Is Florida addick on wind up?  V odd.


    Reminded me a bit of an ex-poster.  You know who I mean B.

    But most likely just madly in love so good luck to them.


  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587

    I just cannot understand the reasons for artificial. I f you are going to have a tree, have a real one. We did when I and my siblings were babies in the 60's.

    I have gone through it myself with two babies and also a dog. Never had a problem.

    Get a real tree for goodness sake or just don't bother.

  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,652
    edited December 2011

    I just cannot understand the reasons for artificial. I f you are going to have a tree, have a real one. We did when I and my siblings were babies in the 60's.

    I have gone through it myself with two babies and also a dog. Never had a problem.

    Get a real tree for goodness sake or just don't bother.

    I guess not having a real one is a good idea if you are hard up , or tight! as is not having one, i never had a real tree until i met my wife , my parents had a crappy old tree they'd bring out year after year ( i think they'd had it for 35 years!!) so i bought them a new artificial one , now they don't bother with it , put a fibre optic one up instead.
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    Hard up? You seen the price of artificial ones?

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