Poll: Christmas tree

[Ron Wenrich]

I'm talking about your main tree in your home.  Poll expires some time after Christmas. 

[breederman]

We will have three real ones this year, the out side one is up and running already, and I expect the others will go up when the twins get home from college in a few days. Lord knows how many small trees are scattered around the house! over twenty I am sure.  Wooden ones, glass ones, fake pine ones, some made out of who knows what.   Even got a fake one in the bathroom

[bedway]

Artificial,,but looks real!!!,,,,,,bedway

[metalspinner]

We finally bought an artificial tree this year.  I was reluctant to do so, but the hassle of a real one was starting to get to me.  Now my wife is burning a pine scented candle to give us the scent of a fresh cut tree.

[Mike_Barcaskey]

not only is it real, but we grow 'em ourselves

[Jeff]

Ours has a real cedar trunk but fake branches and little (real wood) toys for ornaments. Can't take the chance with Stacy's alergies and past breathing problems to have a real tree.

This is it. We put it up today.

[Ed_K]

 We need a (other) category  . Ours is real but its a branch,one yr it was a dogwood.This yr maple  .

[Daren]

No tree this year, but we usually go real tree. The best one was the first year we lived in an old victorian with a 14' high entry foyer. We had a big glass door and windows all around the foyer so the wife wanted as big a tree as we could get so people could see it driving up. I will admit it was very pretty with the 100's of silver/gold bows she made and white lights and all... but it was like a logging job. In the middle of the tree farm a 14' tree looked kinda big, but trying to get that thing in the front door was a real trip. It didn't look so big outside, inside it was huge. We scaled back abit the next year 

[ohsoloco]

I don't have a Christmas tree in my house, but if I did it would be a real one.  Maybe now that the dog is getting older I could do it, but the past two years she looked at my parents' tree like her personal dog toy holder 

[pigman]

Ron, you need another catagory. My wife has already put up two artificial trees and we will put up a real tree when I get a round tuit.  Our real tree will be an ERC that we will cut from our farm, po folks you know. I was 30 before I found out what we called Christmas trees were actually ERC. A few years ago, because of my procrastinating, my wife and teenage chrilden got the Christmas tree.   It was a  nice 12ft blue spruce. When I asked the wife why they bought a tree she just laughed. It was not until the next day that I discovered that our nice blue spruce in the back yard had disappeared.   I guess I had better get a tree tomorrow, we only have one blue spruce left.


Bob

[Paul_H]

We buy a tree from either the Lions Club or the Cubs/Scouts.The trees are always Douglas Fir cut from beneath the powerline right of way.I like the smell of the crushed needles.

[Tom]

We got some spruce boughs from a neighbors tree.  I'm going to crush them and put some in rubbing alcohol.  I figure the evaporation of the alcohol will make the house smell like spruce for several days.   Do you reckon it will work?

[Paul_H]

It might smell like a bunkhouse 

[farmerdoug]

Tom,

That just may work but I would be careful of open flames also.

Of course you may also wake up on a piece of cardboard with a pin stuck in you like the butterflies we use to collect and gas for school.  So maybe that will not be a good idea.

Farmerdoug

[Peakebrook]

Concolor fir, the needles hold forever.  Good market for live trees as well.

[Bro. Noble]

Now if you had a wooley dog,  you could rub some of that mixture into it's coat and it would not only deoderize  the dog,  but would spread the holiday aroma throughout your house.  You're family will love you  I'm not sure rubbing alcohol would be good for the dog though-----might should use food grade alcohol

We always cut our own tree,  usually a cedar and also made at least one gumdrop tree for the house and often two or three to give away.  I still like to make gumdrop trees and look forward to being able to help grandkids make them.  That kind of stuff is what makes Christmas

[Tom]

Noble,
I've got some potent rum.  Wonder if that would work.

Farmerdoug,
I hadn't considered the fire aspect.  Guess I need to be careful

Gael has got some little red-shirted, bearded dolls laying around with straight pins stuck in them.  Do you reckon she plans to put me in a collection?

[Michigan Mike]

We have a real tree. This year it is a blue spruce.   I quess I should have inspected it a little better because after I cut it it didn't fall.  I got to looking  at it and right at the base there was another stem (trunk)?  So I cut that one too. When we got back to pay for it the owner said I could get another if I wanted but I figured I cut it I bought it. Really it was a pretty tree. Thirty five bucks for a seven foot tree. Whats that figure out  price per board foot    Mike

[Furby]

They have a hard time giving them away at some U-cut places.
The place my folks went to the last several years was getting overgrown.
Several years back they were $15, then $10, I belive some were $5 last year and they had started to cut and burn.
This year they put up the fake tree.

[Bro. Noble]

Tom,  just to be on the safe side,  I'd suggest you and the dog both try about a half pint of that rum (applied internally) just to make sure that it doesn't cause any bad reactions  You could forget the crushed needles and tell your family that you and the dog are giving the place a 'fruitcake' atmosphere  Your family will just adore you,  trust me