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Simple question: Are artificial Christmas trees wrong?

We have always had a real one before, but saw some fairly decent looking artificial ones yesterday and now wondering whether it might be easier to have one of these for a few years...at least until our boys are a little less small.  Thoughts anyone?

We don't bother with a tree any more but always used to use an artificial one, less messing about and you don't get needles everywhere.

No, christmas is wrong

Not a fan of the Baby Jesus then, CS?  :D

Atheist as well as miserable, not a good combination.

We have a fibre optic one and it saves a lot of hassle.

We've nearly always had an artificial one at my parents' house. Nothing wrong with that at all, much less hassle and sometimes they can be a bit nicer to look at!

We've got an artificial one that looks nice. We got a real one 3-4 years ago and it was ok, but after xmas you have to get rid of the thing which is a pain in the arse.

you still have to get rid of a fake one (sort of) every year.

I always had an artificial one at home but the missus insisted on a real tree last year and despite my reservations about needles and it dying off, we came back after a week away at New Year and it had shed very little and was still looking very healthy when we took it to the dump...still finding needles in my boot though

Always had a real tree - something about going to buy it (we used to get ours from somewhere near Savernake) and the smell makes it feel super Christmassy!

One of my many foster parents used to burn pine cones on an open fire...then cut a tree down from the many she had on her land in the New Forest....the smell of the burning cones and the tree.......pure Xmas.

Can't beat an open fire Lee, got one raging at the mo

Yep, burning the tree in Jan to keep warm and make the place smell nice is a favourite.  One of the few pleasures of Jan.

Are you a rioter?

An arsonist, like to practice

I just burn the fake ones anyway

good fumes?

Think we would miss not having a real tree nowadays. Love the smell of the real ones and like others after christmas ditch the branches and chop and burn the trunk on the open fire. Saw some Nordic pine ones today but they have gone up £15 from last year and are now £65 for an eight footer. Have been buying these ones for the last few Christmases  and they are brilliant at keeping the needles on the branches and not on the floor.