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Nope!

I just hire someone to stand in the corner after I cover them in lights.

We have large floofy ragdoll cats, 14lb missiles of Christmas tree doom.

Thus, we have neither.

Neither

Surprised no one mentioned cost. When I moved to a city it got real expensive to buy a new tree each year. When I lived in a place where pine trees grew it was a lot cheaper.

Bought a tree about 7 years ago that fits in my place and spent $45 once.

It’s way nicer to have a real tree but I saved hundreds at this point.

Man are artificial trees a TON of work to keep nice.

Artificial, real trees are not easily available where I live. Plus we get the same tree every year!

Plastic.

I use an artificial, don't see the point of cutting down a whole tree for it to slowly die in your house over a month to then throw it out after.

If there were more services where you could rent the tree and then it gets put back in the ground after the season I would be all for it.

Artificial trees you buy once and you don't need to replace it for years if not decades. Though would prefer if they started making them with biodegradable plastic

Neither. Cutting down a healthy tree for a little ritual seems extremely wasteful to me. I don't care much about Xmas so I don't have a fake tree, either. I do have lights up in the apartment, but they're up year round. I like the colors.

Why would i want a real tree? They're messy and EXTREMELY FLAMABLE

I feel like I'm "not allowed" either.

I grew up in a very religious household/extended family. When I was 19, I became agnostic. But I actually really enjoy the Christmas season and decorations. It doesn't have a religious tie to me, but it has a nostalgic tie to me.

My husband is VERY jaded/exhausted/raged by Christianity as a whole. Their very existence pisses him off. So naturally, Christmas pisses him off.

But in a fantasy world where we could all get past this bullshit -- I'd honestly be happy with either. I grew up with artificial trees, but real trees always seemed better. But killing trees to be a decoration in your home for a month seems wrong..

Final answer- artificial tree would be my choice if I decorated.

When I was a kid we did a real tree. When we visited my brother last year we did a small real tree. Normally we have a fake tree.

We had some deaths in the family and some sicknesses, so we weren't feeling festive last year and set up a 3 foot tall fake tree before we skipped town. This year, today, I set up the big huge fake tree as a surprise while my wife wasn't home. I'm hoping the Christmassy decor without the work will get her into the Christmas spirit. We'll see if she's glad or annoyed. :-D

Still deciding.

• I have fond childhood memories of traipsing through a tree farm until we found the right one, then taking turns using the old two handled buck saw we carried out, then trying to work as a team to carrry a massive tree back
• now I live in an urban area with no nearby tree farm. I’m sticking spending well over $100 and I don’t have a car with roof rack to carry it.

Sometimes I use an artificial tree and sometimes I goto Home Depot as the most reasonably priced place to get a real one. Last year the selection at Home Depot was bad plus they were all small so I spent twice as much at a higher end place

@butterycroissant one of my imfant memories is going to woods somewhere so my mum could steal the christmas tree, its a good memorie :)

nowadays its artificial for sure, i am to pussy to steal things

Fake tree. Easier, safer, less messy. Yeah, it's plastic, but it lasts as long as you want to keep using it. We just got a new one because we needed a skinny one for space reasons. But the old one we had for over a decade, and we sold it on to someone else.

Fake.

The real ones are expensive, throwaway fire hazards.

After 3-4 years of throwing away real trees you’d easily have enough for a nice artificial tree that will last decades.

I bought an artificial one second-hand which felt like the most sustainable option - not cutting a tree down every year and not paying for virgin plastic either. Charity shops here are usually filled with pretty nice ones since a lot of people seem to replace their plastic trees far more frequently than they should.

This year we bought a real one, but we’ve used artificial before. I’m pretty neutral on the whole thing; love real trees, but artificial trees at least don’t kill real trees (unless you count the likely toxic manufacturing process)

Have always had artificial. My parents still use the same tree they used when I was a kid. When my wife and I bought our own place we invested in a good quality artificial and I expect it to last just as long.

Real trees are a nice idea but I’ve seen far too many horror stories about them causing fires, and even if they don’t go up in flames they still drop needles and insects everywhere. Why take the risk?

none, my house keeps getting messy despite expending few hours of cleaning every week, no time for extra chores

I live in Australia. Everyone here does fake trees.

we've used artificial for at least the last 9 years now. Less cleanup, less expensive and easy to setup

We 'rent' a real tree. After Christmas we bring it back and they re plant it.

Number one cause of house fires around Christmas time, dry trees in homes. We put up the same artificial tree every year.

artificial because killing a tree is repulsive to me. killing a tree for a tradition full of lies makes it even more repulsive

I used to go real, but lack of proper ones made me go artificial instead.

I grew up on the countryside where part of holiday tradition involved grabbing a saw and finding a proper tree in one of the many woods around the property. Now that I live more urban I have to rely on whatever is on the market. And the quality of the market is awful, so I might as well have something that at least looks good.