Comments on: Real or Fake?

By: David Carrel

David Carrel — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:29:43 +0000

Fake. We can’t get real in Brasil. I would probably prefer real though, just cause that is what I grew up on.

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links for 2008-12-05 - chrishubbs.com — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:30:19 +0000

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By: Sherri

Sherri — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:52:23 +0000

Fake as a politician!

I like what you guys did with the lights.
From the photo it looks like just a fews rows rather than the thousands on my tree that drive me crazy putting on- I really like that look though. Wish I would have seen this photo before I spent hours stringing lights on two of my trees.

By: Jeff H

Jeff H — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:28:46 +0000

Real for the first couple of years that you are in charge of getting the tree…. and then fake after you are tired of dealing with the royal pain that is keeping a real tree for Christmas year after year. We have moved on to the fake tree and we are never going back.

By: Chris Hubbs

Chris Hubbs — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:28:10 +0000

Real is the only way to go. And who pays $50 – $100 for a tree? We got a beautiful Frasier Fir for our living room and paid about $35.

And don’t give me that environmental crap either, Allain. I’ve seen enough tree farms to know they’re replanting the trees as fast as they can cut them.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:59:31 +0000

From the Chicago Tribune: http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/features_julieshealthclub/2008/11/christmas-trees.html

By: Ross Harris

Ross Harris — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:34:02 +0000

Fake all the way man. Aside from the fire hazard a real tree presents, they are just a hassle and an unworthy investment

By: Leslie Fritz

Leslie Fritz — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:17:42 +0000

Fake tree for sure! The one and only year we went out for a real tree (2005 off of Strasburg Rd.) we froze our toes off picking out a nice full real tree, gave it too a worker who took it back to the check-out for us, tied it up and even loaded it onto the top of the van….only to get home to find out the guy mistakenly (?) gave us the wrong tree! It was an awful looking thing-that only grew full branches on one side. We used the sad looking tree all month, our artificial tree was 4 hours away in western Pa! Our next trip to west. Pa we picked up our fake tree so we would be ready for Christmas 06!

By: Bryan Allain

Bryan Allain — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:45:49 +0000

Mark, once you chop it down and set it in your house it is no longer a tree. It’s just really, really uncomfortable furniture.

By: Mark Traphagen

Mark Traphagen — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:40:16 +0000

Not only must it be real (otherwise it is not a TREE), in our household it is a balsam fir or nothing. When we lived in Hawai’i, we hade LL Bean FedEx us one.