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Real or Fake?

December 4th, 2008 by Bryan Allain | Filed under life.

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Our tree is up! We’ve gone with the fake tree for a few years now. Erica says she hates it, but deep down she knows she loves the lack of a mess and the easy take down and storage. Not to mention that we don’t have to spend $50-$100 a year on a tree.

What’s that? You want that authentic pine smell? That’s why they make Pine-sol. Put on a little in the morning instead of perfume or cologne and you’ll get that Christmas tree smell all day.

What about you? Real tree or Fake Tree? You can leave your reasons in the comments, but more importantly, I’ve got a poll going on in the sidebar over there. If you’re reading this in a feed reader, click over to the blog and vote. It’s wicked important.

Let your voice be heard! Let’s show em once and for all that fake trees are the only way to go!

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15 Responses to “Real or Fake?”

  1. Geof F. Morris | 4/12/08

    FAKE!

  2. GFMorris.com » links for 2008-12-04 | 4/12/08

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  3. davejac | 4/12/08

    that is a good lookin’ tree!

  4. Bryan Allain | 4/12/08

    Thanks! Guess how much I paid for it this year? NOTHING!!! Same for last year and the year before that! Why? Because I love the environment, that’s why!

  5. SillyJoe | 4/12/08

    100% fake. When the season is over you can take it down and throw it in the attic, and don’t have to shop for one ever again. There’s no pine needles all over your floor and…let’s just be honest, I don’t think putting a bunch of electrical lights up in a pine tree is very cool about fire safety.

  6. Mark Traphagen | 4/12/08

    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.

  7. Bryan Allain | 4/12/08

    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.

  8. Leslie Fritz | 4/12/08

    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!

  9. Ross Harris | 4/12/08

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

  10. Kelly | 5/12/08

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

  11. Chris Hubbs | 5/12/08

    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. :-)

  12. Jeff H | 5/12/08

    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.

  13. Sherri | 5/12/08

    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.

  14. links for 2008-12-05 - chrishubbs.com | 5/12/08

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  15. David Carrel | 6/12/08

    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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