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timark_uk
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Thanks for sharing but what about a Christmas tree? I'm not a big fan of killing a tree just for the hell of it. Mark
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EddArmitage
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We have one in the garden that quite often gets lights put on it for christmas. And a plastic one indoors for the cat to get to the top of and then realise she doesn't know how to get down.
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ProfessorF
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Bear in mind these trees are grown with the express intent of them being harvested to use as a Christmas tree... We've always had real ones. At work, we've got 3 real ones, and 9 fake ones. I dislike the fake ones more. Much prefer to have proper ones. Easier to deal with, clean up after (some of ours have that fake flock snow on the branches - it gets everywhere, for days), recyclable, smell nicer, look nicer.
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finlay666
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http://www.christmastreeman.co.uk/Content/default.aspThe service for you  well... maybe if they deliver over the sea 
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timark_uk
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That seems adequate. (8+)
Mark
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pcernie
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Fake ones here, trees I mean  , but wouldn't care if we didn't have one really... _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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onemac
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Fake tree for me ever since the wife and I spent our first Crimbo together. It's her fake tree which was purchased in Germany but manufactured in the far east from metal, plastic, fabric and some other stuff I can't quite recognise  The wife also has small bottles of smelly stuff in either pine, cinnamon or, what is described on the label as 'Christmassy'. Just had some apple and blackcurrant pie and custard  al
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bally199
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Plastic tree for us. Goes up on the 24th, comes down on boxing day. _________________ Kimmotalk is where all the cool people hang.
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adidan
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Asbestos FTW!
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Zippy
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When I was younger, we had a real tree every year, with a rootball, that lived in a pot in the garden for the rest of the year. We repotted the thing every 2 years until it finally died when I was about 17. We then bought a fake one, which actually looks pretty good and has been going since then, but it just doesn't smell the same and doesn't hurt so much getting the lights on properly.
When I have the chance (room, time, inclination etc) I will have a real one every year, cut if I can't find a grown one in a pot.
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timark_uk
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I guess smell is the deciding factor.
I don't miss that aspect about not having a tree, not being ale to smell anything. *shrug*
Mark
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l3v1ck
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Where's the Both option?
We've got a fake up at the moment, but we'll buy a real one in about a week so it lasts over Christmas.
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hifidelity2
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We used to have real when I was at home as we had a fireplace so could burn it in the new year
Now I live where we dont so we have a plastic one that can have its branches bent into various shapes
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belchingmatt
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Burning fresh pine in an open fireplace! Regardless of what PETA say, choose real fir this xmas.
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