Real or Fake?

[full choke]

Real.

 

[elkguide]

Wife wants to go fake but can't afford a 15' plastic tree to reach the ceiling.

Besides, they just look so.... FAKE!

 

[Billy Goat]

I never thought the kind of Christmas tree you put up was so controversial

BS

I think you have controversial Google algorithm loaded for your morning dookie.

 

[Spike elk]

Real tree that we "harvest" every year. We skip the cutting part and shoot it down with a shotgun. Been a fun redneck family tradition.

 

[Hnthrdr]

Suck it…


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She’s a beaut Clark

 

[roadrunner]

Spent years cutting until one year there was too much mud to get around (warm November and early December). Got a fake one that year and haven't looked back.

We mostly have pinion pine, lots of sap...

 

[Jstumbaugh]

We always had a real tree growing up and when my wife and I built our house we kept that going. 18' tall great room ceiling allowed us plenty of space for a beautiful real tree. Then one night, around 1 in the morning, a 12 footer tipped over. That was our last real tree. Wife picked up a fake on on clearence and its been in use for 5-6 years now. I don't miss the needles and sap, watering it, or the mess trying to get it back through the porch door when its popcorn dry come January. We can put the fake up the day after Thanksgiving and take it down whenever we want.

 

[Tobe_B]

Real tree every year. We go up the day after thanksgiving, regardless of roads or weather conditions. It’s good fun and family memories. My wife seems to think the tree needs to touch the ceiling. We curbed that when I refused to drag the tree back out the door and trim it up, instead I just brought the chainsaw in the dining room and made adjustments there. She has since lowered that expectation and set a self imposed limit at 8’, we have yet to go lower than 13’.

 

[Reburn]

Fake.

There are no good trees anwhere close to Texas. Im not paying someone to buy a tree they cut down. That seems way gayer then having a fake tree. Oh here is a tree I paid a real man to cut down.

 

[Jskaanland]

Real, I do use a battery powered dewalt to make the environmentalist happy. This year we got two up in the woods. My wife tells me it’s the only tag I’m able to fill every year…

 

[Gutshotem]

Real

 

[EastHumboldt]

This reminds me… I gotta put up the fake tree before my SIL stops by and accuses me of being a grinch.

 

[Marbles]

My takeaway, RS is full of fakes..... Surprising buch of hippie, tree hugger, commie reds.

Fake.

There are no good trees anwhere close to Texas. Im not paying someone to buy a tree they cut down. That seems way gayer then having a fake tree. Oh here is a tree I paid a real man to cut down.

Well, it is Texas, so it makes sense Texan boys would have to pay real men to cut their trees.

 

[Bcoonce117]

Real, cut it down myself. 12 footer. Was 13 but didn’t leave room for star lol

 

[Laelkhunter]

Growing up had 70’s silver tinsel fake tree. I think the trauma from that monstrosity shapes my tradition today.
100% real since the tree decision has been mine

I had one of those aluminum foil trees when I first got married. It was given to us second hand, and had a light with 4 colors on a wheel that rotated changing the color of the tree. Couldn't afford much else on a Police Officer's salary when I cleared $92 every two weeks.

 

[Wapiti7]

I'm with ucsdryer...

 

[Ross]

Was always a battle in our house growing up in the 60s/70s. Pops would chop and drop one, mom wanted fake. As noted above, remember those shiny metallic trees from the 70s and thought that was wild. These days it is a real mini grinch tree as we call it For a decade we had an antler tree until Odin came along.

 

[Phaseolus]

Upon seeing the headline, my mind went to the gutter.

 

[Blake_08]

Another vote for fake. Well, real antlers fake tree.

 

[AnnualRye]

Fake Christmas tree?!