If you put up a Christmas tree in your home, do you prefer a real tree or do you like the artificial trees. The reason I ask is have you seen what they charge for Christmas trees now?

Here's my tree, a little artificial that's about 18 inches tall.

Ours is always real tree, blue spruce, cut down in November (so that the juices have time to enclose around the needles)  and we put it up a few days before Christmas--  not always the prettiest one we can find.

My husband & I have a Christmas tree production, have a few acres of them on our farm & we live in Denmark. We sell the blue spruce for export mostly with few private local customers. I suppose the prices are very high now in the States, whereas they are low here in Europe, due to much competition.

It's always so sad to see the natural trees cast aside as garbage after the season ends. What a waste.

We've long preferred the artificial type because you only pay for them once, they don't drop countless needles, turn brown, carry bugs, aren't big fire hazards and we dont have to go out and strap one to the top of a car every year in the midst of everything else we have to do at this time of the season. 

I do artificial now. It broke my heart switching over from real. About 8 years ago I started to develop an allergy to the real ones. The sniffles weren't bad back then and could be managed. But when I took the tree down, wherever the tree touched me I broke out in blisters. My arms were a mess!

We have a nice Manhattan Fir we put up every year.  It was assembled by some nice children in China.  When you stand it up and assemble the three sections all the lights are already on the tree and the branches just flop down into the correct position.  Nevxer will go back to a real tree. 

I'm with Sheldon and Otis, the smell makes a real tree worthwhile.

We don't bother decorating any more but we used to have a pine tree in a pot. It spent most of the year in the garden, or the shade house, but it came indoors for a few weeks every Christmas.

We had a fully decorated artificial tree up for a few years. When my daughter was sick it was the only thing that brought her joy. When she got better we got rid of it and haven't put up a new one since. Although I love a real tree I just don't want something that won't last for long. So I'd probably go artificial if we start celebrating again.

I like a real tree just for the smell

And 25$ for any tree isn't to bad .

I like real trees the smell of it alone changes everything but I don't buy one its just me and kitty

I love a real tree personally.....here, the DNR collects the real trees after the season is over and they use them in our beautiful lakes here as fish attractions....fishing around them is great too! Some people use the live trees with an intact root ball, then plant it after the season.