Christmas trees - real or placky?

What kind of tree are you going to be wrapping your fairy lights around this year?

  • Real - you can't beat the smell and I can put up with the crap that falls off it

    Votes: 24 36.4%
  • Plastic - better for the environment and you can reuse it every year, thus saving dosh

    Votes: 29 43.9%
  • We don't have a Christmas tree

    Votes: 8 12.1%
  • What is a Christmas tree?

    Votes: 5 7.6%

  • Total voters
    66
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rich p

ridiculous old lush
Location
Brighton
Keep it real.
They don't drop these days and I've got a vacuum cleaner anyway.
 
Build one, Mort. Beer bottle one is probably going to be a hot favourite. Last weekend I saw a neat 'Nespresso pod' effort, a 'Fairtrade' one...all sorts of 'originality'. I've done plaster beads, rough timber, polystyrene, plywood (@threebikesmcginty !!!) ...even cold roll tarmac and astroturf in the past, and A142 road mesh... A flat tree is best - to be hung on the wall and taken down, just like a picture. I was going to build some spiral trees this year, and flog them, but in America, it has already been done...many pillowcases at the end of the bed ago...
Have a browse(not mine)...http://www.pinterest.com/track88cyclist/christmas-tree-ideas/
 

Chromatic

Legendary Member
Location
Gloucestershire
If it was up to me we wouldn't have one, if we had to have one and it was up to me what sort it would be artificial. I am however outvoted as usual so I have to spend a ridiculous amount of money on a real one only for it to be thrown in a christmas tree recyling skip after a few days of it stood in the corner of our room.
 

nickyboy

Norven Mankey
Placcy all the way. Decent ones look very realistic and we've got one of those "Christmas tree essence" sprays. Pack it away 12th night, job done. No pine needles, no disposing of the tree, no boring shopping for the tree, no transporting it home. And they're cheaper over their useful life of course
 

Joshua Plumtree

Approaching perfection from a distance.
Last year the Christmas tree in our town centre was replaced by some monstrosity built from a local fisherman's crab pots complete with a hoarding advertising his fish shop!!

Needles to say, I didn't attend the grand switching on ceremony! :angry:
 

ianrauk

Tattooed Beat Messiah
Location
Rides Ti2
placky... it's about 10 years old.. 6ft jobby. still looks like new. Its in the garden shed at the moment. Plan to get out at the weekend. If Mrs Ian would go into the garden shed it would have been up an age ago,
 

raleighnut

Legendary Member
Both, we have a plaggy one in the house and one that 'self set' at the side of the house right nearby an airvent. Seems churlish not to run a set of lights to it (outdoor LEDs with the transformer indoors) and stick a few cheap baubles and a bit of tinsel on but not til Christmas Eve (traditionalistic I know but it makes it more special somehow to get the fire lit and spend the afternoon/evening putting the decorations up with a few glasses of mulled wine :cheers:)
 

AndyRM

XOXO
Location
North Shields
I've got a large pile of books which is charity shop bound.

Before they go, I'm going to build one of these:

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nickyboy

Norven Mankey
Ours has been up since Nov 30 as well....I'm away for a couple of weeks so Mrs Nickboy asked me to pop the tree up before I went. To hell with convention, it looked lovely

Anyway, I'm very interested in the various ways people spell "placcy, plakky, placky"....there was even a "plaggy" upthread somewhere
 
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