Christmas trees - real or placky?

[Aperitif]

[QUOTE 3409668, member: 259"]I forgot to add a question about whether or not tinsel is common. But I've got some on the bike, so there![/QUOTE]
So 'yesterday'...makes it look like @richp - past its tinsel by date.

Lametta is a different thing altogether. Bobby my old dog would snaffle every bit he could...with obvious consequences.

 

[User482]

Our greengrocer delivers a "no drop" 8-foot tree for £35. Job done.

 

[Chromatic]

http://www.jtf.com/mailerflip/panel3/brochure.html#p=1

It says 5-6ft on the leaflet, but we went early so we grabbed a tall one.

Ta, seems Kidderminster is the nearest, remembering what I paid last year it would still be worth the journey if it was guaranteed there would be one there when I got there.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I would love a high viz Christmas tree! Fluoro' orange and yellow with reflective decorations and tinsel! Maybe a helmet on top as well, instead of a fairy or a star?

 

[mcshroom]

OT but My LBS sells Christmas trees.

 

[slowmotion]

Flashing lights or non-flashing?????

 

[Custom24]

Keep it real.
They don't drop these days and I've got a vacuum cleaner anyway.

Pine needles are one of the more sasisfying things you can vacuum up, like paper clips or small stones.
Unfortunately, our upright vacuum cleaner blows more pine needles off the tree than it sucks up, so the satisfaction quickly turns to frustration and then to "that's the bloody last year we are having a real tree".

Until next year.

 

[KneesUp]

As a kid I used to love the patter of pine needles on the presents when you 'accidentally' brushed against the tree. Of course that was when we had proper pine trees that dropped like no tomorrow, not this modern Nordman business. The trees of my childhood were always totally bald by Boxing Day.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

I wouldn't bother with a tree if it was up to me, a few lights hung up over the fireplace for convention would see me right but as with others I'm outvoted. Artificial tree here, a big green moderately realistic looking one we've had for ages now. takes a bit to ut together and pretty up but looks nice enough once done. One of these years I'm going to try and get it back in the loft still erect and decorated. I can have my own little Christmas up there in July and pretend I'm an Australian.

 

[summerdays]

Flashing lights or non-flashing?????

Neither, a nice twinkle!

 

[andyfraser]

We always have a plastic tree. We've had the same 5' tree for a few years and as we were moving from a flat to a house this year my OT was looking forward to having a 6' tree in front of the living room window. Once we'd moved and placed the sofas, the TV, the bookcase (full of DVDs), the display case (full of ornaments), the sideboard and the Ottoman thing (currently pretending to be a coffee table in the middle of the living room) in the living room it turned out there's no room for a tree. She doesn't want to move any of the furniture out (and there isn't really anywhere to put it except to store it somewhere) so we now have a 4' tree to go on top of the sideboard, which is in front of the window.

 

[Kestevan]

One of each.
A plastic one in the living room, and a live one in the dining room.

AND BECAUSE IT'S NOT BLOODY CHRISTMAS YET, NEITHER OF THEM ARE GOING UP TILL DECEMBER 20th.

 

[green1]

We have a tree grown in a pot. This will be the last year with our current tree before it goes in the ground as it's nearly 8ft now. Next year's tree is currently about 2ft.

 

[Piemaster]

I'm only surprised no one has posted this yet

 

[Berties]

Real tree all the way,I have been putting some trees in my garden the last two years so hope to have my own next year