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Posted: 11/27/2006 5:34:30 PM EDT
[#1]
In true Arfcom fashion I have both!
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Posted: 11/27/2006 5:35:39 PM EDT
[#2]
I vote fake for me.
I just don't have the heart to cut a living thing down to just throw it away a few weeks later. With some of the fake trees you see today, you can hardly tell the difference anyway. I can save a bit over time with one tree, too. Yeah, I know. I'm a closet tree-hugger. 
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Posted: 11/27/2006 5:38:03 PM EDT
[#3]
Your Jewish constituents will want to vote for a "Menorah," spell dude.
It's gotta be real, but I can't talk since we'll be out of town so didn't buy one this year. We have a substitute little fake tree. |
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Posted: 11/27/2006 5:38:12 PM EDT
[#4]
Real tree, and with real candles. (None of this new-fangled electric crap!  ) |
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Posted: 11/27/2006 5:38:21 PM EDT
[#5]
Neither, I don't feel the need to line the pockets of Chinese factory owners to celebrate the birth of my Lord.
I'll tree it up when/if I have kids though. I might go plant a tree in December. |
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Posted: 11/27/2006 5:38:43 PM EDT
[#6]
Fakw tree for me! Can't see spending $30+ on a tree I gonna throw out in a few weeks.
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Posted: 11/27/2006 5:41:07 PM EDT
[#7]
This poll is racist. There is no option for a Kwanzaa Cup, Kwazaa Mat or Kwanzaa Corn Cob, or Kevin, the Kwanzaa Kleenex.
 I abstain. Sheep |
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Posted: 11/27/2006 5:42:13 PM EDT
[#8]
Spruce trees are made in Chinese factories now? 
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Posted: 11/27/2006 5:44:22 PM EDT
[#9]
Fixed. Sheep |
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Posted: 11/27/2006 5:44:39 PM EDT
[#10]
Real people have real trees.
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Posted: 11/27/2006 5:46:25 PM EDT
[#11]
You are one brave dude. I'm into tradition and all but damn. |
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Posted: 11/27/2006 5:47:00 PM EDT
[#12]
My question is how many is too many? So far my wife has 7 trees!!
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Posted: 11/27/2006 5:47:58 PM EDT
[#13]
You communist heathens better sound off and tell me you love real trees.
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Posted: 11/27/2006 5:50:47 PM EDT
[#14]
Real. I like the way they smell.
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Posted: 11/27/2006 5:52:06 PM EDT
[#15]
I like a tasty cheese, not medium but, sharp.
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Posted: 11/27/2006 5:53:07 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/27/2006 5:53:58 PM EDT
[#17]
I grew up with a shitty fake tree.
Every year I make it a point to cut down a real tree with my family, it's a tradition we look forward to every year. |
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Posted: 11/27/2006 5:55:11 PM EDT
[#18]
Festivus Pole.
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Posted: 11/27/2006 5:55:48 PM EDT
[#19]
When I was growing up, we ALWAYS had real candles on the tree, and while we always had a bucket of water handy, we never caught a tree on fire. (In retrospect, a good fire extinguisher would probably have been better - given how well pine/spruce burns ).I'll try to remember to post a picture after Christmas this year (and hopefully not one like Penguin_101 posted). I do have to admit that one Christmas in the army, a tree with candles did catch fire in the sergeant's mess. But, to be fair, it was because one of the other sergeants knocked it over while drunk.
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Posted: 11/27/2006 5:56:42 PM EDT
[#20]
My real tree is in the front yard decorated, i have a fake in the house, iv'e been a fireman over 10 years and there are at least 5 fires enery year due to drying trees and cheap ass 6 ft. extension cords. Plus electrical heaters.
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Posted: 11/27/2006 6:00:32 PM EDT
[#21]
I personally hack down a noble fir each year.
Go real or go home scrooge 
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Posted: 11/27/2006 6:03:44 PM EDT
[#22]
Fake. A good fake. Light a scented candle and ya can't tell the difference.
Buy it once, and no goddamn needles and cleanup in a couple weeks. |
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Posted: 11/27/2006 6:07:28 PM EDT
[#23]
I'm gonna try something new this year. Going to the wash and going to cut down a young mesquite tree with no ants on it. Gonna use that it I can find a decent looking one.
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Posted: 11/27/2006 6:09:47 PM EDT
[#24]
My parents have had the same fake tree since I was born, that means the tree is at least 27 years old. Still looks awesome, still looks real, and no other tree looks "right" to me.
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Posted: 11/27/2006 6:13:07 PM EDT
[#25]
Real. At least as long as I live in Oregon. I'll be damned if you think I'm going to pay $75-150 for a tree.
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Posted: 11/27/2006 6:19:18 PM EDT
[#26]
Vaccuming up the needles is part of the fun. For the next month everytime you run the vaccum the house smells like Christmas. |
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Posted: 11/27/2006 6:37:32 PM EDT
[#27]
fake tree, I hated vacuming pine needles up everyday when I was a kid
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Posted: 11/27/2006 6:45:11 PM EDT
[#28]
Your avatar creeps me out
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Posted: 11/27/2006 6:47:29 PM EDT
[#29]
I wouldn't get caught dead with a fake tree. A man has to have standards!
Cutting your own tree as a family is a good Christmas memories-builder for the kids. |
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Posted: 11/27/2006 7:01:31 PM EDT
[#30]
Anybody have humping deer (wire with lights wrapped around them) in their yard.
its kinda like a family tradition to go around town and make as many hump as you can. 
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Posted: 11/28/2006 3:19:17 AM EDT
[#31]
Two bucks? You're makeing those poor deer gay!
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Posted: 11/28/2006 3:56:42 AM EDT
[#32]
Didn't you see the "Other stuff" option? Maybe you would have recognized it if I said "other crap."  |
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Posted: 11/28/2006 3:58:15 AM EDT
[#33]
You go to strip joints for Christmas? |
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Posted: 11/28/2006 4:02:39 AM EDT
[#34]
Real.
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Posted: 11/28/2006 4:09:00 AM EDT
[#35]
fake all the way for me this year. The fiber optic ones are just too darn cool.
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Posted: 11/28/2006 4:12:08 AM EDT
[#36]
I grew up with fake trees (my mom was overwhelmingly terrified of real trees' fire issues). We even had an aluminum tree for many years.
So.....We buy the biggest real tree that will fit in our living room. |
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Posted: 11/28/2006 10:29:13 AM EDT
[#37]
That makes your favorite Christmas song "Burning Down the House" by the Talking Heads! |
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Posted: 11/28/2006 10:35:50 AM EDT
[#38]
Thata wasnt my work. Come to think of it, I've never took any pictures of my work. 
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Posted: 11/28/2006 10:39:18 AM EDT
[#39]
I wanted a fake tree but the man won't have it. He wanted to go cut our own and I said no he can go cut it if he wants it so bad but at least I said we can get a real one but damn we don't need to cut it ourselves. I hate Christmas ....to me it's not about all that stuff. I put up my Nativity set and I am happy. We do have small ones in the family no though so I said yes for them.
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Posted: 11/28/2006 10:43:30 AM EDT
[#40]
I am a purist also, so REAL! But, I have to admit the prices are getting very high it seems. Last year it was $75 or $80 for a 8ft tree. Maybe this year we will go for a smaller live tree and plant it afterward.
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Posted: 11/28/2006 10:44:11 AM EDT
[#41]
I buy a small evergreen in a pot and then plant it outside after Christmas.
I hate fake trees. |
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Posted: 11/28/2006 10:47:29 AM EDT
[#42]
 We paid $25 for a cut-your-own Blue Spruce that is 8' tall. Av. |
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Posted: 11/28/2006 11:51:06 AM EDT
[#43]
+1 I grew up with a FAKE WHITE TREE.  Soon as I had my own place I had a real tree and have had them ever since. |
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Posted: 11/28/2006 11:56:19 AM EDT
[#44]
Went fake a long time ago and never looked back.
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Posted: 11/28/2006 12:00:44 PM EDT
[#45]
I'm a fake tree convert ... We always had a real tree growing up, and once my wife and I bought a house we did real trees for a few years, but after the expense, and mess, and mess, and mess, and having to dispose of it after the holidays, and mess ... we got a good looking plastic tree a few years ago, and are hooked ... drag it out of the attic the day after T-day, leave it up until the first week of the new year, no watering, no vacuuming, no bugs, looks absolutely perfect, and has paid for itself in what we would've spent over the past 3 Holidays.
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Posted: 11/28/2006 11:29:26 PM EDT
[#46]
What with MaDanby being allergic to trees we've had and the dogs maybe doing things we don't want them to do, a really nice artificial tree does it for us. In any case once you hang stuff the way we do, you really can't tell.
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Posted: 11/29/2006 1:31:38 AM EDT
[#47]
We've got 1 real and 1 fake.
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Posted: 11/29/2006 1:39:43 AM EDT
[#48]
I try to use a real tree if I'm going to be home long enough to enjoy it. Otherwise I have a little fiber optic desk tree that just gives me the giggles. I don't know what it is about that thing but I can't stop looking at it.
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Posted: 11/29/2006 1:41:54 AM EDT
[#49]
A real tree is the only way to go, its Christmas.
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Posted: 11/29/2006 1:49:55 AM EDT
[#50]
When I finally escape this desert hell hole I'll start getting real trees again(I love the smell,and tradition)however,synthetic is alot more practical for now.
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