King Silkbeard
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We are getting a small Tree, per tradition.
I splashed out on a real expensive but class looking perfectly shaped artificial Christmas Tree about 15 years ago. Everybody who came to the house admired it. Perfect height and size for the room. Class.
Then as the daughter got older and more in cahoots with the missus they started telling me, it's better to have a REAL Christmas Tree, they smell so much better and there's a real festive vibe off them. I said the whole "festive" pine smell can be introduced with essential oils (the women LOVE essential oils for some reason) or whatever and that with the cost of real trees, not to mention the hassle and aggravation of having to go out get an imperfect Christmas Tree somewhere, and dispose of it subsequently and make sh*t of your car interior both times, the artificial one that everybody had admired for years had paid for itself many times over.
But no, it HAD to be real
Busy busy lives now and not gotten our real tree yet. I'm going to drop the "we'd have had the tree up easily by now if we'd stayed with an artificial tree" bomb (am I allowed say bomb here yet or will the usual suspects revert to type) later this week
I wouldn't mind even buying another top class artificial tree, but instead of having one boss at home, I now have two. And both of them want a REAL tree. My sons, like me, couldn't really care what type of tree it is, just as long as there's some tree there that doesn't look tatty, and has decorations on it.
And by the way, no matter what real tree we get, don't you just know it'll be my fault if it looks slightly gammy.
Where we buy ours they open the trees out and you pick from the bunch there - then they stick it through the netting yoke so you can get it home, the problem is buying the tree in a big open space and then getting home and remembering that there are things like walls and ceilings! Ive learned to contain it all a bit over the years but theres no chance Im getting an artificial tree, even though the hassle of getting the tree out of th house, into the car, and down to the disposal place is a royal pain in the h*leI'm with you on that one. Never quite felt the need for a real tree. Plus nowadays as someone else mentioned they are all trussed up when you buy them so there's no telling what they really look like.
Then there's the hassle of them.
Also what's the point of having something ' real ' and then lashing on a heap of artificial baubles and whatnot. Keep things consistent would be my motto. Start as you plan to finish
I wonder would there be a market for ' real' decorations for the ' real' tree.
I do, in fairness.
The problem there is you wouldn’t know what three headed monster would be dropped in your driveway at the beginning of December.
