What kind of tree will you have in your home this year?

[Badgerinmaine]

My wife and I just put up the first Christmas tree in the new house we bought. So, my question to you is: Are you putting up a real tree or an artificial tree?

[packinpatland]

We went an picked ours out today. Nice fraser fir from Vermont.

[Badgerinmaine]

We bought ours from a local grower from here in Maine. It's a Fraser Fir, too.

[BallHawk]

Hooray for Judaism!

[Kiwon]

Fake tree. It's illegal to cut trees in Korea.

[bobblehead]

Neither, but my wonderful mother will have the usual fake tree up for my annual return to wonderful shawano, WI for christmas.

[Freak Out]

I just cut one down in my front yard...I kind of have a small blue spruce tree farm....nature at it's best.

[Iron Mike]

Balsam fir for the IM household.

[texaspackerbacker]

Artificial--actually, two of them.

[Joemailman]

Canaan Fir from a tree farm northeast of Wausau.

[SkinBasket]

Balsam Fir from some guy who lives in his truck. The wife keeps threatening to get an artificial one, but every time we look, they still look like ass compared to the real thing.

[sheepshead]

Here's mine before I take it off the car:

[oregonpackfan]

We got a Douglas Fir--the state tree of Oregon.

Yes, we still did the traditional trip out to a local tree farm to select and cut our tree.

I realize I am definitely getting older as it seemed to take more effort to saw it down with my trusty hand saw. When one guy showed up with his own chain saw, I cast a very contemptuous look at him. By the time, I was only 3/4th of the way hand-cutting my tree, I was getting downright envious of him!

[Joemailman]

Guy cutting down Christmas tree with chainsaw = Girly man.

[MJZiggy]

I dunno. I like trees so I pull mine out of a box each year. Doesn't smell all piney, but doesn't need watering either. I wonder what they do with all the trees at the end of the season. Surely there must be some purposeful thing that gets done with them. Right?