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Iwant2kssuallovr
62 / female
Bendover, Florida, US
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Real vs. Fake?
Christmas Tree Debate: Real vs. Fake?
Frank Lowenstein, director of climate adaptation for The Nature Conservancy, solves the age-old debate: real Christmas trees are a better choice for your family and the environment than artificial trees.
Real trees smell wonderful inside your home. They are easy to recycle. It takes a lot of fossil fuel and carbon to make a plastic tree. When one tree is cut down, three more are planted in its place which store carbon, thus, reduces carbon in the air and preventing negative changes in our climate.
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| December 3, 2012, 20:57 |
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Re: Real vs. Fake?
When my kids were little, I always got a real tree. Usually a Doug Fir. Nowadays? Fake. Im not putting up with needles getting entwined in carpets, trying to put the trunk on the base and realizing it's too thick and having to get the saw out and dealing with all that sticky sawdust. This one goes up on Christmas Eve and comes down on New Years Day. And I dont care who wants to call me Scrooge or The Grinch. There's plenty of other reasons for that other than a fake tree
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| December 3, 2012, 21:12 |
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perveman
111 / male
Tucson, Arizona, US
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Re: Real vs. Fake?
Agreed. Besides that, why does anyone believe the huge lumber companies would do any different than to plant more new trees, for every one they cut down? Only makes sense, they need the trees to stay in business. Most ppl are not aware of this fact.
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| December 3, 2012, 21:18 |
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Re: Real vs. Fake?
We have a fake tree every year, I think we had a real one a few times when I was a kid. You don't have to vacuum up pine needles, or water it. Which is good when you have little kids around and pets like we have here. We stick those scented sticks in the tree and it pretty much makes the entire house smell like pine.
I don't have a preference either way. Regardless of how you celebrate it still a tree and one is just way less work.
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| December 4, 2012, 00:07 |
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GG317
60 / male
Bowl of Granola, Massachusetts, US
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Re: Real vs. Fake?
While we're on the subject, does anyone find it disconcerting that my local fire department is selling real trees? Unless business is that bad that they feel the need to stir up a fire or two to keep themselves busy around the holidays... 
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| December 4, 2012, 01:35 |
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sybianwatcher1
49 / male
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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Re: Real vs. Fake?
I always cut a real one off my place, but try to locate a thick stand that needs thinning, and no little animals sleeping in the branches. I cut my own because they are free and available, after christmas I'll peel the tree and put the "rail" in my hayloft, when a young couple get married , I'll offer to make them a log bed as a wedding gift, from the recycled christmas trees. It is also mountain tradition to include a post on the headboard thats been struck by lightning, although i'm not sure why.
Here in Canada, it is law , that for every harvestable tree, cut down commercialy , 3 seedlings must replace it. If a clear cut is not replanted, the fines go well into the millions, and a stumpage licsence is never reissued.
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| December 4, 2012, 03:19 |
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Re: Real vs. Fake?
I want a big aluminum one.
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| December 4, 2012, 04:21 |
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newbie1011
62 / female
The Shore, New Jersey, US
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Re: Re: Real vs. Fake?
QUOTE (sybianwatcher1 @ December 4, 2012, 03:19)I always cut a real one off my place, but try to locate a thick stand that needs thinning, and no little animals sleeping in the branches. I cut my own because they are free and available, after christmas I'll peel the tree and put the "rail" in my hayloft, when a young couple get married , I'll offer to make them a log bed as a wedding gift, from the recycled christmas trees. It is also mountain tradition to include a post on the headboard thats been struck by lightning, although i'm not sure why.
Here in Canada, it is law , that for every harvestable tree, cut down commercialy , 3 seedlings must replace it. If a clear cut is not replanted, the fines go well into the millions, and a stumpage licsence is never reissued.
I love some of your traditions.
A fake tree pre-lit is just easier for me these days. My kids do most of the set up these days. We decorate for Christmas and Chanukah so we have an interesting bunch of ornaments. I have also downsized the tree and decor in general.
Most people don't realize the tradition of bringing in a pine tree had nothing to do with Christmas at all. It was not a religious symbol at all.
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| December 4, 2012, 21:38 |
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yepper12
73 / male
Jeffersonville, Pennsylvania, US
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Re: Real vs. Fake?
Do not have any but it used to real only DAM I miss those days 
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| December 4, 2012, 22:33 |
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