Tree Wars - Fake Pine or Real?

With better looking fake tress can you tell the difference?

Still hoping I'm not the only one now deciding on this.

For those of us late in the game deciding whether to buy a real tree - the good ones are probably all gone already.

Where were you, seriously? They've been out since late October.

If you're still here, the great Holiday debate remains to be the big "Should I buy a tree this year?"

I for one love the smell - except when you leave it an extra month after Christmas and it starts to smell like putrid egg water.

Other than that, they're obviously beautiful! Except when they poke you in the eye when you reach down low to get your gift (that looks like Santa really didn't want you to have, as it's pushed strangely near the egg water.)

It becomes more of a problem when pine needles fall every four seconds, which gets worse if you leave it for three months like I do and they really become desiccated rotten egg-leaves.

At least it looks beautiful for two weeks.

Then there are the false trees - you don't have to bring them in, get scratched up setting it up on the stand or replace them every year.

You can't get them as large though and the tinsel falls off - and that's more of a pain to clean up than dry pine, because it blows away with every sweep or fills the vacuum up really fast - especially when you're putting up decorations.

It also smells like plastic.

It depends on value too - whether you see buying a pine tree every year to be worth the Holiday cheer.

That's an extra gift someone could have had, yet they are really pretty. Both are a mess to clean up, but with the fake tree, most would consider it to be a better value.

Besides fake trees are better looking now - so it all comes down to wanting a true tree or less hassle.

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