Growing up my parents didn’t have a lot of money, so we would go to the woods to get a Christmas tree. The only trees that we have here that resemble a Christmas tree are cedars. After hanging lights and ornaments, the skin on our arms and hands would be broken out and red. I hate those damn things now.
Ours got almost 15 years before any issues, we just strung some new ones in and left the old on.
I’ve lived in this house 17 Christmases, we bought this tree not long after we moved in, can’t remember exactly but had to be in the first couple/few tears. Everything lit up today.
It was whatever 12’ tree Costco had at the time.
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Had a small one well over 15 years. Some of the lights finally gave out last year. I couldn’t find the (probably) one bad bulb or fuse, so I freecycled it.
Our current, larger, prelit tree (with option for colored or white lights) is on at least its 4th year.
Don’t remember where we got this one. It was a Black Friday deal. We had a smaller fake pencil tree for our apartment and then townhouse (6+ years of use), and when we put it up it was ridiculously small, so we went out and got this one. With two dogs and furniture in the proximity of the tree’s location, I wouldn’t want to deal with the needles, sap, and water.
I grew up w/a fake tree my whole childhood. Living abroad and moving around, the fake tree was just easier I guess. It was white and mostly threadbare (unadorned), was how remember it. Some of the pics here look like really nice trees.
Now that I’m grown up and have my own household, we’ve always gone with real trees. We do a family outing to pick one out and the kids choose. They have to agree with each other (though as parents we reserve veto power).
We’ve actually not gotten a tree yet - youngest doesn’t get back from college for another week.
71 Christmases for me so far with 68 of them with real trees.
Some of the ugliest imaginables are found in photo albums from my childhood. The remaining 3 Christmases were with shipboard Wardroom fake trees while deployed at sea. I am currently on a many year streak of buying acceptable (decent shape and fullness) trees that I pull off the lot while it is still bound in cordage. Not until it is in transported home, placed into the stand and in position do I then remove the binding cord. I always go with Balsam or Douglas firs with a straight trunk and suitable bulk. The year my method turns on me and I find myself with a Charlie Brown tree will be the year I buy one of those fake trees on sale in January.