Real Tree Or Fake Tree? - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

BigFish · 12-06-2003, 11:15 PM

Well, which do you prefer? Lets open a can of worms here....this should prove controversial!

I grew up with a fake tree and it was all I ever knew....I loved that old beatup tree because I am an old fashioned, traditional guy! However, once I got out of the house and on my own, got a real tree and I never looked back! It just ain't Christmas with a fake tree and I frown whenever I see one.

Not to mention some of these pieces of crap they sell today....FishChicks sister bought a new fake tree the other day and the lights come already on the tree!

What happens when the lights fail? Throw the whole tree away?

I love the smell of a new tree and I do not mind the mess after cleaning up! For the pleasure I get out of it, it is worth it to me! My brother has a fake tree and every year we go over to his house and the damn thing always looks the same, year after year!

Which do you have?

Notaro · 12-06-2003, 11:23 PM

Yo, are you surfcasting on the board? You awfully seemed to be bored. Are you and fishchick supposed to be sharing holiday warmth away from the screen?

I got me a fake electric tree. One problem and I'll be zapped hard like a national lampoon.

BigFish · 12-06-2003, 11:26 PM

It's the holidays, just trying to get people in the holiday spirit! Is it working?

Notaro · 12-06-2003, 11:28 PM

If you mean by walking all day long with a frozen ICED jean and a pair of frozen feet today... No, my family and I aren't getting into it now. We don't shop anymore!

The Dad Fisherman · 12-07-2003, 01:53 AM

I like Real trees My wife likes Fake.....Hence we have a fake.

I also like to fish...Got pick which battles I want to win

UserRemoved1 · 12-07-2003, 06:22 AM

most of the fakes out there look like fleepin TOILET BRUSHES.

If you want a nice fake one you gotta spend dough. They look real though....

I'd never have real, I personally think it's a waste of a resource. It's a symbol, not something to kill a tree over....

gilligan · 12-07-2003, 07:54 AM

fake. wrap a sheet around it after new year then break it out next year .all set up! bada boom bada bing. hang a real wreath(sp???) for the smell. thats what ma taught me anyway. the wife dont like it though.

macojoe · 12-07-2003, 11:19 AM

We always hada real when growing up. But I went fake when i got married. Did it for about 15 years and then had to throw it out. Started to use real and did for about 5 years!! But I am glad to say that we got a real nice fake on a after xmas sale and for the last 3 years we are fake again!!
Get one of them pine sented candles and you can have all the smell you want.
I have a few people that ask me every year is that real or fake they can't tell!!

BigFish · 12-07-2003, 12:04 PM

Maco Joe...I am glad you are happy with your tree! Merry Christmas to you and yours! Good reasons...all of them for going artificial! Hey I enjoy throwing artificials.....that does not mean its a bad thing, right!

Slingah · 12-07-2003, 12:09 PM

real if we get one at all.

BigFish · 12-07-2003, 12:12 PM

Come on ya SCROOGE! Where the heck is Santa gonna put all your new plugs, waders, and fishing rods and reels that you have on your list?

You gonna be fishing with 9' coal stick!

Jenn · 12-07-2003, 12:15 PM

No tree up this year...but the past few years have been a small fake tree...and only because space is limited and it was given too us. But I prefer a REAL tree....reminds me of being a kid and my father taking us into the woods to cut our own (I swear he picked the heaviest and FARTHEST from the house on purpose

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BigFish · 12-07-2003, 12:17 PM

I know what you mean Jenn.....sounds like your Dad is a good man!

MrsSFrances · 12-07-2003, 02:02 PM

This year we have a real tree, first time in many years, I grew with a fake tree, and we do have a fake tree still, but since my hubby has started making plugs, its covered in paint dust...Sooooo we got a real one this year...its really pretty, leans to the left alittle bit, but hey what ya going to do...

i like both fake and real...

MrsSFrances · 12-07-2003, 02:10 PM

This is our real tree this year...I am so mad I can not find all our plugs that I hang on the tree..

They are some where in the mess of this house

macojoe · 12-07-2003, 02:17 PM

here is my fake tree!! Almost done putting all that crap on it!

Notaro · 12-07-2003, 02:19 PM

#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&, I just bought your $23.90 pinkie needle on paypal. paypal sucks. Thanks, bugga. I will use it to decorate the tree.

MrsSFrances · 12-07-2003, 02:39 PM

nice maco..i think it looks real...hey maybe we should all post pics of our trees...hehe..i know sounds corney..huh

we could call it christmas trees around the forum...

HighTide · 12-08-2003, 09:48 AM

Mine are fake

Jimbo · 12-08-2003, 12:52 PM

Definitely Real! Family activity, we all pile in the truck and hit some tree farm as far out in the middle of nowhere as I can find. They pick it out and I use the dull bent saw the tree farm provides to cut it down. I get covered in mud, snow and needles cutting it down and when we get home we always find out we bought one taller than the cieling so then there's the trimming off the bottom, hands frozen and covered in pitch, three voices saying over and over, "Daddy (or Honey) when are you going to bring it inside?" Then once inside there's always the discussion about recipes for putting aspirin in the water so it lasts longer, then making me redo the lights five or six times before my womenfolk take over decorating. Sound like a pain in the neck? After all that I sit and have a beer and watch thempicking out ornaments and singing and carrying on and I wouldn't have it any other way.

chris L · 12-08-2003, 03:46 PM

I dont put up a tree ! But I do have my menorah set up with real candles not electric ones .

milo · 12-08-2003, 03:53 PM

well said JIMBO,almost the same thing here except I dont go too far for the tree,but I do help with the lights then just sit back and have a couple of cold ones,OH yea and when its all dec. I gotta put up the angel cause she cant reach that high..but it wouldnt be the same with a fake one....HEY this year she put up a smaller tree for me with just fishin chit,and she dec. the whole tree

Christian · 12-08-2003, 04:03 PM

i was digging out the lights for the christmas tree and found an albert einstein type wig just like a second ago. i went out on my front porch and screamed.

MrsSFrances · 12-08-2003, 04:06 PM

ummmmm...did you have the wig on when you went out and screamed

Jimbo · 12-08-2003, 04:32 PM

Mrs. SF, don't encourage him. Christian, I guess sometime you had a bad experience with Albert Einstein, that's between you and the genius, I don't even want the image in my head, but the question here is, "real or fake?" Chop it yourself, bargain for one off the lot or pull it out of the box fully decorated?
Any Long Islanders out there remember back when the only place you could buy a fake tree (or a pool table) was Harrows on 110?

chris L · 12-08-2003, 04:39 PM

Albert didnt put up a tree either . His menorah was much prettier than mine with real candles . SCREAM louder I didnt hear you !

Slingah · 12-08-2003, 05:45 PM

E-M = C SQUARED!!!!!!!

Christian · 12-08-2003, 06:53 PM

real tree. yes i had it on when i screamed. i got to wear it fishing next season and maybe icefishin. got to get a mullet wig too so i look like an awsome 80s rocker and chris.

Slingah · 12-08-2003, 07:43 PM

it'll keep the head warm ice fishin

CAL · 12-08-2003, 07:45 PM

Been getting real trees for years then last year the landlord said no more so I had to go back to the old fake one. Just not the same