General Chat

Just been shopping this morning for a new Christmas tree and came home with nothing. Cant decide on fibre optic like the one I have, (son wants it to go in his new house), or one you decorate yourself.

I was set on fibre optic but the best one I saw was dark green tree with red and gold ornaments and loads of little red lights, think I may have made up my mind.

Now need to decide on a big one to stand on the floor or small one to stand on the cupboard.

Marilyn

Go for fibre optic, we had a big normal one last year we had to decorate ourselves.Took all day to put up and another day to dismantle it

One to decorate yourself

But thats cos my kids always do it with me while hubby is at footie, family tradition

So im a softie

Jan x

I have a perfectly servicable plastic 6 foot on in loft with cones and snoW - but OH has never left me put it up ever since we bought a house together.

It served me well but he insists on a real one every year. You can tell he dosent vacuum. He buys ones where the needles are not supposed to shed - but we all know in the end they do!

I would love to have a real tree but my hubby feels very strongly against them (green issues) we have a tall 'realistic' looking artificial one.

We have two Fibre Optic trees at work..personally I dont like them

Think I am going to go for........the one I do myself, red and gold with red lights standing on the floor in the corner, I will have plenty of help to decorate it. I have a long holly thing that goes over my fireplace all entwined with red lights so it will match that, roll on Christmas, only 5 weeks ..isnt it???

I love decorating the tree, so many of the ornaments have sentimental memories.

Ann
Glos

I'm with Ann on this one - love decorating the tree but HATE dismantling it - always manage to get the lights in a hopeless tangle!

I got a prelit lit one to decorate myself.
Not had a tree for a few years but saw all these new decorations I just had to have.
Not the normal baulbes but little birds and twiggy and berry things. Daughter got me a fantastic star made out of twigs and berries 49p.
Germaine
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Pre-lit one here too...they're fantastic... you just add the rest of the decorations. Although our first one only lasted a year, I think they've come on a bit since then and hopefully the new one we bought last year will work still this year. When we came to get it down from the loft last year we realised that everytime we got a new tree we forgot to get rid of the old... we had five up there lol.

I don't like the big fibre optic ones but I did have a teeny one (about 6") when I was away at uni for my room.

Nothing beats getting a little tiddly while decorating the tree. Although, with my fibromylgia it usually has to be spread over several days. lol.

Our star is a fluffy white one that I just had to have when we saw it in Tescos (other supermarkets exist lol) a few years ago.

We are lucky we live in the West Country Donna near a place that grows xmas trees its sustainable or something - it means for everyone you go and chop down (you pick your own Tree) they plant a new one. Its been going for decades and is V Green.

But the pine needles still get everywhere.

it has to be you do yourself......as an only child it was always my job to decorate the tree when i was younger and i hate anyone else to do it now.When my girls were little i used to let them do it then wait till they'd gone to bed,take all the stuff off and do it again myself....lol..what a bad mum i am. now they're 10 and 13 they have a bit more of an idea as to how i like it so i let them do it but...................... unbeknowns to them when they've gone to bed off it all comes again...hehe............

Karen

have had several artificial trees over the years that take loads of dressing.
Got one last years that had fibre optics and its BRILL. still put our lights on it and the Fairy that's a family heirloom plus some of the traditional tree decorations. All in all takes less time to assemble and looks even better than our previous efforts,

Shirley