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I'm hoping we at least get a small one. We don't have much room in our flat, but it will be my first Christmas away from my parents so I'm feeling the need to go all out in our new home. I left all my ornaments in a friend's attic in Dallas... maybe I'll get them to ship them.
As a tip, make sure to put some jingle bell ornaments on the low branches of the tree. That way you can hear if Charlie is pulling on them and in danger of knocking it over!

we have a little fake one that we'll be putting out. one day we'll get a large fake one. not sure when though.

Im highly, highly allergic to Christmas trees so I've always had artificial ones since I was 7 years old. When my husband and I were seriously dating we bought a fake one and he proposed while we were decorating our tree so it's an important tradition for us. Definitely will be a (fake) tree in our house.

@LANEYBUGSMOMMY - My daughter was 8 months and crawling last Xmas but she didn't bother with the tree or presents at all so you never know. I was surprised!

I think we will put up a tree. It is just so beautiful and I love the smell. But I am a little worried that my daughter won't be so good this year!

We have a large, fake tree I plan to put up. The problem is our cats. We got the fake tree because they wouldn't leave the real one alone, but this fake one is even worse. They actually bend the branches, even. I spend the whole christmas season running back and forth through the house and shouting at the cats, clapping my hands, and sweeping up broken ornaments (or hunting down the unbreakable ones they pull off the tree).. Not looking forward to that. But I think we're having company this year, so we have to put it up.

We have an artificial tree we put up every year. We thinking as a safety precaution we may put a gate around it this year, though.

@Andrea, I hope you're right but as I'm typing this my daughter has rolled under the coffee table and is chewing on its leg and about 5 minutes ago was half inside my entertainment center pulling everything out, so I highly doubt that a large Christmas tree with brightly colored lights is going to go unnoticed!

Definitely! We have a fake one I bought from one of my mom's friends a few years ago. We used to buy real trees but, they're so expensive! Our fake tree works just fine and leaves just enough room for the star on top in the family room. GAH! I can't wait for Christmas!!!!

We're redoing the floor in the living room, so we'll get a tree as long as it's finished in time. (Please, God, let it be finished in time. Peeling up 60+year old linoleum off of oak wood floors has been a pain in our butts!)

I love choosing the perfect tree every year and decorating it!

Not this year, because we'll be away for three weeks in December. We didn't last year either because I was due on the 10th and had no idea when I would deliver and I didn't know if I'd be able to handle the aftermath of a live tree.

Yes!! This will be our 5th Christmas together as a married couple, and I think we've had a tree every year! I always demand (yes, demand) a real tree, because that's what I always had growing up and it brings back such a sense of sweet nostalgia...

The husband hates the clean-up part (the tree always ends up drying out and then drops bristles EVERYWHERE and the cleanup is massive, haha)... but luckily, he humors my requests.

This tradition will be especially important when we DO have kids!

We most certainly are! And my husband says we have to get a real tree as he will not have a "pipe cleaner tree" in his house.

It's a must! We live in the Christmas Tree capital! I started seeing the trucks and hearing helicopters 3 weeks before Halloween.
We've made a tradition to go to a local farm, ride the tractor, pick our tree, they cut it and haul it back and bail it while we wait inside enjoying hot cocoa and cookies. My favorite way to start the Holiday season
For my son's first Christmas we got a blue spruce, he was 8 months old and only touched it one. He learned really quick and so did the cats!! A blue spruce is absolutely gorgeous and smells so good, they're spendy and pretty hard to come by.

if we get one, it'll be a really small one, like a foot tall. lol.

@NODAKADEMIC- That so made me laugh because I sooo understand. We get a real tree and we have 4 cats and they do the same thing. I have litterally found my tree on its side, water from the base on the floor and ornamets everywhere and some broken. Gotten better at getting "durable" ornaments and what not but yes! Hahaha
We will be getting our tree day after Thanksgiving. Place we go to, you take a horse drawn carriage ride whith carolers into the woods. Pick you tree out and ride back. LOVE IT!