- A real tree isn't always perfectly shaped but each one is unique
just like people.
- The real tree you pick will look different each year... taller,
wider, or even have a different type of needle.
- Real trees are fragrant and smell like forest.
- A real tree spends 8 to 10 years growing on a farm, all the while
producing oxygen and providing shelter for wildlife before it makes it
into your living room.
- A real tree is biodegradable and can be mulched for garden compost,
used for a fragrant bonfire or even sunk into lakes and ponds to provide
habitat for fish.
- You and your family can spend an afternoon in the fresh outdoors of a
tree farm picking from thousands of trees, perhaps even enjoying a hay
ride and a cup of hot chocolate around a bonfire.
- A real tree provides a job for the grower and his hired help during its
life on the farm and is then replaced by another tree to start the
cycle over.
- Real trees use carbon dioxide, a gas emitted by automobiles and
factories. Then the trees turn it into clean oxygen to breathe.
- Real trees are enviromentally friendly. Most trees are grown on a farm
and are a recyclable and a renewable resource.
- Real trees last 1 month or so after they're cut (plus 8 years of growth
time). True, but the one you buy the next year will look even better
and your children will remember the experience for a lifetime.
- Real trees that are fresh and properly watered and cared for lose few
needles and will not support a flame.
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- An artificial tree has a prefect shape (but it still looks fake).
- The artificial tree you buy is exactly like thousands of others and
will look pretty much the same every year (HO HUM).
- Fake trees smell like......?
- An artificial tree spends eleven months wasting space in your closet
before you set it up.
- An artificial tree is non-biodegradable and will last for thousands of
years in our landfill after you throw it out.
- After Christmas, an artificial tree goes back in the closet to collect
dust.
- Your family can spend a few stressful hours in a crowded shopping
mall looking for an artificial tree.
- An artificial tree creates a job in a factory during its manufacture
until a machine replaces the job.
- Artificial trees use non-renewable resources and energy and create
pollution during their disposal.
- Artificial trees are unfriendly. See above.
- Artificial trees last forever. Also true, but you'll probably get tired
of it in a few years and then spend hundreds on a new one while the
old one goes to the dump.
- Artificial trees don't shed, true, but they can catch fire and when they
do they emmit poisonous gases.
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