Real tree or not, does it depend on your childhood?

I was raised with real trees but we have a fake one. I prefer real but don't like the weeks of eyes streaming and hayfever. Serious allergies to the trees here so fake it is.

We always had a real tree but since downsizing and on my own in a small cottage, I’ve invested in a ‘tree with numbers’. I’m preparing myself for brain exercise tomorrow when Ill endeavour to put it together ?

There weren’t fake trees as far as I know when I was a child (50s) so we had a real one, not very big and it was lit by real burning candles balancing precariously in little clip holders, elf and safety not invented then.
I bought our tree in Woolworths over 40 years ago, it cost 2 weeks wages, but it’s still going strong.
Will get it out of the loft tomorrow for an early start to Christmas.

oh for sure for me, real tree, or not tree. This year, we will be on our own. Daughters say I should decorate and do all the Christmas stuff- but I just don't feel like it. Will do a great dinner- but it will aged beef rib, not turkey and our best wine and local champagne.

We have selected the real tree for next time family comes here- and will cut it just a week before, and put real candles on it, of course. Yes, childhood rules, ok.

Always real. I don’t think artificial ones were really a thing when I was young, until about my teens. I think we may have had an artificial one then but the real trees are the ones in my memory.

We’ve been to buy our (real) tree today and I said to Dh that they’re so big now. There was one small one, about four foot tall - that was probably about the size of our childhood trees!

Always a real one when I was a child but mostly had artificial over the years. I’m not even getting it out of the loft this year.