[Poe969]

I've had a real tree every year for my entire life and I was almost insulted when my wife said we should get a fake one. She then said that if we are getting a real one, we should go out and cut down our own, I'm kind of against that for a few reasons; as pointed out earlier in the thread, there are actual Christmas Tree farms that employ a lot of people so it's helping the economy. Cutting down a random tree in nature can't be good for nature as there really isn't something to replace it unless you plant one but even still the new tree would take a lot longer to grow and effect the ecosystem. It's not the same as getting a farmed one because a farmed tree isn't taking one from nature, it's just taking it from a farm but that's just my opinion. But I think the most important one is that the tree that you go cut down in the forest never really looks as good. My brother in law always goes out and cuts a tree down with his family and it always looks like a crappy charlie brown tree. He counters that it's a fun day out in the woods but I always say that my wife, son and I can go out to the woods and still have fun doing stuff without having the stress of arguing which tree to get.

My big question for everyone here who gets a real tree is, what kind of stand do you get?? We had a really basic one and it ended up leaking and making a mess so we threw it out. What are the best tree stands out there???