We always get a real tree. We got ours yesterday from the same friendly place we've been getting it from for 20 years or more. It's about seven feet tall, it's a noble fir this year and it's in our cold outhouse in a bucket of water (base sawn off first) until we bring it in. It's our wedding anniversary on the 18th (47 years!) so we get it in and decorate it the day before. We squabble over when Twelfth Night is. She reckons it's the 5th but I go for the 6th. Then, down it comes.