We're not particular at all. We usually have an artificial tree, but this year we got a real one. The kids decorated it for the most part, while I took pics of them
My daughter keeps pulling all of the ornaments off to play with them, and then puts them all back one on branch. lol. I love to have our tree be sentimental, not all fancy with coordinating stuff and ribbon, etc. That looks too hotel lobby to me.. I really like having decorations that the kids made and have collected over the years. Things that mean something. When we move into our bigger farmhouse, we will probably have more than one tree, I'll make a fancier one then maybe, and keep the sentimental one as the main tree