Meh, I always had a real one.
Well, actually sometime downstate I had a fake one, but I think I was too little to remember..
Real trees don't attract bugs o___O;; Atleast in my houses it doesn't lol..
and, to tell you the truth, I actually like the smell of a Cristmas Tree XD
But true, it is kinda depressing about the whole dying slowly thing ;____;