We always had a live tree when first married and when the kids were growing up, so naturally, my daughter thought it was the only way to go. She and her hubby got a live tree several times, and it always ended up producing so much pollen after a couple weeks into the house that her hubby went into sneezing fits. I never had a tree that went into pollinating in my house before so it was a really weird phenomenon to me. But her kids will now grow up with a very nice artificial tree- and a non-sneezing papa, we hope!