When Do You Toss Out Your Tree?

[MouseWife]

Yep, when we were putting up this years tree I found needles from trees from years gone past....

I am also torn about a fake tree. We had one most of the years growing up. It always made me sad. But, I also am sad about the dead tree sitting in my living room. My son didn't get it, I guess, and asked if we could put it outside and try and bring it back to life. I had to esplain' to him it no longer had any roots.

But a fake tree??? Yikes!

Well, I did the deed. I figure the Hubster is dealing with a lot of mess at work {leaking ceilings, security issues, blah blah blah} that I would deal with the mess at home. I had to take down a canopy/tarp that the wind was whipping about{worried it would slam into the sliding glass door, yuck full of spiders and dirty water!!}. Took out the tree as clean as I could and now am cleaning up a whole bunch of needles.

Did I mention my vacuum isn't working?

The Christmas tree. Such a lovely sentiment. But, when you think about it, it brings up a bit to debate about.