Do we have to take the Christmas tree down?

[bigtree]

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[Blue Owl]

1. Bwah!

[DonaldsRump]

2. I would TOTALLY concur

except our tree ain't looking all that good. We have water in the base, along with Xmas tree food, and I've taken to spraying the branches with water once a day. It's still looking a bit dry.

Any thoughts on what to do? I'd like to get a live tree next year that we can take outside (we live in the Bay Area) after the holidays are over and then use it again in the years to come. So if folks have any suggestions for that, I would welcome it too!

[marlakay]

4. You have to get one in a big pot

Live with roots to have over and over.

We get one fresh from Christmas tree farm. A fresh cut will stay that way with water. My tree isn't dry at all. Taking down soon though.

When you buy any tree when you get home cut a few inches from the bottom and immediately put in water. If tree is too dried out before you get home even cutting won't work.

I am from bay area too 😁 up here in Oregon easier to get fresh trees.

[niyad]

8. Get a fake tree, call it your holiday tree, keep it up all year, suitably decorated.

For your cut tree, are you using room temp water?maybe some plant food?

[mopinko]

3. not til the 6th, at any rate.

at least that was the rule in my house as a kid. happened to be my mom's bday.

[Maeve]

6. Twelve days of Christmas!

And our tree traditionally came down on Epiphany or when the kids went back to school...no kids at home so after the Congress (opposite of progress) finally accepts Biden/Harris.

[wnylib]

12. I usually wait until the 6th.

Goes by several names -- 12th day of Christmas, Epiphany, 3 Kings Day.

But I don't put mine up as early as some people. Usually not until a week before Xmas and it's artificial. I gave up on real trees long ago. Much easier to handle an artificial one as I get older.

[pansypoo53219]

5. one year it made it to april. waiting til it was naked.

we used a tall spruce from the front of the house. it was PAINFUL to decorate.

[csziggy]

7. Not unless it is a fire hazard

In my home town in the 1930s the fire chief became concerned at the number of fires started by dried out Christmas trees that people weren't taking down until well after New Year's. He began the annual New Year's Eve Christmas Tree Burn. Now every year over the week between Christmas and New Year's Eve, the city collects all the natural Christmas trees the can and put them up to make one big "tree." Then the firemen set them on fire. It's quite an event, though the "tree' is not as big as it used to be. I can remember when they would put up a big power pole and the "tree" reached all the way to the top. Now it's much shorter.

Here is the 2019 Christmas tree burn:

Bartow has held its annual New Year’s Eve Christmas Tree Burn since 1936, when Nye Jordan organized the first ceremony out of concern that the brittle trees posed a fire hazard in homes. He also said it was bad luck to have a Christmas tree in the home on New Year’s Day.

[yellowdogintexas]

9. our trash pick up guys will pick them up and grind them into mulch

which is used in the public parks and other grounds the city manages.

We have leaf pick up monthly during the fall, so grabbing the live trees is just part of the job

[csziggy]

13. I think my hometown should start doing that

The numbers of trees they are collecting has gotten low and burning them doesn't do anything more than be a spectacle, though I guess it is better than a fireworks show.

When I was growing up, Mom would go around collecting bags of leaves to use for mulch. After our big pecan tree was blown over in Hurricane Donna, we didn't have enough leaves for that, so Mom embarrassed Dad by collecting them from trash piles, LOL. Since the town was known for it's live oaks, she could get leaves not only in the fall but in the spring when the live oaks shed their leaves. She seldom had many weeds in her yard.

[AmyStrange]

10. Send them to me...

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Brrrr... I could sure use the firewood!
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[Throckmorton]

11. Mine is a big green toilet brush with lights.

I guess it could stay up forever.

[Marcuse]

14. I have a scraggly Charlie Brown tree. No problem.