Well, RC, it might be bad luck but we have a big woodstove in our basement and the tree was upstairs. I had to water it daily, it was sucking so much liquid up. The needles were getting painfully sharp (Gundark puts on another band-aid) and piling up on the newly cleaned hardwood floor. That bad boy had to go ! 🙂
Okay, okay, I will, I will. Sometimes I feel like we're married Gundy-dear. 😂
Well, there's several reasons for it actually. I think they alwasy stand in the way, they have no function really, other than a very small tree would have (we have a very small tree, about 10 inches high, my wife wants one *sigh*), but it's like you seem to need something to make your house look cosy. Do it all year around, I'd say.
Artificial trees are dumb. If you want one, get a real one and stop fooling yourself. But the real ones lose their needles and always give a mess. I think what finally did it for me was when I was in college I used to clean in the evenings to earn some extra money. After Christmas I had to clean up the mess where the tree had been: a huge pile of needles, all stuck in the carpet. I think it took me about an hour to get most of it out. Most of it, I think there are still needles in there now, and this was 8 years ago.
There, that's it. Let the flaming begin...
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