(Our Tannenbaum)
Here’s a sight you don’t want to see on the third day of Christmas: a bare tree dumped on the curb, stripped of its holiday lights and ornaments, waiting for the city recycling truck to pick it up and chop it into mulch.
Oh, the horror!
It’s like seeing Santa standing naked on the side of the road.
My eyes! My poor eyes!
It’s the third day of Christmas, people. Where’s your holiday spirit?
Knowing that someone undressed that tree’s lovely branches and prepared it for disposal within hours of Santa’s visit is utterly heartbreaking.
It’s especially gut-wrenching to me since our tree will be up long after we usher in 2012.
We spent 50 bucks on our Christmas tree.
Fifty big ones.
There’s no way I’d toss out that bad boy less than 48 hours after Christmas.
In fact, according to my math skills, we need to keep that Tannenbaum up until at least early March in order to get a proper return on our investment.
A dollar a day… sounds fair to me.
Seriously, who spends hours shopping for the perfect tree, nearly kills him or herself getting the thing to stand straight in the house, meticulously decorates it with yards and yards, and yards of lights and ornaments, only to kick it to the curb shortly after Santa closes his lap for the season and heads back to the North Pole?
I realize that Christmas trees take up valuable real estate in one’s home, but most of us stick our pines in the corner. Is it really a big deal to sacrifice such a small portion of a room for less than a month given all a dazzling Christmas tree provides in return?
Taking down a tree before New Year’s is about as Grinch-y or Scrooge-ish as you can get.
My kid has a two-foot tall electric blue Charlie Brown tree sitting in her bedroom covered with drooping lights and scrunched up tinsel. If there were ever a tree that should be tossed on the side of the road (like two weeks ago), it’s that eyesore, but after days and days spent wrapping, baking, hosting, cleaning, and decorating, I have absolutely no desire to take down a single Christmas decoration.
I’m beat.
It can stay up until Easter for all I care.
When do you take down your Christmas tree?