Christmas Cleanup

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hawaiianhawk

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Anybody else chop up their old Christmas trees?





My BK10 enjoyed his first meal of the new year. Look how smug he looks.



Tossed the branches, gonna keep the trunk and let it dry out later to burn in our fire pit.
 
I pop mine out of the slots, place the boughs in the box and store until next year...amazing how long it's lasting...:p
 
I fold mine up and put it in big plastic coffins and store it in the warehouse. :D This one is only 3 years old. The previous one lasted 22 years. The only reason I replaced it was that it was competing with the dogs on shedding.
 
We did a lot of cleaning up this year before Christmas and decided to chuck our old artificial tree and get a real one this year. It turned out very nice and I'm sure it'll burn well later on. :)
 
hawaiianhawk said:
We did a lot of cleaning up this year before Christmas and decided to chuck our old artificial tree and get a real one this year. It turned out very nice and I'm sure it'll burn well later on. :)
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We used to do real trees every year. Sometimes my dad would break down and buy a fir, but usually we went out and cut one from a pasture, what everyone down here calls "cedar trees" but are really "Ashe junipers". Never real pretty, but the price was right and they needed to be cleaned up out of the pasture any way. We shifted to artificials the year after we had 4 houses burn in the neighborhood due to trees catching on fire. As our house had a fire the year before due to faulty wiring, my dad was paranoid about house fires. So no more real trees. And the cost per year makes it a lot cheaper in the long run.

I can see the benefit/need for a throw away if you live in a small house or apartment, though. But since I have a shop (30x30), garage (24x30), garage apartment (16x20 two story), equipment shed (35x30), old laying hen house (30x40), 2 barns (30x30 double-decker and 16x50), a tool shed (40x40), a warehouse (16x32) and 110+ y.o. 4000 sqf farm house to store stuff in, a tree in 2 coffins is chicken feed, especially since they stack.
 
Where do you even get those things in Hawaii? I usually throw mine in the woods/compost pile....outside, chopping a tree? It's 15° right now with 100% chance of blizzard tonight and tomorrow. I'll chop up my tree....when Spring gets here in three months.
 
zzyzzogeton said:
We used to do real trees every year. Sometimes my dad would break down and buy a fir, but usually we went out and cut one from a pasture, what everyone down here calls "cedar trees" but are really "Ashe junipers". Never real pretty, but the price was right and they needed to be cleaned up out of the pasture any way. We shifted to artificials the year after we had 4 houses burn in the neighborhood due to trees catching on fire. As our house had a fire the year before due to faulty wiring, my dad was paranoid about house fires. So no more real trees. And the cost per year makes it a lot cheaper in the long run.

I can see the benefit/need for a throw away if you live in a small house or apartment, though. But since I have a shop (30x30), garage (24x30), garage apartment (16x20 two story), equipment shed (35x30), old laying hen house (30x40), 2 barns (30x30 double-decker and 16x50), a tool shed (40x40), a warehouse (16x32) and 110+ y.o. 4000 sqf farm house to store stuff in, a tree in 2 coffins is chicken feed, especially since they stack.
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We don't have all that much space to spare, and I'll definitely be careful burning it. We'd gotten quite a few years out of that artificial tree before we dropped it at the Goodwill center.

granitestateofmind said:
Where do you even get those things in Hawaii? I usually throw mine in the woods/compost pile....outside, chopping a tree? It's 15° right now with 100% chance of blizzard tonight and tomorrow. I'll chop up my tree....when Spring gets here in three months.
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No joke, they ship 'em in every year. Usually Wal-Marts and other big stores will have tents set up in the parking lots for folks to pick trees, although there was a news story about a family who brings them in every year at a big mall downtown having to move shop because of construction. They were worried that if they moved nobody would know where to find them and they'd lose out on sales. Sometimes critters like bats and frogs come in with the containers and that starts a little bit of a panic because of what alien creatures have done to the island's native ecosystems, but my family's never had anything like that happen.
 
Every year my wife arrnages for the Boy Scouts to come haul away the tree as part of their recycling program(s). No fun, because I totally wanted to hack mine up with the 9.
 
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