Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for January 02, 2010
January 01, 2010
January 03, 2010
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Katy: It always makes me sad when we take down the Christmas tree. Clayton: Me too. Why is it that Christmas is the only holiday that uses a tree? Katy: Right. There's no candy tree for Halloween. Clayton: And no egg tree for Easter. Adam: No tree tree for Arbor Day. Laura: Umm, actually. Honey, there are lots of trees for Arbor Day. Adam: Boy, oh boy. The sanitation dudes must hate the week those all get thrown out.
Flintstoned almost 15 years ago
The 4th of July burning bush.
Edcole1961 almost 15 years ago
There’s no point in burning him now. He’s out of office.
The Duke 1 almost 15 years ago
Recycle your tree with a local Boy Scout Troop or other organization trying to raise funds!!
Dry and Dusty Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Or put it out for the birds in winter!
comYics almost 15 years ago
It’d be nature throwing them out, those ”sanitation dudes”, arent that worried about it.
Charles Brobst Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Christmas trees get landfilled. Next years crop is busy sucking carbon out of the atmosphere, which will be buried in turn. It’s very green.
COWBOY7 almost 15 years ago
Adam sure missed the Arbor Day idea from Laura. Duh!
alondra almost 15 years ago
I’ve had this idea for a while now. It wouldn’t work because of dust and fire hazard but what if you could decorate your tree for each holiday? Hearts and stuff for Valentines day, eggs, and bunnies, crosses etc for Easter, red, white and blue stuff for the fourth of July, etc. For birthdays you can put birthday stuff. It would be so pretty to look at but like I said, it would get very dusty and become a fire hazard.
keltii almost 15 years ago
actually our city has a ‘green” week,, they sent around a truck that picks up the old christmas trees,, they take them to an ecology garden that chips the trees for mulch and fertilizers for the coming spring and people can go and get free bags of it for their gardens.
1148559 almost 15 years ago
Yes, if you wanted to have a tree to decorate year round, a live tree would work best.
yyyguy almost 15 years ago
there would be difficulties in keeping a live tree indoors for any length of time. not insurmountable, but requiring adjustments to keep said tree from dying. it would need periods of direct sunlight for one thing, and care to make sure it doesn’t outgrow the pot it’s in for another. (this need of some plants for being in the sun and weather to remain alive is what caused the invention of astro turf.)
yyyguy almost 15 years ago
@somebodyshort thanks for the Christmas wish. hope yours was good, too.
krisl73 almost 15 years ago
A fake tree might work well for a year-round tree. Or maybe it would be better to have a life plant that’s more of a bush size so that it won’t get too big for the pot.
In the United States, I’m not sure we have any rules about when to take the Christmas tree down, just sometime after Christmas.