Fire hazard
aftermath of a $10 Christmas tree
Yes, our pseudo partial tree skirt was a fleece blanket that zips into a sleeping bag. Why do you ask?
posted by Valarie @ 8:40 PM
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Yes, our pseudo partial tree skirt was a fleece blanket that zips into a sleeping bag. Why do you ask?
just how uneventful my life is, spelled out in black and white. and some pink.
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12 Comments:
Oh that's scary I still need to take ours down...my hubby won this year and it stayed up until New Years. Maybe he can win the prize of vacuuming up all the needles! Won't that be fun?
LOLOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLOL
Ours barely made it through til Christmas when we realized it wasn't taking in any water after the first day we had it up.
The week before Christmas we weren't putting the lights on incase it lit up like a roman candle.
Perhaps Sabra and I should have had the vacuum suck-off at your place.
Ouch. Thats quite a mess!
Wow. I forgot about that. We bought a fake one this year. We're taking ours down next week, probably.
Love the tree skirt. ;) You know how everything Christmas is all 50-75% off right now? Well...
We ended up putting up our 2nd tree this year. The first one looked exactly like that. It would not take water even the first night.
Hint to the man of the house. Buy a blue tarp from Menards or Walmart, lay it in front of tree, tip tree over onto it, wrap it up & drag it out. Saves me from buying another vacuum. Love Ya
Yikes! Reason #249 we bought a fake one a few years ago. (lights included) Also, where do you find a tree for $10?! We were spending like $60 and that was 5 years ago. *sigh* Also, our tree skirt? An evergreen round silk tablecloth that I cut a slit in. Classy.
LOL!!! That tree was having some issues!
That is too good...
Holy Crap! Don't burn up your new vacuum!
It was $10 at the grocery story. They were an additional 50% off the first week of December. It had been wrapped up and so we had to wait a day to decorate it so the branches could warm up and relax. I had to vacuum before we could even start decorating. Clearly, they were half off because there had been sitting there ahwile.
Matt cut off the bottom few inches, so it took up water for the first two weeks. We added fire retardant to the water the first few times, but I think there's a point where dryness wins out. Luckily, the big bulbed lights from the 70's that would get too hot to touch are no longer available.
I swept it into piles and scooped them up before we vacuumed. No point filling a whole bag when most of it is just sitting on top of the carpet.
Woah.
Yes, that's one more resaon to like my fake tree (even if I miss the smell of a real one).
Ours does shed a little, about 1/8 cup of needles.
$10 baby, 10 bucks.
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