My recent experience with trying to dispose of our Christmas tree could be best described as a comic strip.
Panel #1 Christmas tree is put out on the street. Garbage men come (sanitation workers now?) and leave it.
Panel #2 Christmas tree is put in garbage can, right side up. Garbage men come, take it out and throw it into our bushes.
Panel #3 Christmas tree is put, upside down this time, into garbage can. Garbage men take it out, and toss it into the bushes again.
Panel #4 Husband clips all the branches off the tree, puts them in the garbage can, saves the trunk for fire wood. They finally take it.
I imagined what the garbage men must have thought at this progression of events. We did get the message though- they don't haul away Christmas trees until they are dismembered. So, even though I posted a gleesganders awhile back about ways to recycle your Christmas tree, we were trying to take the easy way out, until forced to do otherwise. Now, we have a nice trunk to use as firewood for our next cold snap (which is supposed to be tonight). The nice piney smell will remind us of our Christmas tree all over again, now sacrificed to good use. O Tannenbaum!
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