YOU will NOT believe this mess 2day..check it out!
 

Well, we mananged to get the Tree From Hell out of my house this morning....(my Christmas Tree). :rolleyes: NEVER EVER have I EVER expierenced a mess quite like this!!!!! :eek: I started to cry when I finally got it out....WHAT A MESS! Thank God for my Moral Support System!!! :)
There is no one pic better than the other, so I am gonna post them all....So you can expirience the whole thing...cc came home this afternoon, and helped me clean it up...she is a sweetie...check out this mess...BTW: My lights are STILL on my house...might try to jerk those down on Friday. Maybe. :rolleyes:
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uggh
 

Geeez.......:rolleyes:

arial shot from top of stairs...
 

Sad thing about it, i'll prolly do the same damn thing next year! I LOVE a real tree!!! :rolleyes:

down the staircase..
 

The pine needles covered up 4 stairs up and got in EVERYTHING! Including my SHORTS AND TOP! :eek:

last shot.
 

Heres cc helping me clean the mess...can you tell where I had the rug at???? :rolleyes:

rofl....i thought we taught you to play outside already..sheesh....

the vaccuum must still be hiccupping...lol

Awwww I love that first picture you posted here,the dog in the kitchen has the look like,"wow ,what a mess we have here"

*LMAO*

Real trees are still the way to go,from choosing your own tree chopping it down then bringing it home to decorate :)

Those xmas trees dont like the warm weather!!! Our trees dont shed like that after the new year!! Your going to love when you think you got all the needles and then you step on one late at night cause some were embedded into the carpet! HAHAHA! Only you can have the shcit luck!

Sorry, you are too damn funny!
:p

Guess that expains...
 

Ya, Guess that explains the PineNeedles in Racies 'sample' from her vet visit today! :( Didn't water the tree the last 2 weeks...guess it was just a WEE BIT of a fire hazard....But, it was TOO damn big to bag! :rolleyes: Now i just gotta figure out how to get the city to pick it up?????? :confused:
TNT :rolleyes:

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OMG .... thats exactally what i was thinking looking at those pix .... if that tree was dropping needles that badly, it must have been bone dry !!! Thats like having an open tub full of napalm sitting in your living room ! :eek: You're lucky your biggest problem was just some needles to clean up ! lol
srv1 is right about stepping on the errant needle too ! hurts like he** , but hes wrong about you being the only one who has that shcit luck .... if you look up shcit luck in the dictionary, you'll find my picture :(

NEEDLES FROM HELL!
 

LOL! YA! I started out doing all this barefooted...it only lasted about an hour and a half, after picking needles out of my feet. Those suckers DONT GIVE when they go thru skin...didn't seem to bother the dogs though, which surprised me. Specially Racie, she kept trying to eat them! yummy! :confused:

heh, I was going to ask if you had ever even watered that tree but you already answered that.

Those trees take a lot of water to keep them happy and not dropping needles on everything.


I had a bad experience this year with my tree too. The tree I picked was absolutely infested with ANTS. Thousands of the little buggers were on there, and I didn't know it until a couple of days after I had the tree in the apartment. I had bought a cinnamon bun and put it down near the tree. I turned around to go to the kitchen to get a drink and when I came back they were ALL over the bun, the box, the bad and had a trail already started back to the tree. Sigh. I hope I got rid of them all because I can't stand them... at least I keep a relatively clean apartment and don't have to worry about them getting in to everything.

ugh, if I could only find a decent looking artificial tree for a good price I would consider buying one.




XR1stang

geez, were there any needles left on the tree when you finally got it outside?

And that, my friends, is why I'm all about the falsies!!;)

Caymon

Next year wrap the tree in Hefty extra great big huge trash bags then haul it out. Or you could lay down a big drop cloth, lay the tree on it, and drag it out that way. I went though this once. Getting pine needles out of shag carpet is a major PITA!!!

Actually, 2fastlx is right on....

What we do in our family is put a "special" bag underneath the treeskirt (it has a hole in the bottom to allow access to the stand and watering, and is 8 feet tall fully extended). All you do is take the skirt off, lift the bag up and lie it on it's side, tie the top and bottom off, and vioala! Mess-free removal! Can't remember where we get them. I think my dad has a stash of them.

The key is being able to cover the tree before removing it. That will eliminate most of your mess. You want some needles, though. Such a nice smell... :)

That or get an artifical (hey! some of them are quite nice nowdays) ;)

my mom had a 12 foot tree this year in her entryway... if you catch it early enough in the season you can find the larger bags... hers said for 15 foot tree this year... but make sure you put it on before you set the tree up... and leave it around the base... man looks like you had quite a mess to clean up there... i don't envy you at all... that's why i'll stick with my 6 foot boxed tree :p