We had one live tree growing up that is when we learned that my brother was highly allergic to cedar. After that artificial trees. So much easier to deal with and can be used year after year.
While it might be fun to watch that tree burn, where I live, we recycle those trees. It is turned into mulch, or put into the compost pile. Then we get to pick up that mulch or compost to use in out gardens and flower beds.
We burn our tree in our fireplace and have done so every year for the past 30 years. Strip the ornaments off New Years Day, cut off the limbs, chuck them in, enjoy the whoosh. Never had a chimney fire. The trunk is saved and used as the yule log to start the fire the following Christmas.
Unless you have bad electrical wiring, or use ancient tree lights with frayed or otherwise damaged cords, or put your tree near a fireplace you’re using, there should be very little fire risk from a real Christmas tree. Especially since these days, the LED lights draw little power and generate very little heat, at least not with small Christmas decorative LED’s. I assume most people have switched over to LED’s by now— they’re pretty cheap now, pay for themselves quickly with power savings, are brighter, and last longer than the old filament bulbs.
alasko over 6 years ago
Oh, burn, you old sap!
Arianne over 6 years ago
I am extremely grateful to our guardian angels!
David Huie Green LosersBlameOthers&It'sYOURfault over 6 years ago
When our son went into a coma with West Nile Virus, I told Patsy, “We never expected to have him this long.”
Yet we still do.
Dani Rice over 6 years ago
We did that. Once.
cabalonrye over 6 years ago
The joy of a quick course of physics about heat, inflammable things, and HIGHLY inflammable things.
paul GROSS Premium Member over 6 years ago
Nothing like a chimney fire to get the blood flowing
Clotty Peristalt over 6 years ago
You’re getting rid of the tree already? It’s not even New Year’s yet!
Dixie Lee over 6 years ago
We had one live tree growing up that is when we learned that my brother was highly allergic to cedar. After that artificial trees. So much easier to deal with and can be used year after year.
Tyge Premium Member over 6 years ago
Build a burn pit outside. All the fun, especially at night, when there’s no wind! A great lesson for kids about fire safety around the tree.
sfreader1 over 6 years ago
While it might be fun to watch that tree burn, where I live, we recycle those trees. It is turned into mulch, or put into the compost pile. Then we get to pick up that mulch or compost to use in out gardens and flower beds.
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 6 years ago
It’s a miracle i survived my 30s!
rick92040 over 6 years ago
Yep. Time to get rid of the decomposing tree corpse you’ve decorated for Christmas.
Maureen Heedles Premium Member over 6 years ago
We burn our tree in our fireplace and have done so every year for the past 30 years. Strip the ornaments off New Years Day, cut off the limbs, chuck them in, enjoy the whoosh. Never had a chimney fire. The trunk is saved and used as the yule log to start the fire the following Christmas.
JAE in MN over 3 years ago
Unless you have bad electrical wiring, or use ancient tree lights with frayed or otherwise damaged cords, or put your tree near a fireplace you’re using, there should be very little fire risk from a real Christmas tree. Especially since these days, the LED lights draw little power and generate very little heat, at least not with small Christmas decorative LED’s. I assume most people have switched over to LED’s by now— they’re pretty cheap now, pay for themselves quickly with power savings, are brighter, and last longer than the old filament bulbs.