Stapling bread onto trees.

Isn’t bread a staple food? ?

It just seems to be one of those ridiculous things that people do who have too much time on their hands:
www.esquireme.com/content/36907-why-is-the-internet-stapling-slices-of-bread-to-trees-an-investigation

What nonsense and dangerous nonsense at that. Bread is bad for young birds.

Rats must love it!

Bad for the trees, bad for the birds, probably bad for any other unwitting creature not to mention ugly.

Theres numpty`s all over the world.

Sounds like an experiment - think of the most idiotic thing, post it on social media and see how many people will do it too!

??oldwoman70

Oldwoman70 sounds likely!???

How can you staple onto a tree ?

I wonder if it’s the same folk who hang plastic bags of dog poo on trees

Let's hope this doesn't start a craze for hanging other things on trees. It will do no-one any good.

But what sort of stapler goes through wood ? Do you walk round with a commercial stapler in your handbag .....how ridiculous

Esspee, really cheered me up, ta.

I must have too much time on my hands today. I’ve just googled and this has been an ongoing nonsense for a few years.

There are online communities ( one of the them aptly named Sad and Useless) who share photos of bread they’ve stapled to trees. They even take the time to toast some of it ?

Grannynannywanny do they give any reason for doing it?

I only came across it today as some dog owners found their pets’ paws damaged by bits of metal ie staples, presumably fallen off the trees.

No reason mentioned Mollygo. It seems to be yet another daft fad that wouldn’t exist if there was no social media where participants can post/like/brag after doing it.

It’s wassailing, an ancient Druid custom to bless the trees and encourage next year’s harvest

In my area people put their dog's poo into bags and hang that on trees. Yuck!

If it's waissailing, there would be no staples in those days. Dangerous to animals, birds and humans. Last year our local woods became fairy door city. Every tree was basically vandalised with people nailing or screwing wooden pictures some covered in glitter and the further up the tree the bigger the picture. I did measure some,8" x 10". Utter madness.

Better than what was happening here, someone during the night was going around cutting perfectly good trees down, done over several nights, think the police have caught him now though

LynneH

It’s wassailing, an ancient Druid custom to bless the trees and encourage next year’s harvest

I thought that wassailing was singing.

Perhaps they could try this instead: www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=309153364143892&set=a.301107071615188