What did you do with your Christmas Tree?

What is the liquid Namsnanny? Is it just white vinegar? I have a large fir tree in the garden and could make some. How long will you leave it before its ready and will you strain it?
Hope you are feeling better soon.

My Christmas tree was bought for £30, a lot of money over 40 years ago, and until this year it’s lived in the loft.
This year it’s in a cupboard because next year would be too risky to get it down .
It still looks as good as new and has served us well,

Well done namsnanny and , hope you get better soon. .

Our council collects real trees and they are shredded and used as compost in our parks.

Mine's in a pot outside but it needs re-potting.

Namsnanny Sending you best wishes for a good recovery and 🎄

It's back in it's box in the cupboard on the landing, waiting to be unpacked again next Christmas.

My son chopped it up, it’s in the garden waste bin ready for collection in March when they start again. Garden waste is recycled as compost.

Folded them and put them back in the loft

Thank you for the best wishes Callistemon21, Silverlining48, rubysong much appreciated :-)

I'll leave it to 'brew' for a few weeks, then dilute before use.

It's folded up and out back in its box until next year.
Best wishes namsnanny

Put it back in its box in the cupboard

Packed it up ready for next year. We got it new this year because we had had our other one since about 1980 ,time for a change. This one has the lights inbuilt, much easier. It is 7 foot tall which suits our house, our other one was taller.

Put it back in its box then up into its designated space in the loft where it will rest until December comes around again. There’s a certain security knowing it’s there and it’s lights will shine again.

The real one went to the tip for compostin and recycling as such.

The other one was carefully packed back into its box and put back in the glory hole.

Monica the place where you have stored your artificial tree 🌲 now has a different meaning 😳 as I was recently informed by a young relative.

Our artificial tree didn’t make it out of the box this year, so it is still in the loft awaiting the arrival of the other bits and bobs that we decorated the house with.

We paid a local charity to take ours and shred it.

We kept ours up until last weekend, when we had a belated family get-together.
It's currently standing in the conservatory, waiting to go into its storage bag and up in the loft.

We cut ours up in the sitting room - dh wielding the loppers, me with the big garden waste bag.

That’s because even if it had hardly shed a needle before, because we had kept it well watered, it would manage to shed masses while being dragged to and out of the front door.
Dh then takes it all to the green waste bin at the tip.

We always have a real tree.
This year it was shredded by the RNLI for a donation.

Sawn up and burnt on the fire.

I usually make my own cleaning agents, but it's too late to try *Namsnanny"'s recipe now. Would like to hear more about it though.

In our town here in Germany the junior fire brigade come and fetch the trees on a Saturday in early Jan. There are similar projects in most towns all over the country.

That's such a lovely idea Namsnanny, the little one I bought has now been planted in the garden . A ready made supply of needles! Hope you are soon feeling better

Callistemon21

Mine's in a pot outside but it needs re-potting.

Ours too, Callistemon. I was surprised that it hadn’t grown since 2022, but I’m guessing its poor roots are squashed. Though DS once grew a tree from a packet of Christmas tree seeds in his stocking and it ended up dwarfing the house, so we need to be a bit careful.

We have similar collections all over the UK, JackyB. DH and his friend spent a couple of days collecting trees in aid of a local hospice, and they kept bumping into “rivals” from the Scouts and other charities. There could be a sitcom in it - Tree Wars?