Goodbye Christmas Tree - Hello New Year

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If you're trying to figure out how to get rid of a Christmas tree without getting pine needles everywhere I'm here to save the day. Now that Christmas has passed, I bet you just can't wait to get that dried up looking, ready to catch fire, on it's last life thing out of your house - yes, your Christmas tree.

The joy that your beloved Christmas tree has brought to you and yours has now passed, along with the passing of the holiday. You nursed this thing all month long, but now this thing is "ready to go." "Ready to go, or I'm ready to go" always makes me think of Wanda from In Living Color. (<-- funny phrase in 3...2...1 @ 5:52). Ahh, good times.

So back to the tree... And what's funny is that regardless of whether or not your tree is real or fake, you'll still have a loss of pine needles. Yes, I know...mind-blowing. I always thought that with a fake tree I wouldn't have to deal with pine needles, but, nope, pine needles were everywhere and I was constantly vacuuming. It was baffling to me...

I've always been a real tree kind of girl, but there have been a few years where we used a fake tree or two. Whenever it was time to get rid of the real tree I'd say I was going to get a fake tree the next year as I removed pine needles from my house. But...same problem. So if that's your reason for getting a fake tree, don't bother.

Often times, getting rid of the Christmas tree also brings a feeling of dread. It's much more exciting to get the tree and decorate it than it is to actually take it down, along with all of your other household decorations. But the New Year is just around the corner and with the New Year comes thoughts of starting new and thoughts of spring. Yes, spring.

Even though spring is about three months away many of us begin anticipating the arrival of spring when it's time to take the tree down. This thought process rejuvenates us, gets the blood flowing, and gets us moving. Personally, I find myself in great anticipation of spring at the arrival of winter, but hey, that's just me. 😂

Remove a Christmas Tree without Getting Pine Needles Everywhere with These Tricks

When removing your Christmas tree, you have a few options.

Drag It Out As Is: Dragging the tree out "as is" will more than likely result in dried up pine needles flying everywhere in places that you can't even begin to imagine. And that you will more than likely find in strange places -- regardless of how well you have cleaned up -- in the spring.
A Disposable Christmas Tree Bag: The disposable Christmas tree bag is an ingenious invention that allows you to literally bag up your entire tree in your Christmas tree bag to remove from your home avoiding the flinging of pine needles everywhere.
A Large Sheet: Depending upon how large your tree is, you very well might find yourself able to remove the tree by wrapping it in a sheet, starting from the trunk. Wrap the sheet good and tight around the tree and then carefully drag the tree from your home.

Each method may result in the loss of pine needles, but not nearly as many as method #1, so have your vacuum cleaners and brooms ready! We usually remove our tree right after New Year. But regardless of when you actually remove your tree, good luck! Cheers to as few pine needles as possible as you get ready to ring in the New Year and...think spring!