Christmas Tree disposal - game changer!

[GehenBier]

Somewhere, somewhen on MN I read a top tip about getting rid of a real Christmas tree. Today was the day and I convinced DH and DC that this top tip was worth trying. I reassured them it was neither from Viz nor from Take a Break and once we decided it was a "life hack" we were on. I don't remember who I should credit with this but listen up: cover the tree with a double duvet cover before removing from stand, and shroud said tree until place of disposal. Minimum vacuuming and car is reasonably needle free (given that some already were shed on the way in pre Christmas). Absolute revelation!

Our local hospice take ours for a donation.. they get recycled for animal food etc.

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OP, I used to use a redundant duvet cover to collect my tree for several years (before local delivery became a thing). I recall one year the garden centre staff finding it utterly hilarious when I asked them to just slip the duvet cover over the netted tree. Then, when they were helping me load it, and noting the lack of catching on the various sticky-out bits inside the car, saying 'Actually, that's a really good idea'. I am delighted, all these years later, to find a kindred spirit!

Not wishing to piss on your alfalfa @AlpacinoAlpaca but you have not taken into account those homeowners who are unable to temporary extend their homes due to cost, planning, or other issues. I have an alternative suggestion for those in this category.

Carefully move your tree adjacent to the fireplace before removing the stand. Tie a long sturdy rope to the tree base and a firework to the other end. Place the firework into the base of the fireplace, with it pointing straight up the chimney. Make sure there is enough rope to allow the firework to clear the height of your house at least two times, then stand back and light it.

After the firework has gone off, exited your chimney stack and exploded in the vicinity of your garden, locate the end of the rope and tie it to the towing point on the rear of your car. Now carefully drive the car forward until the Christmas tree appears out of the top of the chimney. Drive forward until the tree has cleared the chimney altogether then let it roll down your roof onto your front lawn. From here you can burn it on the bonfire tomorrow when your neighbour has done their washing, leave it out for the local zoo or take it to a local layby around 11pm and leave it there.

Not only have you left a nice bed of aromatic spruce needles in your fireplace, but you have also saved £90 by not having to have your chimney cleaned each year.

We throw out our Christmas tree from our window Had to be out the side window this year as we've had the bay window double glazed and the big window no longer opens.

It's a Nordmann fir that we buy really fresh (literally only chopped down a day or two before) so it drops very few needles anyway.

I think I'm going to use my drugget kept in the car boot. Never thought of using duvet cover/drugget/bin liners before, doh! I usually drag the tree through the house, shedding as she goes, and put it in the car ON said drugget

Luckily our council takes away trees 6 foot or less on the first 2 bin days of the year. If you chop taller trees into 2 then they will take that too.

What we’ve done for years now, is that dh chops it up with his pruning choppers (in the sitting room), I stand there with a big black bin liner and put all the bits in.

Dh then takes it all to the green waste part of the tip.
It avoids having to manhandle a fair-sized bushy tree out of the front door for council collection, and have it shed masses of needles en route - even though it had hardly shed before, because it had been kept well watered.

Did the same yesterday - it took very little time.

We burn the trunk of ours the following Christmas Eve.

Been doing the duvet/sheet hack for years it’s so good! I think I remember my friends mum doing it when I was a teen and remembered it. The needles just brush off the cover. You still get a few drops but nothing like if you just carry it out

Hooray for a fellow window thrower! 🙌🏻

Ours can go in the green waste if sufficiently chopped up, so we put down a big old curtain as a dust sheet, and chop it in situ into manageable sizes, then pick up the corners of the curtain and take it straight out through the patio doors and pour it into the bin. You get barely any mess this way.

Just got to say, wheelie bin sacks don't work. It's a mess!