My parents are getting divorced and are in the process of moving into separate flats, and they don't want their old Xmas tree. They bought it for my 2nd Xmas in 1987 and it's a brilliant, high quality 6ft tree. They brought it up today after digging it out of the attic, so I could check it, as they haven't used it since I moved out in 2006. (I've had most of the special decorations since then)
I know I am being really lame, as it's just a tree, but it was the only thing I loved about Xmas, in an otherwise shit childhood where Xmas was pointless, miserable and toxic. I was allowed to build (it's a bit like a 3D jigsaw puzzle!) and decorate it every year as my parents hated doing it. It was mine and the one part of the season that nobody could ruin. When I was decorating it, I could pretend for a couple of hours that I was having a lovely happy time like families on TV do.
I was so excited to be getting it this year, as we've never been able to afford a decent tree since moving out... but we built it and there's loads missing, it's unusable :(
Mum is going to have a look to double check if there's any more, though it's very unlikely as they've virtually finished clearing out now. And she has very kindly offered to buy us a new tree as our Xmas present, which will be great as we can get a really good one that might last the next 20+ years. I KNOW I am being silly, and there are much bigger things to be upset about. Still, I will be sad to be taking it to the tip.