Where Decatur's Christmas Trees Go To Die
Decatur Metro | January 5, 2009
Andisheh provides us with this slightly disturbing pic of a pile of soon-to-be recycled Decatur Christmas trees. Being multi-talented, he also provided the post title.
We didn’t get ours down in time to make Decatur’s recycling deadline. Guess we’ll have to drop it off at Home Depot?
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I’ve always thought of them trading Christmas morning stories with each other.
How peculiar that the deadline for recycling is prior to the actual end of Christmas (today). I guess that is because Agnes Scott is back in session?
We always know when it’s time for tree recycling because we have a parade of station wagons, SUVs, and family sedans with dead trees strapped to their roofs making three-point turns on our dead-end street.
Why doesn’t our premium trash service recycle the trees? We brought our tree over to agnes but I don’t get to keep the mulch from our tree?
The trees left at curbside are eventually mulched. DeKalb County has free mulch for the taking at the Memorial Drive service center (old Home Depot).
Why did they end the recycling so early? Most people haven’t even taken their trees down yet!
The Christmas season is over after New Years Day. If your tree is still up on the Jan. 6th I hope your fire insurance is up to date
We also take our tree down later than most (it’s still taking water, for Pete’s sake!), so we usually end up breaking it down ourselves. I trim off the limbs and set them out in a yard waste bag for composting. The trunk then gets cut into Yule logs to be burned next year in my parents’ wood-burning fireplace.
Oh, and the actual OFFICIAL end to Christmas is not New Year’s, but today. January 6th is the 12th (and final) day of Christmas, also known as the “Epiphany,” the day the wise men arrived in Bethlehem.
It also happens to be my wife’s birthday. You think YOUR Christmas shopping is tough!
Rus, you heretic! :^)
I work in retail advertising so my Christmas starts in July. You had better bet that I’m ready for the end of MY Christmas season January 2nd! I think it’s funny how some people like to proclaim the “official” beginning and end of the holiday based on their own secular beliefs (as if that as if that somehow makes it applicable to everyone else).
But if you must drag religion into it… the REAL end of the Christmas season is Candlemas on February 2nd. Lets see how crispy the tree is by then!
As an old retailer, I understand Russ’ feelings.
Yet, I think it is equally as funny that retailers proclaim when the beginning of Christmas season occurs….seemingly the day after Halloween, according to their own merchandising beliefs.
Not just retailers. My mother-in-law gets her (artificial) tree up the week after Halloween, which made my jaw drop the first time I saw it. TOO SOON. And yet she still makes fun of us for keeping our tree through January.