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vulgarweed ([personal profile] vulgarweed) wrote2009-06-16 12:01 am

Housecleaning: not my friend.

So I decided things were kind of out of hand and went on a rearranging binge. It was going pretty well...until I tried to do something with the Closet of Doom. Then my precariously-balanced super-cheap super-fake Yule-tree-in-a-box fell out and hit me in the face.

I have a black eye. A real one. A shiner.

I can make it not-too-noticeable with makeup, but before that it is really quite shocking.

It looks like the sort of thing that no one will believe is entirely innocent.

[identity profile] vulgarweed.livejournal.com 2009-06-17 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
I think having a fake tree that can be reused over many years is better than having a real one cut down, just to have pretty lights put on its dead corpse for a few weeks and then be tossed in the trash.

(My parents have a lovely conifer grove that's built on 25 years' worth of Christmas trees dug up at the roots and then planted after the holiday season was over. There are lots of bird nests and delicious morel mushrooms there in the spring. It's a gorgeous place to read and nap and chill on a summer afternoon - but they have land and I don't!)

[identity profile] celandineb.livejournal.com 2009-06-17 01:58 pm (UTC)(link)
*thoughtful* What would be good is if it were easy to first buy a live tree, and then be able to donate it to the local parks commission for planting. It would save the parks $$ and be good for the environment, too.

[I consume enough paper (just printing out lecture notes, fic drafts, etc. is a surprising amount over a year) that I don't figure one smallish tree every other year or so adds that much to my environmental guilt, and I really dislike fake trees.]