the vynsane asylum

so i was going out for a walk in my neighborhood tonight and i saw people leaving their christmas trees on the sidewalk for the garbage man to come pick up. i came across about 4 perfectly good christmas trees in total while on my walk.

today is december 29th, just 4 days after Christmas. and assholes are already throwing out their perfectly good and still very much alive trees.

i'm no tree-hugging hippie, but i cannot tolerate that level of impracticality.

why even bother getting a tree if you're only gonna keep it for 2 weeks? why go through all the effort of finding one, bringing it home, decorating it, and then taking off the decorations only to drag it all the way back outside to throw it away?

like, not only are you a wasteful and worthless human being, you are also incredibly dumb. because you just wasted time, effort, and money. the level of inefficiency that you have communicated to me by leaving your lively tree on the sidewalk is abysmal.

i think i'll just go around my neighborhood and rob whosever house i see a christmas tree laying in front of. i'll rob their house even though i don't really need to. but that's the spirit of the season, isn't it? doing things that we don't even need to do and getting things that we don't really need.

it was dark so i really didn't get a good look at the trees, but i wouldn't be surprised if some of the trees still had ornaments and shit on them. i wouldn't be surprised if people just started throwing out their fully-decorated trees cause it was just too much work taking off the decorations. it's okay, they can just buy a new one next year and do the same thing.

it's a terrible waste of energy and money.

i have never had a real christmas tree in my entire life. not once. and my parents aren't tree hugging hippies, they're just your typical lazy Americans.

we have a fake plastic tree in a box in the garage that we take out, set up, and put back every year. except, for like the past couple years, we haven't set it up cause 1) there's no room anywhere in my house to set it up cause we got this piano, and 2) because we're lazy and it's just a pain in the ass.

but it's like dude, global warming is real. maybe i am a tree-hugging hippie. whatever, i don't give a fuck. but my point is, buy a fake tree and use it every year. it will save you money, it will save you time so you won't have to go out and go shopping for a tree, and it will save the environment cause you won't have to drive around wasting gas and hauling a heavy tree on your car. and not to forget, it will help prevent car accidents. because you won't be contributing to the massive tree branches that fall off of on the street while you're driving it around. it's a win win for everybody if you get a plastic tree.

but i also think that we need to have a revolt for the trees.

tonight, while all the assholes and pricks are sleeping, cheating on their spouses, picking up a hooker, performing satanic rituals or whatever the fuck people do late at night, i am going to walk around and wherever i find a tree on the sidewalk, i am going to prop it up on the front doorstep of that residence.

either that, or i'm going to hide the tree on the side of their house so the garbage man won't pick it up so the tree-waster will have to look at their tree in the face for another week.

who's with me?!

i'll do it by myself if i have to. i don't give a fuck.

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We use the fake tree. But, the last time I bought a real tree, there was a certain day we were supposed to leave the tree out so they got recycled.

We used to use a fake tree every year, then started getting real ones for a few years. We've gone back to a fake one (thankfully, it's much bigger than the old pos we used to have) but I'm pretty sure we recycled them, however that is done.

But I agree, using real trees is wasteful. Cutting down trees that are several years old just to have them on display for a month or less is kind of ridiculous. But such is the American way.

My family has always had a real tree and I wouldn't have it any other way.

The farm where we buy the trees from gives you a coupon when you buy the tree to recycle it. You bring it in on the set dates and they take the tree and recycle it and in return they give you a pine tree of your own to plant. It's a pretty sweet deal.

Slicker wrote:The farm where we buy the trees from gives you a coupon when you buy the tree to recycle it. You bring it in on the set dates and they take the tree and recycle it and in return they give you a pine tree of your own to plant. It's a pretty sweet deal.

that's a great way to do business. they can mulch the old trees and use it for the ones they grow in the future. very cycle-of-life of them.

Slicker wrote: The farm where we buy the trees from gives you a coupon when you buy the tree to recycle it. You bring it in on the set dates and they take the tree and recycle it and in return they give you a pine tree of your own to plant. It's a pretty sweet deal.

that is a sweet deal. i wish my neighborhood was that practical. i live in Orange County, California in a neighborhood full of OC soccer moms and peach 2-story houses. i asked around, and it turns out, people are throwing their trees away so early because they don't want to deal with the mess when the needles fall off.

hey Capstropov, she said Peach...

Sleazer wrote:hey Capstropov, she said Peach...

What can I say? There is not a soul who doesn't want something to do with the peach.