Simplify your Christmas by renting a living tree
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Christmas is fast approaching and there are plenty of things to do. If you want to check something fairly major off your list, help the environment and bring the heavenly aroma of fresh pine into your home then rent your Christmas tree.
A company will take them out of the ground and stick them in pots. They’ll deliver it to your home where you can enjoy it through the holidays. Around New Year’s they’ll pick up the tree and plant it at schools, parks, churches, etc. that pay about $10 for them to do so.
The cost is $75 for the tree to be delivered and picked up, or you can save ten bucks and do it yourself. Not a bad deal considering what trees are going for nowadays.
Sounds like a perfect arrangement, but of course there’s a hitch: The company, Living Christmas Trees, is based in Portland, Oregon (my old stomping grounds) so if you don’t live around there you’re out of luck for the time being.
However, if you’d like to take matters into your own hands they do have a section on their site about suggestions of what to do if you live out of state. They even have franchising opportunities.
What do you think? If it were available where you live would it be something you’d do? Why or why not?
LivSimpl
P.S. Do you have any tips to simplify the holiday rush? If so, e-mail me at LivSimpl at gmail.
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 at 10:16 pm and is filed under Environment, Holidays. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
I would definitely do this. I love my real Christmas trees but always feel so guilty about wasting a tree. Hopefully, we will get this in Salt Lake someday.
Shauna – thanks for the comment!