The Madness
Look what I brought home over lunchtime today.
There were a couple of factors contributing to the absolute madness of purchasing a fresh Christmas tree with ~4 weeks to go before the big day: FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), not liking long wait times, incoming inclement weather, and supply chain stress. The latter is mainly due to a large number of tree growers giving up the practise of farming these holiday beauties as a result of the 2008 recession, when the bottom of the market fell out. Apparently it takes a good 10-12 years to grow a tree big enough to sell to prospective buyers. The one atop my wife’s car is said to be about 2.5m (8 feet), and I am hopeful that most of it survives between now to the first week of January when it will be summarily tossed to the curb to be recycled into mulch.
The Madness
Look what I brought home over lunchtime today.
There were a couple of factors contributing to the absolute madness of purchasing a fresh Christmas tree with ~4 weeks to go before the big day: FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), not liking long wait times, incoming inclement weather, and supply chain stress. The latter is mainly due to a large number of tree growers giving up the practise of farming these holiday beauties as a result of the 2008 recession, when the bottom of the market fell out. Apparently it takes a good 10-12 years to grow a tree big enough to sell to prospective buyers. The one atop my wife’s car is said to be about 2.5m (8 feet), and I am hopeful that most of it survives between now to the first week of January when it will be summarily tossed to the curb to be recycled into mulch.