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Beating the Christmas-tree-disposal rush in the North End
By adamg on Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:30pm
Adam Castiglioni noticed this tree out for disposal tonight on Charter Street in the North End.
Michael Ratty noticed a tree out for disposal around noon in the South End.
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Bah Humbug!
This douche probably put it up on Black Friday.
Today is the FIRST, not the TWELVTH day of Christmas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Days_of_Christmas
Feast of the Epiphany
Usually January 6th. Sometimes called Little Christmas. Celebrated in many Latin countries, in Ireland, Scotland, parts of England, in many European countries, and among Eastern Orthodox Catholics. My family use to celebrate it, we'd get small gifts as kids. In some countries the exact date differs, we celebrated it on January 6th, the day allegedly the three kings visited baby Jesus. My mom would never take down Christmas decorations including the tree until after January 6th.
Not everyone's a Grinch
I saw a tree in the trash on the 23rd. I figure the guy was gonna be away for a while and didn't want to come home next week to a dead tree.
Or maybe they are getting rid of the fire hazard
And making room for presents and a place to at with them. Merry Christmas. And lovely choice of language to refer to fellow man on Christmas.
Or maybe
Her/his loved one left her/him, crushing her/his heart, and she/he could no longer bear to look at the tree that symbolized current and future happy Christmases, with each other and with their growing family... Maybe. Or maybe she/he is just excessively tidy.
Probably leaving town tomorrow
I know people leaving for warmer climes on Saturday. Their tree will be on the front lawn tomorrow. If someone is trying to make an garbage pick-up, they might have to get it out tonight. Rather than assuming a Grinch-like attitude towards the season, maybe we should assume someone was expecting winter to have actually shown up by now! ;)
This comment is probably due
This comment is probably due to misdirected anger, yet anger nonetheless, but Adam Castiglioni and Michael Ratty just scream "yuppie" to me. People in our city were shot tonight (and probably killed)... on Christmas. There will probably be more of a debate on this post than the previous one.
Yet this is what outrages people. Decorative trees thrown out, not human lives lost. And tomorrow we will protest against the BPD, but not urban gang warfare.
Have some cocoa
I don't see any outrage in this discussion. Couple of people saw something odd, they took photos and other people promptly came up with a logical possible explanation for what they saw.
As for outrage over the shootings, what did you do about them?
Adam...
you heartless bastard. You were probably sipping hot coco and singing Christmas carols while ISIS ran rampant in Iraq. Have you no shame? Don't even get me started on you lack of empathy for tree abuse.
Michael Ratty is one of my very best friends
I can assure you that he's thoughtful about greater issues. He very capably walks and chews gum at the same time.
When is noticing something
When is noticing something and photographing it considered outrage? Why would you people out by name as yuppies and hide behind an anonymous comment? How does a tree on a sidewalk have any connection to lives lost and urban gang warfare?
No time to lose
There's no time to lose. We've got to make room to put up Easter and Fourth of July decorations as soon as possible.
Seriously, I went into Marshall's in East Boston today and every trace of Christmas is gone.
I confess to being an enabler.
I helped clear away some of that half-price Christmas candy.
Cherish the Memories
I am a super at an apartment building. Jammed my first tree into the dumpster on 12/10!
Happy holidays one and all!
Goats love to eat Christmas
Goats love to eat Christmas trees. FYI.