We should have gotten a fake tree

I had no idea those real trees shed so many needles

I always have had fake Christmas trees. My new wife, on the other hand, always had had real Christmas trees. So we had a real Christmas tree on our first Christmas as a married couple. That is when I discovered that I am allergic to pine trees. The tree was only up for 3 weeks but it was a bad three weeks. I am sure my wife would have agreed to get rid of the real tree if she would have known I was suffering. However, it took a week and a half before I realized it was the tree that was making me sick. Then I decided that I only had a little bit more to go before Christmas was over. So I didn’t say anything. Well we got rid of the tree but my allergies still didn’t get better. I tried changing the air filter for our HVAC system and thats when I noticed that there were a lot of pine needles in our air filter. I shone a flashlight down inside of our ductwork and there are a lot of pine needles all up inside of the ductwork too. No wonder I am still having allergy symptoms. It was probably a bad idea to put a live Christmas tree over an HVAC duct to begin with. I had no idea those real trees shed so many needles. So now I have hired HVAC professionals to come out and do a thorough ductwork cleaning. I’ll probably have them do a tune up on our HVAC system while they are at it. But, next year, we are getting a fake tree.

 

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