Our Christmas tree pick-up for Oberursel was on 9 January, 2009. The day before, we Germans in high-rise apartment buildings dump our Christmas tree over the balcony like in the following IKEA commercial.
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All that was supposed to happen before 9 Jan. But on my way to the supermarket yesterday evening, I counted 14 trees still littering the roadside and still… more are getting thrown out.
Either some Germans just plainly missed the deadline or a very unusual second pick-up has been scheduled for this week. “You must keep se timetabel!”
The way the weather has been – cold wave in Germany – we might even consider keeping our trees until Christmas 2009…