Please remember to water your Christmas tree
It can be a matter of life or death
Updated: 11:18 AM CST Dec 9, 2019
The holiday season is a lovely time for high-stress traveling, buying people things that they neither particularly want or need and contentious encounters with your extended family. But perhaps the greatest holiday tradition is the annual installment of an enormous fire hazard in your living room. Just in case you forgot that keeping your Christmas tree well watered can be a literal matter of life or death, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission prepared this festive holiday greeting to remind you. According to the video posted in 2017, "a dry Christmas tree burns faster than newspaper." It certainly proves how vital it is to make sure your tree is watered: May your days be merry and bright, and may all your Christmases be appropriately water-saturated and not actively on fire.
The holiday season is a lovely time for high-stress traveling, buying people things that they neither particularly want or need and contentious encounters with your extended family. But perhaps the greatest holiday tradition is the annual installment of an enormous fire hazard in your living room.
Just in case you forgot that keeping your Christmas tree well watered can be a literal matter of life or death, the prepared this festive holiday greeting to remind you. According to the video posted in 2017, "a dry Christmas tree burns faster than newspaper." It certainly proves how vital it is to make sure your tree is watered:
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May your days be merry and bright, and may all your Christmases be appropriately water-saturated and not actively on fire.