How do you bring Christmas tree home?

[Erie Islands]

My husband informed me today that we can't get a real Christmas tree because we don't have a luggage rack!! We have a Honda CRV. I don't get it ...is he saying that the millions of people bringing home live Christmas trees all have luggage racks?! I'm so upset. Any advice would be helpful...thanks.

 

[momof2minnies]

We have an expedition and at the tree lot they bind up the tree and we fit it in the back of the truck. It is a 8ft tree.

 

[shortbun]

I think you just open your doors and tie the thing on the top of your car through the inside of your car temporarily. We do have a 'luggage rack' although without modifications it will not carry luggage.

 

[ADisneygirl]

Our vehicles do not have luggage racks. One year we brought home a real tree tied to the top of a Cavalier even! They "net" your real tree for you when you buy it at Home Depot and I would guess most other places too. This keeps the branches together. They also put it on a machine and shake it to get rid of loose things and bugs. Then they tie it to the roof of your car. It never damaged any of our cars to do this.

Tell your husband lots of people get real trees who don't have luggage racks and it doesn't damage their cars. If he is so worried he can bring a blanket and afterthey net it they will wrap the blanket around it before putting it on your roof.

 

[Erie Islands]

Thank you, thank you. I just knew you guys would have an answer. Just spoke to DH and we're going to try Home Depot. I am now officially back in the Holiday Spirit!

 

[kaw1218]

Oh.I so wish I had a picture of DH bringing home my tree last weekend.... he has a GEO Tracker...yup smaller than a Jeep....and he put down the back seat and had an 8' tree sticking out the back window!!! Very funny looking...but it worked. no damage done to the tree or car. Oh and Home Depot is a good choice...they will put a fresh cut on the bottom and they bind it up for you. They will also give you string if you choose to tie it to the car. Have fun!

 

[golfgal]

We were at the tree farm with half the state of Minnesota yesterday and there was every imaginable type of car there, including a flat bed trailer that took up half the drive to the trees. There were a lot of just cars where people had a blanket and ran the rope through their windows to anchor the tree. You can also stick it in the back of your CRV if your window opens separately, and have the fat end in the tree and the other end hanging out of the back.

In our old town we would drive 40 miles one way to get to the tree farm and just tied the tree to the top of our van. We never had a problem.

 

[christineann]

Thank goodness for pickup trucks. I went to Boone last weekend for a ball game and brought 3 eight foot trees, 7 wreaths and 2 seventy five foot garlands (coiled) in the box.

 

[skuttle]

We tied our 11 foot christmas tree to the top of DH's Solara this year! LOL! We put a blanket down on top of the car so it wouldn't get scratched up. DH did a great job tying it down...It didn't move the entire way home! We also bought ours from Home Depot.

Before we moved into this house, we would get a 6-7 foot tree. Normally we shoved it into DH's car (put the back seat down) and had some of it sticking out of the trunk!

 

[TheGoofster]

A luggage rack??? Huh, what a novel idea.
Actually in the sixteen Christmases that my wife and I have gotten trees, we have never had any kind of rack on top of the car.
We simply lay down cardboard (or a blanket) on top of the car, throw the tree up there, tie it down by running rope around the tree through the car, around the tree, throught the car, etc... until securily fastened, and drive it home.

A luggage rack...who would have though of it?

 

[elgerber]

Yep, no luggage rack here, but the tree still comes home. That was actually a consideration buying our current van. The only one that was the color I wanted with the other options had no luggage rack. But we still get the tree, we just put a blanket under it, then tie the ropes through the windows and under the back door. We wouldn't drive 60 mph like that, but it works just fine.

 

[DancingBear]

CRV owner here. Put half of the back seat down, pop open the window on the back; put the tree in the window bottom-first.

Also at Home Depot saw them using plastic wrap! Throw the tree on the top of the car, open the doors, and wind the wrap around the tree and through the car!

 

[DVCLiz]

I pay $25.00 and the nice young man at the tree lot puts it in his truck, comes to my house, brings the tree inside and sets it up for me. The only thing he won't do is put the lights on...

If I weren't a single person I'd make my DH figure it out anyway...isn't that what guys do, figure stuff like that out??? Make him get you a real tree....

 

[Erie Islands]

Thanks guys...ended up at Home Depot where they cut the bottom and wrapped it-who knew? Fit inside the car with back window open. Great advice as usual from the disboard!

 

[MsDisney23]

Send your dh to the moon!

 

[kendall]

Went to the Christmas Tree farm and cut our tree yesterday - they too have the machines that shake, drill the bottom for the stand, and wrap the tree. We throw ours in the back of a pickup truck (easy, yeah). Coolest thing though - on the way home we had a bald eagle, yes, for sure, a bald eagle fly right over us - we pulled off the road and watched it fly for a while over the fields and treeline - beautiful!

I understand your DH's concern about scratching the paint finish (I'm married to a DH who would be the same way) - the blanket or just let it stick out the window - part of the Christmas charm!

 

[Erie Islands]

Send your dh to the moon!

 

[Andrew Bichard]

I used to own a Citroen 2CV6.

One of its features was a canvas roof that could be unclipped at the front, rolled up and tied in a roll above the back window.

Two years running I rode home with an 8 foot tree stood up on the floor behind me. Mighty cold this time of year with the top down!!!!


Andrew

 

[FroggyinArk]

ok if by chance htey dont have awrapping machine, heres what we do, have the unwrapped tree placed in the back of any suv/van, with the big end to the front, on a blanket. when you get home, simply lift the bblanketand walk it out, if you buy tree and dont have blanket, you can work blanket underneath after you get home, start at the base of the tree and slide blanket towards top till its under the tree, then lift by the blanket,, works fine,

and i take it it is not a good day forhusbands at kittys house...lol