There it goes.......

Yes, my christmas tree. YIKES!!

We cut one of our own this year-not a pretty specimen at that. Its been tippy since we put it up last week. Finally found more matching lights and it was wobbling but while I was decorating (no glass ornaments or other fancy ones for this tree it tipped over.

The water spilled all over and just a general mess. Got some heavy weight on the back of the tree stand and rearranged the ornaments so hopefully it will be ok.

Did a mention a cat (Bender) might have had something to do with the tree falling??

Oh no, all that hard work just to have to do it all again. Smartie climbed up mine the other day, its 8ft and it was wobbling, flippin heck I'd know about it if that fell down, luckily I managed to get her out the middle of it without too much damage x

Oh boy!! We've never had a tree tip, but then it's been several years since I put out my big one. (I always go artificial.) I do recall when I was in Junior High my mother was working as a nanny for this family that had a big beautiful home. They had a 2 story family room with a balcony overlooking it from the upstairs (the home had a waterfront view too, very nice house!) and they always had a tree that stretched well up into that second story area. One year that tipped over!! After that they started securing it to the beams that stretched over the room! To this day I've never known how they even got the tree inside. My theory is they came in the big font door, up the stairs, then over the railing into the family room. Lots of work! But always very pretty!

Well I think ours is well over 10-11 ft. But not well filled out as it was growing amongst two other spruce trees. The weight we put on last night is holding plus I now have the base area covered with presents so no cat can get under the tree very well.

We had a year awhile back where the blasted tree tipped at least once every 48 hours...turns out it was just to heavy for its stand, even full of water, nd it was only a 7' tree. So we ended up going out and buying a commercial tree stand (rated to hold trees up to 18' tall) and haven't had a problem since. Albeit, DH tells me the stand is a bit of an overkill since you can lean on the tree with no water in the base and it still doesn't fall, but I've not had to clean up a tree since getting it.

When my wolf x Ginger was alive (she passed away 2 yrs ago at 13yrs old), we used to literally wrap/bolt the tree to the wall. She would get SOOOO excited when she played that she would accidently tip it over when she ran back and forth in my mom's house We learned quickly when she was a puppy to wire ALL ornaments/lights/etc onto the tree...and as she grew we finally resorted to discretly securing/bolting the tree to the wall so she wouldn't knock it over every day