Not-a-Christmas-Tree Trees

I've come across so many of these I had to create a post just for them. Some are good, some are ugly, some are fabulous.

I think when my fake tree eventually dies and goes to a donation center in the sky I'll go the not-a-tree route. Lots of ideas out there:

recycling: good. This not-a-tree: not so much
p.s. You'd be a lot fatter than that chick if you ate all that cereal.

The folks at BLDG 15 made this crochet Christmas tree a couple years ago:



Lego: I heart you

Not enough kitchen storage? Here ya go:
So
long as you don't mind the fruit flies once these bananas ripen and rot...


I kind of like it, but it doesn't feel Christmassy:
What would be ultra cool is if this were a photo-tree and you could insert photos from your own Christmases over time. That would be awesome!


The ladder (I love this!):

This won an award. Apparently there were no other entrants:

minimalist:

meh:

If you have about 300 old SCSI drives laying around, you can make this one:
though it does look kind of scuzzy to me.


I don't know...if you were going to buy a tree, anyway, you don't get green points for this:

This I don't mind so much, except that there is clearly a decorating skills deficiency at play here:


I love this and I think I'll make one! Baby food jar tree:
(Clicking on the picture will take you to the source where there are instructions to make your own.)


Another one to make:

I like this cardboard tree:



by far, my favourite:

pssst: I can see your pencil outline.