People are just realising you’re meant to clean your artificial Christmas trees – and the dirt that comes off is grim

A MUM was near speechless erstwhile she realised the layers of filth that were lurking connected her family’s artificial Christmas tree. 

Tanja Bentley Ward revealed to different homeowners wherefore they should routinely cleanable their festive decorations.

Tanja (@tanjatalks) is steadily increasing her pursuing connected Instagram, wherever she gives a glimpse into her family life.

She unexpectedly went viral connected the social media app erstwhile she shared a video cleaning her artificial Christmas tree.

“How dusty could it perchance be?!” she said, successful the caption of her post.

“Last year, I mentioned however dusty the Christmas histrion appeared.

“This year, Johnny acceptable up a strategy for maine to rinse and adust the branches earlier we decorate the house.

“Have you ever cleaned your Christmas tree?! Ours was overmuch worse than I thought.”

A video showed that she washed each subdivision of the histrion successful her bathtub by dipping them successful and retired of water. 

It became intolerable to spot the bottommost of the tub arsenic the h2o became a grim brownish colour.

She past hung the branches to aerial adust connected what appeared to beryllium a clothesline acceptable up successful her garage.

“You mightiness beryllium amazed by the magnitude of particulate connected your Christmas tree,” work the substance implicit the video.

It garnered thousands of views with galore radical confessing they’ve ne'er cleaned their Christmas trees.

“My mum’s histrion is implicit 50 years aged I deliberation if we washed it, it would crumble to dust,” 1 idiosyncratic joked.

“The histrion my hubby and I inherited was a histrion my parents bought successful Germany successful the 90s and it’s ne'er been cleaned. I’d beryllium excessively acrophobic to,” different commented.

“Ooh I needed to spot this. Got my histrion 2nd manus and ne'er thought to springiness it a lavation down,” a 3rd said.

Other responses to the station confessed they were horrified but couldn’t beryllium bothered to cleanable their tree.

“I should astir apt bash this but similar I don’t person the patience due to the fact that I'm excessively excited to decorate,” 1 idiosyncratic said.

“I DONT NEED ANYTHING ELSE TO CLEAN,” different wrote.

“My parents' histrion is from earlier I was calved (1991) and I’m NOT doing this,” a 3rd chimed in.

“It feels sticky and weird and gross (both parents are long-time smokers) and I’m conscionable going to lavation my hands aft and not deliberation astir it 1 much second.”

However, respective commenters said cleaning the histrion doesn’t person to beryllium time-consuming.

One idiosyncratic suggested utilizing wipes, portion different said they connect their Christmas histrion to the extortion of their car and spell to a drive-thru car wash. 

“Take it extracurricular and spray it with the hose earlier it gets excessively acold out, adust it disconnected with the leafage blower past instrumentality it successful and decorate it,” a 3rd suggested.