I've had live Christmas trees before for Christmas. Only I've had them on hardwood floors. I need to remind myself to never again put a tree on carpet. Totem was literally sweeping our rugs to get the pine needles out. I swear there was close to an inch of needles on our carpet after we actually got the thing out of our apartment.

I guess I paid the price for letting the thing die and not keeping it water'd every couple of hours... The apartment does smell like pine, though. ;)