I am pitting our scotch pine tree. It looked sooo pretty, nice and symmetrical. We have spent hours trying to put it up, but it just keeps falling over. It must have concealed some dreadful christmas-tree curse. It looks fine, but cannot be balanced. We have tried tilting it in every direction. I have spent 2 hours adjusting the tree stand. I may get some two by fours and nail this thing a few legs. grrr… Bad, Bad Naughty tree!
You just have to hypnotize the entire household into beleiving that it will stay up.
It worked on Monty Python
You could do what I had to in a houseful of kittens-tie the tree to the window frame with monofilament.
Early on in my no-longer-existant marriage, my wife bought a beautiful tree. Unfortunately the damned thing was huge and lop-sided. She also invested in a 2-dollar tree stand that immediately collapsed under the weight of this Conifer from Hell. the trunk didn’t even fit in the stand; it had to be pared down.
We ended up wrapping a rope around the trunk and nailing it to the baseboard of the wall. Guy wires on a Christmas tree. Nice.
One year we had a kitten that insisted on climbing the tree. Every year for several years after that the Christmas tree was tied to fishing line at the top which had eye hooks in the corners of the room to keep it from falling over.
Now that I think of it maybe there should have been a way to keep the kitten off the tree.
Wow, happy ending. The tree farm people let us trade in for a new tree! And I got a new stand from Lowes that claims to be able to handle a 12 foot, 250 lb freaky giant tree. The new tree is now up. It appears to be the most solid part of the living room.