With all my though process on what to put our Christmas tree in – galvanized wash tub, wooden crate, or half of a whiskey barrel – the brilliant folks at Crate&Barrel have a solution all their own.

(Half of a whiskey barrel won, btw.)

It’s a galvanized tree collar……

It looks like an inverted washtub, but I think I can live with that.

Pretty clever folks over at the Crate & Barrel,

Pretty clever indeed.