It stayed up for usually around 2 weeks after that, depending on how quickly it started losing lots of needles

"only" 2 weeks? What is normal where you live? When we still had a tree (when I was a kid) it got put up on the 24th

We turn on our vacuum robot after we leave because the kids are scared of the sound :0) but they eagerly help press the button on the phone to turn it on

Because they said somewhere else that the dog has been dead for a few years now ;0) unless, of course, that was someone else's comment

But, but, but... They can just climb in from the passenger side and comfortably scoot over, right? I mean that thing is huge, you might even be able to just walk over.