What tacky decorations do you love?

[LatinLanguage]

I was pondering this yesterday as I stood in a queue to pay for a snow globe - I have a wee collection of them and I love putting them out each year. Husband rolls his eyes and laughs- he thinks they’re tacky, but I don’t care!

I also found a Lemax Christmas village in an antique place earlier this year, and I’ve bought a couple of extra bits to add to it, so I’m going to have that out too. I think it’s a bit cheesy but cute, and I’ve been googling ways to display it!

What do you love that other people think is a bit naff?

[RagamuffinCat]

Nutcrackers and a nativity scene. I love them, and look forward to putting them out.

[Wizzbangpop]

We had a Christmas tree which danced and sang jingle box. Now have a cat which sings a medley of Christmas sounds.

We decorate our house quite traditionally but this is our tacky decoration for the giggles. And I love it

[user1374384]

I LOVE tacky/kitch decorations. For me it is all about 60's 70's 80's Christmas things. Foil ceiling garlands, real bulb Christmas lights with pinks and orange tones, Satin baubles, those little wooden toy themed baubles you can usually still get from Christmas markets.

[LatinLanguage]

Love it! I have fond memories of those shiny 80s foil garlands too. It was always a Big Event in our house the evening they went up.

I used to make a Nativity every year with tiny dolls as a kid, with an ice cream tub for a stable.

[Youseethethingis]

I will never tire of tinsel. I love the stuff. A Christmas tree that’s all tasteful and restrained is one of those strange anomalies of the universe. Like low fat cake. Do it right or don’t do it at all!

[duckling84]

Tinsel! I walk around shops stroking the stuff 😂
Theres a campaign going on to get rid of it and make it more eco friendly and as much as I'm trying my best to make eco changes, that to me is a step too far.

[Allmyarseandpeggymartin]

I’ve got an angel that is tack city, plastic doll, with a crepe paper dress and tinsel wings and halo. She was left to me by my grandma and I adore her. My friends are all a bit

[groovejet]

I would love some of the foil garlands / hanging lanterns, just to put up in the kitchen as a reminder of Christmas as a child.

I have purchased from Ebay some 70's christmas cake figures so at least my cake this year will serve as a reminder.

[troppibambini]

I love it all!!!
When I was a child after we had decorated the tree we use to put this white see through floss stuff on the tree. I've never been able to find it. I've tried googling 70s Xmas tree floss and no one else ever remembers it.
It's probably highly flammable and been banned!!!

[ScreamingCosArgosHaveNoRavens]

When I was a child, we used to have a candle stand with chimes and angels - when you lit the candle, the angels would spin round and sound the chimes. It was always on the table for Christmas dinner - we loved it.

[TheGirlFromStoryville]

I love genuine vintage 60s/70s decorations and baubles. We used to have a restrained colour theme for the main tree but last year I started buying vintage ones instead and I've carried on. Ebay good especially for vintage Polish glass baubles. Also got the Pifco carriage fairy lights which are fabulous.

Colour themes are boring, go big or go home!

[Dislocatedeyeballs]

That floss stuff you speak of do you mean a but like fluff/cobweb stuff you get for Halloween? To look like snow? Think you can get that in party/fancy dress supply shops maybe or material shops?

[groovejet]

troppibambini was it angel hair?

If so you can buy it on amazon.

[user1374384]

@troppibambini do you mean like tinsel strands? If so it's called lametta! I've seen it on a couple of friends trees before and thought it looked awful but it looks quite retro amazing on this picture! For any other foil decoration fans you can usually get the ceiling garlands from Wilko. I stopped buying them because they would break each year and it gave me a guilty eco conscience. The ones we had as kids came out every year.

[Betterversionofme]

There was a box of Christmas decorations left here by previous occupant when I moved here 19 years ago. I still have some of those decorations supplemented by few bought when asked by my children when they've been little for some they've seen while out with me. I got whatever they wanted and their taste as toddlers was not very matured yet. They were very happy though. And our tree was always real aromatic tree with height calculated so that my tallest child could not reach top of it. Easy task with a 4 years old but it made them feel the tree is 'huge'.
We also had a lot of homemade decorations. Paper chains, gingerbread hung on with red ribbons. Most favourite were little Rose collection chocolates. Pick favourite ones, wrap prettily in a tissue paper, hung up on your Christmas tree, eat from tree, repeat with more chocolates. There is an element of surprise what chocolate you'll get (even though all are acceptable, I wouldn't use disliked) and it's really exciting near the end of Christmas period when the tree is becoming a bit bare and you have to search for it deep in the tree, near trunk and scratch your hand on needles when reaching for it (persistence building).
We love our ugly Christmas tree and it makes all adult visitors feel good about theirs.

[Dislocatedeyeballs]

Or white fairy angel hair? Tried to post pic won't post it's on amazon

[user1374384]

Check out this bad boy

[user1374384]

Spun glass! Imagine taking this down after Christmas. Perhaps angel hair was the original and lametta was the plastic hand friendly version?

[BernardsarenotalwaysSaints]

We inherited a tacky as hell 3ft tall Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer that sings Jingle Bells when MIL died . I would never have bought it but he comes out each year in her memory. I used to get a few raised eyebrows about him as he’s not our style but everyone is used to him now

[morningdread]

I have lots of vintage glass baubles in bright colours but don't consider them tacky (may be wrong). I do love those little plastic weird face Santa's that clip on, remind me of my youth.

[DragonMamma]

I loved the foil garlands that would be put in each corner, with the longer ones all connecting to a central bad boy.

I also love multicoloured lights and tinsel.

I tend to go for more restrained decorations now but I’m seriously tempted by coloured lights with those plastic spiky things on, that could cripple you if you stood on one whilst untangling them.

[troppibambini]

Yes yes!!!!
I think that was it angel hair the one we had was like a very thin sheet. It was in a roll and you just draped it over the tree I think it was meant to look snowy (but it didn't)

[MrOnionsBumperRoller]

I love 'precious things' too OP and adore all the tack crap of Christmas, especially unusual/beautiful baubles for the tree and religious stuff.

[Mumtobe193]

I loved our tacky Christmas decorations when I was growing up. We had multicolour musical fairy lights on our tree. They used to play Christmas carols (kind of like a polyphonic tune) and the lights would chase to the beat if that makes sense? Did anybody else have those or even know what I’m talking about?

We also had a beautiful Santa figure that moved and was sat on a chair that you would pop a tape in the back of and it would play the story of the night before Christmas. I used to play it over and over again as a kid.

[Courtney555]

Paper chains!