Do you or know anyone who buys entire new Christmas decs and other stuff each year

I have never heard of anyone doing this

That’s kind of what I do with one tree @FlowersInPots. I am lucky that we have lots of space in the loft for storage but I have to say it’s getting a bit much. Having a cull next month.

I love my old decs and getting them out each year but I know more than 1 person who has several different sets of decorations in different colours/themes. They’re rotated depending on what they want that year.
its not wasteful as they don’t bin it/replace every year but the storage required is more than I could deal with.

Where did I say that I DON’T spend a lot of money on a tree decoration???? I didn’t!!!!!

I’ve never even heard of anyone doing that never mind know anyone who does.

Yes, I do. She decides on the colour theme and purchases all new items from retailers like B&M or Matalan.

An odd story about the same person that I think about often is that when she moved house a few years ago, she binned everything and bought new. Bin, cutlery, knives, bedding, lights, towels. It was such a waste.

Last year the thought of getting the massive tree up after moving house with its hook and hang branches and then doing the lights made me close to breaking point.

A friend was getting rid of a nice pre lit tree that was too big for their small space so I accepted their offer.

I tried to see if any charities or groups could use our tree as it was still in really good condition. No takers. Eventually I managed to persuade a charity shop to take it - they had a sign up saying no more Xmas trees. I think they were planning on using it as a display in one of their shops/hospices.

Honestly I was relieved as I was considering landfill.

Regardless of money and desire I think we all have a responsibility to consider our environmental impact of such things.

Don’t know anyone like that. We had to buy all new last year (long story which I won’t bore you with) and it cost £200! Definitely won’t be replacing them anytime soon. Luckily didn’t need to replace the tree which must be coming up to 20 years old seeing as I got it secondhand from my parents and that was about 15 years ago 😂

But you could apply the "what about the poor children" to everything. Do make sure you only ever buy minimal amounts and all second hand / cheap so you can give all the other money to charity?

And i assume the company doesn't landfill it's products every year else there would be no point in renting them. They'll go back, be checked and sent out again the following year to someone else

That's not particularly wasteful though if the company is using the decorations again and again.

I detest the "trend" of matchy matchy and some influencer or company deciding that the in colour scheme for 2025 is silver and purple, or green and pink, or gold and black or whatever. Fuck that. I do not buy into that nonsense and have a clashing tree with decorations made/bought over the years, including vintage ones.

Its not about money but waste.

I dread to think the cost of my Christmas decoration collection. It's a global collection, each costing anything from 50p to £15.

My decorations are a mix. I have my grandmother’s old decorations which I love and they bring back childhood memories. We have lots of the in-laws old decorations too. When the children were little they each chose a new decoration for the tree every year. I also have some that the children made in school. We then have a couple from holidays that we’ve been on and one that we bought on our honeymoon. Lots of lovely memories attached to all of them.

Catesby's have some beautiful vintage style baubles.

We have a Balsam Hill tree now in it's 12 th year and have followed themes, copper and white, blue and white red and gold, 80s tat etc rose gold last year. Also we had a pound shop Christmas one year so we have a ton of decorations but I do like to get something new every year. This year it's a felted reindeer. Hopefully we will be in our new house for Christmas but if not we won't be having decs this year as we will be moving very soon afterwards and it's a faff

You're very lucky! I yearn to find some of the decorations my nan had on her tree back in the early 1980s, so to be able to have some from the 1930s sound excellent!

I know someone who always decorates according to the ‘colour of Christmas’ for that specific year! Who even decides on that???
To me, the traditional Christmas colours are red, white and green. We’ve got decoration that are older than me and are very sentimental and treasured, sometimes they go on the tree, sometimes not. We’re bought new baubles when we’ve seen some we like (the quality isn’t as good as years ago btw) Everything is always stored carefully and yes, we have casualties and some get broken but we’re not that precious about stuff…….memories remain long afterwards.
As for paying thousand to have professional decorators trim up the house……….thats just plain nuts! How many underprivileged children would have a better Christmas if that money were channelled elsewhere??
Finally, isn’t there enough stuff going into landfill without adding to it by disposing of useful things? One man’s tat is another’s man’s treasurer!

We have a real tree but everything stays the same. It’s part of the excitement for our kids, putting their favourites on the tree, putting up the decorations they remember from when Santa still came to our house.
And for me and DP - we have decs that we had as children or that were made by grandparents and parents.

We have done this twice over the years. Both times we’ve been unexpectedly away due to family emergencies and got back right before Xmas. We wouldn't have had time to decorate ourselves and didn’t want our kids missing out. We wouldn’t do it other than that though as we enjoy doing it.

We buy a few new things each year, but not everything. Most people I know do the same.

Hate the idea of a tree that a company has decorated for me, or even a new perfectly coordinated tree. It would just remind me of all the many trees in the lobbies of corporate buildings I see at work. Lovely for an office, not for a home.

For us, it wouldn’t be Christmas without going to choose our tree. The children get to pick one new decoration each year, we make an afternoon of it, hot chocolate and cake! Our tree is eccentric and when we decorate every decoration has a memory. Everyone has different taste and that’s ok but I find the coordinated look a bit gauche.

Yes, I know a fairly wealthy bored retired woman who spends most days on her huge sofa clicking away on amazon buying lots of tat for friends all year round....each year there are 3 new trees and lights and decorations, after xmas, she gets a friend to drive it all to her storage unit, she never retrieves any of the previous stuff. I dread seeing her on birthday or xmas as get handed several bin bags full of useless plastic junk that all goes to the charity shops. And yes she has been told many times that I dont need or want anything !

My friend did this for years, when I asked her why she was confused and thought that was what everyone did 😂She is a muslim and her family never did Christmas but she loves all the decorations and just never cottoned on. She has a collection she keeps now!

We buy a new bauble for each DC each year, which they are very excited to choose. All the rest of the decorations are old. I like getting them all out and seeing all the different ones. Our house is pretty eclectic too though, so a colour coordinated tree would look very out of place!