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Tree fairy

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MsGinaLinetti · 11/12/2025 07:33

Every year I float the idea of a Christmas fairy to top the tree. DH and DCs all claim that a star is the ornament that should be used. We have both. AIBU to think that a fairy is THE CORRECT tree topper?

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IsSheorIsntShe · 11/12/2025 09:05

One year we had Death, complete with scythe, from the Discworld series. Thanks, DS.

Brefugee · 11/12/2025 09:01

meh. I have a rubber duck

Deadringer · 11/12/2025 09:01

Star. I am waiting for the shop to open right now so I can buy one, we can't find the one we have used for the last 20+ years. We have a fairy that one of the dc made on it right now and it looks weird.

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MsGinaLinetti · 11/12/2025 09:01

I'm now loving all these traditions and preferences. Thank you

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Pantsinthewash · 11/12/2025 09:01

I'm Team Sindy!

imnotwhoyouthinkiam · 11/12/2025 08:59

We have something different every year depending on who has had what new.
Last year was a DiddlMaus (admittedly not new)
We've had ymYou Tooz figures. Lego things. Any thing smallish really.
Mainly because I've never found an actual topper that I like!

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MsGinaLinetti · 11/12/2025 08:59

Ha ha @IsSheorIsntShe

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RandomFireworks · 11/12/2025 08:59

We have a hybrid Celtic, Pagan, Saturnalia, fairy, angel,Mother Earth on top of ours. She has wings and wears a red and tartan dress with a laurel crown and carries a bouquet of foliage. Our tree is decorated with woodland and artic animals and birds with cinnamon sticks , pine cones ect so I see her as more Mother Earth than angel or fairy .

Magnificentkitteh · 11/12/2025 08:55

Star because the fairy in the song is so whiny and needy, who needs that judgment in their own living room? Some kind of beatific and silent angel is ok too.

LowlyThisChristmas · 11/12/2025 08:54

Lowly Worm has topped my tree for the last 30 years.

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Fifthtimelucky · 11/12/2025 08:53

We have an angel.

countrygirl99 · 11/12/2025 08:53

We had a fairy when I was a child (born 1959). We have a snowman.

Superhansrantowindsor · 11/12/2025 08:50

You are both wrong. It’s an angel at the top.

ScrambledEggs12 · 11/12/2025 08:49

We have a moose on ours. Stars on the little trees though.

WhiskyandWater · 11/12/2025 08:46

NoMoreHotHols · 11/12/2025 08:03

None of those. I have something similar to this as it reminds me of the toppers we used back home (not UK). (Photo may be pending)

This year we’ve chosen Santa on top. It’s a hollow felt one we had since my kids were little.

I have these! I have 3 that have been passed down through the family and one is a bit chipped at the base. Nice to see someone else uses them too.

goldtrap · 11/12/2025 08:44

Don't M&S base their whole Christmas campaign around Dawn French's fairy on the tree? If it's good enough for M&S.....

CrackingOn50 · 11/12/2025 08:41

Fairies as tree toppers seemed to be a big thing during the 1930s-60s.
I’m sure Enid Blyton did a story about it.

In the 80s we had a repurposed Flower Fairy doll stuck, legs akimbo, on top of our tree and my mother had a fairy on hers growing up.

This one on EBay made me laugh

https://ebay.us/m/OGAFpN

Vintage 1960s Christmas Fairy, Tree Topper Ornament - Plastic Doll | eBay UK

The dolls head is hard plastic, her body is hollow plastic. Slight age related ware.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/406342415866?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=PEUw_mZUTWm&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=cfLnAcJFSYa&stype=1&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

couldthisbe2501 · 11/12/2025 08:39

Angel in my house!

Lurkingandlearning · 11/12/2025 08:36

TootsMaHoots · 11/12/2025 08:31

But stars are awash with points!

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🤔. I think it’s the upwards only pointiness that displeases me. A big fat star, although it has pointy parts, seems more rounded.

Can you tell I have sod all to do this morning?

MissDoubleU · 11/12/2025 08:31

Namechangefordaughterevasion · 11/12/2025 08:03

We have an angel. A star is good too. Never, ever a fairy. You might as well have a hobbit or unicorn or some other fictional creature that is nothing to do with Christmas.

Ah yes, I forgot how fairies and unicorns are made up garbage while of course angels are completely based in science.

TootsMaHoots · 11/12/2025 08:31

Lurkingandlearning · 11/12/2025 08:02

It has to be a star for me because a fairy or an angel makes the top of the tree look too pointy.

But stars are awash with points!

JustTryingToBeMe · 11/12/2025 08:31

A religious topping to the Christmas tree would be appropriate if you are celebrating Christmas for its original purpose. However, if it’s just a reason for family and friends to get together and exchange gifts, then it doesn’t really matter what goes on the top of the Christmas tree, surely?

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MsGinaLinetti · 11/12/2025 08:27

I now feel the need to check whether she's actually an angel

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ErrolTheDragon · 11/12/2025 08:26

YABU but so are your family - as the posts on this thread prove, you should top your tree with whatever you like. Christmas, Yule, Saturnalia - midwinter festivals on or near the winter solstice have been ubiquitous over millennia in the northern hemisphere, and can blend and evolve happily together.

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MsGinaLinetti · 11/12/2025 08:25

I love all the pics

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