Do you regularly buy new Christmas decorations?

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I don't mean buying a couple of new tree decorations to add to the collection each year, I mean more like deciding on a colour theme and starting fresh most years?

I know someone who redecorates her home in the latest trends on a yearly basis and then decorates her tree to 'match' each year. I am horrified and fascinated in equal measure!

We don't do this, we have been collecting our decorations since we set up home together 18 years ago and for us a huge part of Christmas is taking them out and looking at them and remembering where and when we got them and each year we add to them. I truly LOVE a lot of our decorations and cannot imagine throwing them away.

I stick loosely to a traditional slightly nordic style, lots of red and white and wood and felt and old fashioned looking baubles and when the tree is up I love nothing more than sitting with the fire lighting, fairly lights twinkling and sipping a baileys whilst admiring it all. None of it matches but I like how it looks

I just wondered how often you replace ALL your decorations or if you do?

I am waiting patiently for the FB update including many photos of my acquaintances latest colour scheme, so far we have have had all teal, all silver, all purple, all baby blue and all white -all on a white tree - each colour was a different year!

Same as you OP here- I probably buy a bauble or two to add to the collection each year and to replace anything which gets broken or tatty, but I love packing them all away and then rediscovering them each year.

My theme is all god and silver though, so if we redecorate the house it still matches.

No, I dislike themed and colour coordinated Christmas trees.
Much prefer my tree which is a riotous mix of clashing colours and ornaments thrown on by the children every year.
It’s hideously beautiful - the kind of beauty only a mother could love
They do pick random tree ornaments as and when, but we definitely don’t ever bin them and start afresh with a ‘set’ of baubles in a matchy theme.

I use same tree and decorations year in and year out but do know some who wander into Peter Jones each year and buy the whole kit and caboodle new in the latest range.

We add a few ornaments every year. I love the memories that they evoke when I sit looking at them.

We have been using the same ornaments for years and years but occasionally add new ones, if I see anything I like. But they are mostly glass, birds, bits of antique chandeliers, or gold and silver baubles, with bright white lights. It's a bit minimal but I couldn't cope with the visual discordance of multiple colours and tinsel. But there's a lot of sentiment unwrapping them all each December.

I change most of our trees decorations yearly, we have 5 Christmas trees maybe going to have have 6 this year but I always keep a lot of the old decorations and use as back ups if needed.

God, no. It's utterly wasteful to do that. All that shiny non recyclable plastic being ditched for the sake of a brand new showy colour scheme each year.

im like most folk and have ones that are full of memories i do know of people who have different schemes each year but doesnt seem right to me

Like a previous poster said, coordinated trees are the sort of thing I expect in a hotel or a shopping centre. They’re impersonal, sterile, and dull.
We’ve bought a few new baubles for the tree this year. My youngest is now of an age where we can totally dispense with the crappy plastic baubles so they’ve all been bagged up for the school trees. We’ll have a somewhat sparse looking tree for a while now, as we spend a few years building up the oddments that make us smile. This year's entries are a cat, a rubber duck, and a peacock. All on a green tree with warm white cluster lights.

We've been married for 20 years, our decorations are an electic mix of many years of buying yearly things, receiving things and vintage decorations of inheriting things from both DH and my childhoods. Christmas is as much a time of remembering times past to me as anything else

I buy 2 new decs for the tree each year, I let the kids choose what they would like.

I have a bit of a penchant for Xmas tree decorations I have to say.

These are this year's purchases

"It's utterly wasteful to do that"

Not if you put them away or donate what you don't use/want.

My DH died when our three children were young. We lost our house. So the second Christmas became about a new start.

I've still got old ornaments in boxes in the loft, but, the, it's too painful to use them.

I've changed what I like over the years (im 50), so have often done a complete theme change.

My living room, dining room and bathroom are all themed and different.

I know what I'm getting next year. I really wanted them this year, but I have kittens and have decided to have a spending limit.

My decorations don't go up until the middle of December to get Birthdays out of the way first.

I would find it so impersonal to take all the decorations with memories and throw them away, then get something that looks like it belongs in a shop. The only new thing I get is a bauble or two each year. I only have baubles and nothing else on the tree (apart from little white lights), so they look like they kind of are a 'theme'. I always go for the really nice stand-out ones, it always looks lovely and apart from a set of 12 I got from the white company they are all the same..

I suspect a lot of people don’t attach memories to Christmas baubles though. They’re only bits of glass.

All different, I mean!

I buy a few each year and keep getting all the old ones out. A new perfectly coordinated tree full of decorations lacks any Christmas soul as far as I’m concerned!

One year our old artificial tree gave up the ghost and I went to buy a new one. Whilst I was there, I thought new tree = new decorations so I chose some lovely ones in a different colour scheme, and new white lights.

Christmas just wasn't the same that year.

I'm glad I kept the old decorations, because we really missed them. The new colour scheme went to the charity shop and we went back to using all the old ones and traditional coloured lights. There's some baubles from my childhood, and others collected over many years. We get the occasional new one, and it joins the others in a joyous multicoloured display on the tree. Wouldn't have it any other way now

Hotel foyers or banks, fine. Otherwise it's completely soulless imo.

We have a mish-mash collected over the years, but they tend to be approximately from the same range of colours. There are a few odd ones though which are much loved because of their history. The oldest decoration to go up this year was bought in 1958 and still has the Woolworth's price sticker on the back: 1/6. That's 7 and a half pence for anyone who is post-decimal

I used to do the co-ordination thing (buying in January sales) but never had enough to do a single-colour tree except white. So it might be red and gold one year, blue and silver the next.

Since getting married we have bought something for the tree every time we go away (starting on honeymoon) and they are all mismatched but very personal. However, haven't had them up since getting cats. Hoping now the cats are three they will be calmer and I can have a tree this year. Will start off with unbreakable baubles just to be on the safe side (from my old stash, probably gold-coloured) before putting the precious ones on it.

No we've had the same for years. I call it the quality street colour scheme (jade and purple).
Oh had enough last year, bought new stuff so its white and silver.

I wish my parents hadn't had a clearout and thrown their old decorations away when we moved in the 1970's - the baubles were all mercury class and highly decorated, you just can't get anything like them any more. Most of them were 1950's-60's with a few pre-war.

(I have seen some similar on eBay, and they must be really collectable now because they change hands for ridiculous money)

I'm not very fussed about baubles but I have collected lots of stitched/knitted/rustic decorations over the years, I look out for similar ones. This year I want to get some more ribbon /tinsel. I wouldn't buy new every year, they would have to be cheap and tacky!

I hate a corporate looking tree in a house.
I have a very definite colour scheme, green and red and white. I mean it’s Christmas isn’t it?

My gran loved Christmas decorations and she always bought a few new ones every year, then we'd sit on Christmas day trying to guess what ones were new. I have some of the baubles from her tree after she passed and I tend to buy 1/2 new baubles per year maybe by the time I have grandchildren my tree will rival my grans.

My mum's tree still has baubles I made 30years ago on it, they make me smile every year.

No, but I used to have a very style-conscious neighbour who did - all new, different colour scheme each year - while complaining about being hard up! She once asked me what colour tree we were having that year.
Er, green?

Many of ours go back decades, inc. some from when I was small (back in the very olden days) inherited from my folks. Though I do buy the odd new one now and then.

The other day I came across a (supposedly lost) very battered angel made by dd at nursery when she was 3 - same age as her little dd now. It used to have pride of place at the top of the tree every year - we're going to resurrect it somehow!

The style police would probably faint at the sight of our tree, esp since I recently found - hooray! - a set of the old fashioned, soft and twinkly coloured lights, which will go on with a warm white set.

We used to have a huge tree every year - now we stick to a 5 or 6 footer, so I've passed a lot of our old decs. to dd, for Gdcs to enjoy.