To ask if you change your Christmas theme every year?

[worstyearofmylife]

We've had the same the last two years but I want traditional red and golds this year but OH thinks it's a waste of money (he hates Christmas) I don't feel like the blues and blush we normally have are that christmassy

How often do you all change your theme?

Change my what?!
It just all comes out the loft. Something very comforting about seeing the same decorations every year.

and "Surely the 'theme' is Christmas ?"

and what @Oblomov20 said

and what @Retiremental said.

I can't understand the waste, nor the throwing out of the memories that different baubles or home made decorations bring.

Does an explosion in a tinsel factory with 20 years worth of handmade decorations and a lopsided angel count as a theme?

It does chez Dingdong.

Never. The theme is Christmas. We just keep putting the same baubles, lights, tinsel and child-made bits and pieces on the same trees every year and only replace if they break. Buying new decs every year just for the sake of it is a massive waste.

I don't. I buy a handful of new baubles ea h year and retire tatty ones.

How tacky. A themed, Instagram christmas with perfectly curated decorations. Soul-less, dull, just awful.

Christmas decorations are about getting the nativity out that the kids made in infants, a bauble a child picked with their own pocket money, or something else with memory and sentiment.

Not all matchy matchy and twee. Yuk.

Blue and blush sounds like something you'd see in a shopping mall and very un-Christmassy - so you're forgiven if you want to replace them this once.

I'll add some more to replace broken decorations every 10yrs or so.

Pleased to see so many people thrown by the very concept of having a "theme" for Christmas. Something very clinical and sad about the idea of that.

Tree goes up, all decorations we have go on it. Usually add one or two each year that the DC pick at the same time we buy the tree.

One year I changed from red and gold baubles (still have them in case I fancy a change) to blue and silver and I buy a few new ones to add each year. However most of my tree decorations were gifts and I love getting them out of the boxes and remembering who gave them to me.

I also have so much Christmas stuff that I couldn't change the theme each year, I put all of the normal photos clutter away and replace it with Christmassy themed decorations even more clutter.

Your question doesn’t match your OP. What you want to know if YANBU to buy new decorations as you don’t really like the old ones any more.
I’m all for avoiding waste and am fairly bah humbug when it comes to Christmas, but just go and buy yourself some new baubles! And maybe pick up some more interesting bits in the post-Christmas sales for next year. Otherwise you’ll be wondering in 10 years time why you didn’t just switch them for ones you actually like.

Maybe once in 20 years. Concepts like changing every year is why we are fucked as a planet.

What is a theme? Buying new every year? Sod that. We buy one new decoration a year to add to the collection that's it.

Over the years we have been together (20 ish) we've started from a basic bargain set of baubles and added to it year on year. We now have two trees each year but there's not really a theme as such. I'm not hugely keen on colour coordinated decs, but that's just a personal preference.

No the theme is Christmas.

I have about 400 baubles, no more than 6 the same: glass baubles, metal bells, embroidered felt, classic & novelty - a complete mix. Every single one goes on the tree.

Other than the tree the house is filled with homemade wreaths and mantle garlands, paper whites and fairy lights.

Never. I also hate all the pink/blush stuff with feathers on it. I think it’s an incredible waste of money.

Pre dc I had a theme. But since dc, my dc is the theme really, as nearly everything I put on the tree now has been made by, chosen by, or chosen for her. It's a bloody awful mess of lovely memories and putting it up is a happy hour on a Sunday afternoon each year.

I mostly have homemade decorations (by talented family members, not me). Then I string up work and family Christmas cards when I bring them home the Friday before Christmas. No theme, other than individual decorations that I love, no theme changing. I'm getting a small pot grown tree this year so I can reuse it every Christmas.

Never. Dame decorations year after year. Waste of money, rather spend it on food, champagne or presents.

I started with cheap Woolworth's baubles, and each year doe the last 20 or so, I've added expensive glass baubles in gold, silver, and red by buying them after Christmas for the next year.

When I get them down the following year, I have a lovely surprise because I've forgotten what I bought, but I also leave the receipt in the box so I can enjoy the bargin all over again! But I also get to see the old favourites and I remember where everthing came from.

I now have three trees, my daughter loves that the oldest one was from her first Christmas (2002). But I have always avoided 'fashion colours'. And I have stoppped buying, because it takes two days to put everything up!

The main theme of my tree is memories (although I do try to keep it red and white as much as possible)

I buy a decoration whenever I go on holiday. I love my international tree.

Also, when I was little my aunt gave me a decoration every year. My DM has now passed these onto me. I'm going to do the same with DS (as well as the obligatory saltdough).

I couldn't possibly change my tree decorations. They mean too much.

No but I’ve alway stuck to traditional Christmas colours. I like adding the the decorations with things found on holidays etc. Keeping it sentimental.

Never! The joy is unwrapping favourite baubles year after year, it feels like greeting old friends.

I don't do Christmas themes full stop. I have a very eclectic collection of decorations I have been collecting for 20 years. And looking and then makes me inexplicably happy

Never. Over the years we've collected lots of lovely individual baubles and other collectible things like the embroidered tree hangers that National Trust shops sell, I love the tree star which my DS have been putting on the tree since they were babies. Also collect glass trees so add to my little 'forest' of those. I love that they bring back memories and look forward to getting them out every year. I'd feel sad to get rid of them and buy other ones that have no meaning.

Our theme is Christmas too. I affectionately refer to the tree as 'bad taste corner' sometimes.

I try and add a few new decs each year and have built up a collection of gold, red, green and silver items that can be mixed in different combinations. E.g. gold & red, silver & red, gold and green. Pretty traditional but can be a silver tree or gold tree. I do t do tinsel and have strings of beads instead.
I do fancy going dark blue and gold this year but struggling to find anything blue! 🙈