Is your Christmas tree coordinated glory or a mismatch of decorations from the years?

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Ours is so random, some from my mum, friends’gifts, dh’s kids favourite baubles. It doesn’t match….

Ours is a crazy mess, the DC (6&8) decorated it all themselves this year and I am so chuffed at myself that I've come this far without redoing it 🤣

Mine doesn’t match at all, it’s so tacky and I love it!

Mismatch.
When we started and it was more tasteful it felt a bit lacking.

Complete mismatch or as I like to say maximist.

It has different coloured tinsels, lots of pretty baubles which all represent something, twinkly lights which I have set to rotating rainbow and a massive rainbow star.

It depends - I have lots of decorations and can do 3 or 4 quite distinct themes from them. I mix and match depending on what mood I’m in and what ‘feel’ I want.

This year the real tree is coordinated - champagne, gold, silver, frosted, white.

I haven’t done the dining room tree yet but it’s going to be colourful.

Mismatch. Kid makes one each year plus a few shop bought ones to fill a few gaps

When we bought our first tree, we bought a pack of baubles to decorate it. Every year since then, we have bought at least one new decoration, usually when we are on holiday. People who know is well have given us decorations and sometimes, the children at work give me decorations. 40 years after buying our 'job lot', and with a much bigger tree now, we have no regular baubles on our tree, rather, we have a wonderful collection of memories on our tree.

Mismatched, tacky and coloured lights!

Mismatched things accumulated over years - each with a memory or story.

When we moved out of my mom's I was adamant that I wanted colour and decoration coordination. So I did. The first year it was black and blue. Second black and purple. Third black and red and so on. Then we had our first little boy. I got a little more adventurous and started adding little characters to the tree. But still colour coordinated. Anyway fast forward to now 9 years later from moving out and 2 kids later and our tree is a rainbow of all the random colours I had years past. We've got all the kids little hand made decorations on there and any of the mac Donald's toys that come with a little hanger go on there too now. We've got little miss, Mr men, batman figures and little animals. It's great and I feel better for not being obsessed with it to be honest haha 😆

It’s kind of 6 of one and half a dozen of the other.

They’re all Newbridge silverwear decorations, but they’re all random. Some are Christmassy, religious and secular, then there’s the snowman on a missile, baby rattle and baby bracelet (kids first Christmasses) a bike, a hot air balloon, polar bears, a train, a camper van, a harp and a sprinkling of stars and snowflakes.

Because they’re all silver with the same ribbon they ‘match’ although it’s quite the eclectic collection.

Mismatched but they all sort of go.

Mismatched from the years, I love it. Every decoration is a reminder of something..

Not sentimental about baubles.

I've gone for a muted theme of brown fur, black and string baubles for the second year in a row but I don't have small kids to enthuse with wonder the cat's a different matter

I call it a the lockdown theme but TBF it's pretty restful as these things go

Artificial tree that I use every year and a mismatch of baubles. Some from my son’s first Christmas in 2004, some clay decorations he and his sister made in nursery or school over the years, a bauble we’ve bought at gift shops if we’ve travelled and some from my late aunts. Every year, I tell myself to buy an instagram-worthy tree and decorate it with only matching baubles - but it would look out of place in my house (which is also mismatch) and I like that my tree is full of memories

My decorations have been collected through many years and have many memories attached. Each tree has a story of its own, too, depending on how it’s dressed. It’s not an exercise in curated perfection, it just organically takes on a character or theme as I work. I love a peaceful, calm, understated tree but I also love a tree that’s full of colour. I don’t buy many ornaments anymore - one or two each year. And I was thinking today that starting next year I will tell my daughters that I don’t need Christmas presents anymore but I’d love for them each to choose a new ornament for me ever year as a little token gift. My DH’s gift to me each year will be the Christmas tree, now that we can finally have a real one every year.

Urgh I really don't like coordinated ones in a home - that should be for stores and public spaces only. Mine isn't 'mismatched', it's just a Christmas tree with lots of lovely decorations - some fancy, some tacky, all different colours. Just like I grew up with. And that's closer to what they looked like in Victorian times, when it was first a thing here, if old illustrations are anything to go by

Ours is mismatched - some the DC made, like a pp DH and I bought a job lot the first year together and have just added to the each year as we like. I love that each decoration has a memory, and that the DC all have their favourites.

I have a friend who posted her tree and everyone was coo-ing over her chic theme of white and gold, but it just left me cold. Yes, it looks beautiful, but for me it has no soul.

Totally mismatched, and I love it. The memories behind each one, inc the ones from my childhood

One of each.

Upstairs we have a fake, gaudy, mish mash of a tree and downstairs we have my beautiful real tree, all co-ordinated and pretty.

Oh goodness so much shite on our tree.

A mixture of all sorts of ours but they all kind of go. I've bought my two DC a new tree decoration each year since they were born, so many have a sentimental attachment.

Mine is a glorious mismatch of 30 odd years of memories.

We have a mismatch. We collect a bauble on our travels and other trinkets. Plus crafty bits too

Mismatch. But, if someone buys me a bauble and I don't like it plastic kangaroo from Australia, I won't use it. I have limits.