Christmas decor you just don't like?

[WhiteRosesAndThistles]

It's obviously all down to* *personal taste but..... which items of Christmas decor leave you feeling colder than the weather outside?
For me it's the Disney baubles/figurine things that hang on the tree! Putting a little red hat on Bambi doesn't make him festive, even worse when it's the whole collection and it looks like something that belongs in a nursery!
Thinking about it most Disney films seem to be set in the summer so maybe that's why they seem so wrong on a Christmas tree🤔
I did go through a phase of everything being silver/black and white (should give the Disney lovers something to cringe at on my behalf! ) but over the last few years I have added a bit more colour, obviously in a very tasteful almost still neutral way...
This thread is hopefully lighthearted, I am taking the piss out of myself and do not feel I need hate mail from the 'Disney Christmas Decoration Foundation'🤣

I’ve just added a couple of terracotta cushions to my sage green living room 🤣

Flashing Christmas lights are the devil’s work. Ours lights are always on a timer and when they come on the go crazy, so if I’m not home to press the button 6 times to go through the system to get them back to static they go bang bang in the window for hours. I really hate that.

I’m surprised by the amount of people that see advent calendars and elf on the shelf as decorations.

Why would someone eat tinsel?

I don’t personally like anything too neat or matching….i like anything a bit naff lol. Colourful lights and tinsel on the tree with lots of colourful baubles. Last year I went a bit too OTT with lametta though but my baby’s were tiny then and loved looking at all the sparkles.
also love colourful paper chains and foil decs.

Our hoover in the 80s was permanently wrapped with the stuff!

I am happy to admit to my decorative faux pa's as follows:

I love tinsel (a tree without it is naked I tell you! )
I have gonks...
I have multiple nutcrackers...
My tree is a bit matchy but not as bad as it was!

To the few posters that jumped on a lighthearted thread to tell me off for being judgmental...being judgmental is for life, not just for Christmas 😉

Candy Canes , what even is the point of them

The tree?

I came on to say almost exactly the same thing! I think the red bows look like the house has been marked as diseased! On a similar note, wreaths remind me of remembrance day and funerals so Xmas door wreaths feel a bit 'deathy' to me. Sadly MIL made us a reusable one a couple of years ago- she spent ages making one for us and one for her and was very proud of her efforts so it had to go on the door. I fear it may have been 'mislaid' this year!

Ohhhh yes those nutcracker soldiers with the teeth ... 😬

My OH and I both love a Hallmark Christmas movie - like me he is also a big fan of The Holiday and Die Hard (yes, they are also CMs...) and it's always funny to see the aircraft hangar load of decorations that gets topped over some defenceless Canadian snow town for each film - but those damn giant nutcrackers are always leering round some corner at the heroine!

With the gonks. Absolute tat.

I always think those are the people who are secretly deriving pride from being "more organised than everyone else." Basically tree up, tree down at the first possible moments.

I was just going to post the same. Who likes them?

I have to confess I am a warm fairy lights person, but I do let the dc have their own tree with "fun" 🙄coloured lights.

I can make my peace with actual Scandinavian Nisse and Tomten, but the crappy Asda knock off versions are not my thing. (And someone in Asda management needs to have a word with themselves about the intensity of their gnome obsession. )

I always thought that blue and cold white lights were for Hanukah rather than Christmas too.

I bloody love Christmas though and my house generally looks like several dlves on coke have been let loose in it. We have baubles from all over the world on the tree which we've collected over many years. I lose Poncetastic Christmas points for it being a fake tree though - I'm allergic to real ones, which makes the festive season a bit difficult. 🙄

Apologies if it’s already been mentioned, but Next have a Christmas tree where the whole top section is a gong and it has honk feet. It is ghastly.

Oh that might explain it. And then people saw them and thought "well that's obviously a new Christmas trend, I'll give them a try."

It's not my taste, but I think it's quite whimsical.

It does look quite nice but the design team* *have gone to great lengths to make it 'match' the home's decoration in the picture! Even the wrapping paper coordinates beautifully.
I imagine it would look much tackier in my house as it simply wouldn't blend appropriately.

Did someone upthread really say they spent over £150 on Advent Calendars???

I buy one with pictures in and family take turns opening it. Each to their own but...blimey!

I usually try not to be rude about my SIL because I hate the sound of all the bickering that goes on with ILs on these threads, but I cannot resist remarking at this point that my SIL - who genuinely has many good qualities - likes the gifts to be delivered sufficiently ahead of Christmas Day so that she can re-wrap them to match her decorating theme for the year!

FFS!!

Need laughing emoji NOW 🤣🤣🤣

I'm never organised enough, so have resorted to asking what wrap she is using so I can do it when I get round to it.

My partner has bought me a beauty advent calendar the last few years, and it’s bloody lovely. They’ve ranged in price - but I know the Harrods one was crazy money.

it’s such a nice treat, so whilst it’s completely un necessary, it’s very much appreciated and very well received.