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 quite like cedar wood candles, or anything else that smells like a crackling log fire.

OMG I love those! Yes they're tacky, but they really take me back to my childhood Christmases. I keep meaning to get some for nostalgia's sake, maybe this year I will.

Blue lights -especially flashing ones. We have a restaurant down the road which is in a beautiful, ancient thatched property and which now has, all year round, bright blue madly flashing lights around the roof line. Looks absolutely horrendous.
Anything pink or/and feathers.
Disney.
Gonks.
The beige tree in a beige decorated house with beige coloured wrapped gifts etc etc. So boring.
Those massively overstuffed trees that celebrities tend to get put up where you can't even see a branch or hint of green. The ones where they have the giant baubles wedged next to full sized soft toys and acres of ribbon and huge fake poinsettia in pastel colours.

I collect Christmas decorations on our travels - they're not related to the location mostly, but I can go, that's the glass from Krakow, that's the knitted one from Bucharest etc from sight.

My MIL well-meaningly thinks we therefore want decorations from around the world. She gets us garish "I heart Florida" ones when we've never been to Florida. They get "lost" if especially garish, or stuck on the back of the tree.

She also violates our travel magnet collection with ones from their trips. She means well, but she just doesn't get it!

You need to see the Royal Ballet's Nutcracker. Then you'll 'get' it.

And it's a traditional German design - der nussknacker. 😂 The early ones were used to crack nuts.

@dreamiesformolly i don't think they are tacky at all

@TheNinkyNonkyIsATardis that's strong language there "violates our travel fridge magnets"

Artificial trees that are not green. Pink, white, rainbow.
Christmas cushions, beddings
Ice blue and white decs
Anything like flamingos, pineapples as decorations
OTT outside lights. OK with a strip around the house.
Real trees. Sorry, being asthmatic, the smell triggers my asthma
Most Xmasy scented candles and other scented things. Apart from Yankee Candle's Xmas Morning Punch which is nice. Got it as a raffle prize.

Bought Britannia beanie baby in a charity shop 25p bin

Another one for gonks. They’re awful in my opinion.

Blue flashing lights - like emergency services.
Penguins.
The doltish neighbours who had their house decorated outside in all its garishness before Remembrance Sunday.

Blue lights.
Christmas pyjamas and bedding.
Christmas decs up before Advent and down before Twelfth Night.
Brand new decs every year to match a theme.
Gonks / Elf on the Shelf.

However I love those retro foil room decorations 😂

Oh my dc love their Christmas pjs and bedding! And I don't mind because it's in their own rooms! We've actually let them each have their own little tree in their rooms some years so they can each decorate it according to their own dreadful taste, and they love being tucked up in there with their Christmas bedding and garish coloured tree lights. It's fun for them.

She does what now?!😮 that is possibly the most insane thing I have heard in a while! It does explain how some people always have perfectly matching gifts under the tree though, I always thought they were super organised people that coordinated with friends and family 😆

That's a harmless hobby.

Gonks and nutcracker ornaments. I like the nutcracker ballet but the ornaments look sinister. (So does Herr Drosselmeyer)

ah im your idea of hell 😂
my tree is all the same colour scheme of wood, white, deep red, with warm lights. tinsel is banned, even my presents get wrapped in brown paper or white paper to match 😬
i hate naff and multicoloured ornaments or lights, although the kids do have their own tree in the hallway they can put their 'tat' on

all the presents we buy get wrapped in colour co-ordinated paper to match the tree. they go under the main tree.
any one elses presents in bright colourful paper get put under the kids 'tat' filled tree 😂

Everything cheap and tacky, mismatched, inflatable, flashing noise marking, no colored lights/baubles, elves, Santa's etc.and as little glitter as possible.

The whole colourfully lit up like Santa's grotto with inflatable reindeer crap is awful.

I like one normal size tree, artificial, warm white likes, one color scheme, tastefully and simple.

Maybe some seasonally scented candles and holly/mistletoe etc.

The first time she did it I was actually a little put out as I had made an effort wrapping them nicely and she tore it all off and rewrapped them before Christmas Day. Now I just ask her what it is to be and have a giggle to myself.

I'm not keen on artificial trees.

@Cinaferna I’m exactly the same…so I ended up buying some old fashioned coloured lights that I use in the hallway. It’s one of my favourite displays now 🥰

Neither am I, but I'd sooner have one of them than spend several weeks watching a real one die.

@LillyPJ agreed, no fake tree however expensive lives up to the look of a real tree.
Unfortunately the smell of a real Christmas tree gives me a migraine (even the ones that aren’t supposed to have a smell etc) so we have to stick to a fake one.

I only have my tree up for two weeks at most so they are fine.