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'🤣

Your attitude is, I think, absolutely spot-on: it should be about people celebrating as they choose and indulging their own aesthetic ( I can visualise the unicorn ice-cream thing!)

Even though it's not our aesthetic, we do enjoy driving round to look at the areas where the houses are decorated with all the coloured lights, blow-up santas etc, and usually make an evening of it. When the dc were a bit younger we would put them in their Christmas pjs and drive round to look when it got dark, then stop to pick up an ice cream from the 9 to 9 on the way home, and it is still quite a tradition in our house minus the pjs. That said, hell will freeze over before I have a string of coloured lights or an inflatable in my garden.

Christmas should be about enjoyment and everyone having their own traditions.

there is a house in a nearby village that has these up all year round!!

You'd have liked my tree the year before last then - whole ballet theme going on, about 20 little Nutcrackers, Clara, Mouse King, white swan, black swan (well chuffed when I found that one), some baubles dd bought me from the Royal Opera House shop, a bluebird, ballerina figures, glittery pointe shoes, tutus, the lot. Even a flamingo (as in Royal Ballet Alice in Wonderland).

I do draw the line at 4 foot tall nutcracker figures though.

Last year was more of a nature theme, holly, berries, icicles, snowflakes, ivy, robins, pine cones, little animals etc.

This year I'm going retro/70's naff. I've still got some really old decorations and coloured lights so we'll see how it goes.

Fake snow - whether its the spray stuff for windows or that cotton wool stuff that gets put over trees.
Christmas duvet covers- nobody us visiting my room so it doesn't need soft furnishings you only use for one week a year .
Christmas pyjamas - ditto.
For me it's something that is missing from most households. - a nativity scene.

Yes, I would have loved it.

Me too. Too cold.

Out of interest, do you recycle them another year at some point, or sell them on?

Lametta made a sharp exit from my house the year our cat very nearly choked to death on a piece of it. I used to love the stuff, but not after that.

I agree about cold white lights and blue lights. I like a warm amber-white glow especially for the outdoor lights inflicted on everyone else. But I do love 70s style decs of multicoloured fairy lights and lots of tinsel. I know it's bad taste but it reminds me of childhood Christmases.

Each to their own. However…!:
Trees so overloaded you can’t see the tree for the baubles and bows. They may be super stylish but I don’t find them homely at all.
Elf on the shelf. Commercial claptrap.
Twinkly lights are fine, flashing; not so much
A friend’s husband was approached by a neighbour for ‘letting the side down’ because he didn’t have any lights outside. He bought a massive illuminated ‘BAH HUMBUG’ sign. ‘There you go Kev. Fixed it for ya mate’.

The tree - can be (a good) fake, can be real, but it has to be green. No weird pink/black/white/blue trees.

Dark, 'cold' decorations on a said green tree. So black/green/blue baubles, etc.

I like a very generously decorated tree. Not 'footballers wives' level when you cannot see the damn thing at all, but sparse/Scandi-style with couple of straws and berries hanging about is not for me either.

Blue lights. White too. Warm yellow is best, not a fan of colourful, but would do at a push. Blinking/twinkling is fine with me.

Mostly I dislike fake trees and a matchy matchy themed trees all within a ‘colour palette’, so corporate and impersonal.
we don’t have tinsel on the tree but I do remember lametta - blast from the past -
godawful stuff that was!

Can’t stand all the Chucky elf nonsense either.

Tinsel tat - no
cool white lights - no
Matching family christmas pyjamas- no

Inflatable Santa, Snowman and other cartoonish ghastliness. Any of that "Santa Stop Here" shite. Tinsel, so passe.

Former workmate used to have a different theme/colour scheme for her tree and decs each year. Then bin them and start again, shocking waste. My kids favourite thing is seeing all the old tree decs each year, stuff they made at school etc (only the tasteful bits mind, the rest mysteriously disappears!)

As much as I love a tacky retro Christmas I just can’t deal with the foil hanging decs, and paper chains… my mum has the kids do them every year but they give me the ick.

Me neither .. they look like a coffin, they really creep me out.

Door bows
Artificial trees
Matching/carefully coordinated tree ornaments
Feathers on trees
Grey/silver/taupe/beige everything, or indeed any single-colour Christmas decor
Disney decor
Decorations going up before 1 December/start of advent
Decorations coming down before twelfth night

Ice white fairy lights. Warm white are ok but I'd never have them, it's got to be multicoloured. Same with the outdoor fairylights.

Colour schemes / themes for Christmas trees, no, these look nice in shops but I much prefer a colourful mix of all sorts at home.

Those tiny village scenes they have in garden centres

i love the smell of tinsel though

We always have some - not too much - on our real tree. We call it ‘icicles’. They shiver/shimmer and catch the light.

Any light that isn't warm white
Any tree, garland, or wreath that isn't real
Glitter baubles
Any decorations that aren't in festive colors (well, for baubles I don't mind, but my husband once bought Christmas cushions which were in Autumnal colors and I have never got them out)
Tinsel

Multicoloured everything. Makes my eyes and my brain ache.

TBH, I'd rather just have natural foraged stuff. Holly, wreathes and green boughs with white lights strung through them. But I put up with the colourful crap because the children love it all.

HRTFT but who the fuck came up with those enormous stuffed Christmas rats?

Gonks. Hideous things