Did anyone do a shrouded / veiled Christmas tree this year?

[Slightyamusedandsilly]

I quite like the look of them. Might go for it next year.

We definitely had an advent calendar in the late 1960’s when I was at primary school, with just pictures.

You know, the shrouded Christmas tree trend could be the perfect vehicle to showcase your dislike of all these modern Christmas trends.

Picture it now:

Instead of an angel, an Elf on The Shelf sits atop the shrouded tree. Mummified in cobwebs like Frodo in Shelob's lair, it stares down at your Christmas visitors, frozen forever in a silent scream.

At the foot of the tree, in a coffin comprised of a Christmas Eve box, lies the lurid green corpse of a Grinch. Even in death, he smirks. He alone is in on the joke.

Some distance away, a clutch of taxidermied robins lie feet up in a patch of glitter-and-oat "reindeer food". Dead on Christmas morning, the poor things. Microplastics. They never stood a chance 😔

And so on. You could make a whole morbid tableau! A commentary on how commercialism has killed modern Christmas 😂

I still get one with just pictures every year

I had an advent calendar as a child. Not the chocolate ones that we get today but one with a picture behind each door.

I managed to find the holy grail this year. M&S did a chocolate one with a nativity scene on the front and a picture behind each door. It also had the story of the nativity on the back of the door.

I get the ones with pictures and no chocolate ..

With the what now?

Existential chic...

It really does look awful....

I genuinely have no idea what these are.

Am I missing something?

Edit: I remember now. A ‘Christmas Box’ meant the money one gave the dustmen, in the days when they lugged heavy galvanised metal bins on their shoulders, from the back of your house to the street. No mechanical lifting arms, black bags, or rules about what you could put in the concept bins then.

The ‘Christmas Box’ had the magical effect of preventing an ‘accident’ whereby half the contents became tipped onto your garden path. 🙄

This sounds ideal.

But I’m ahead of you: This has been our ‘Christmas angel’ for at least 20 years. 😀

That’s awful

well of course AND they arer still available.

Based on the way Holly Ramsay rocked up yesterday, I guess her tree looks like this.

No, that looks awful to me, like a cross between Halloween and Christmas! I don't understand why you'd dull the lights, baubles and tinsel by covering it up with a net curtain! 🤣

Swaddle your bush

It's not my cup of tea but each to their own I guess? I would be concerned of a fire risk though, how safe is it??

First time I’ve even seen it. Looks utterly ridiculous so absolutely not 🤣

😅😂😅

It looks like the tree is still in its amniotic sac waiting to be born. Too on the nose for Christmas IMO

It reminded me of the Peaty wedding

No. Looks like it's just been left like that since last xmas and someone cba removing the decorations!

Threads like this are the reason Mumsnet exists 🤣

No it won't. It's ugly and ridiculous.

Creepy as hell